Key Terms for SS11 WW2 Unit
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| 524699814 | Totalitarianism | the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government | |
| 524699815 | Benito Mussolini | ...was the fascist ruler of Italy in 1922. Mussolini was known as "the leader" | |
| 524699816 | March on Rome | ... | |
| 524699817 | Weimar Republic | ..., Was the democratic government which ruled over Germany form 1919 to 1933. Was Germany's first democracy and it failed miserably. It had leaders such as Stresseman and Hindenburg. | |
| 524699818 | Inflation | increased prices for goods and services combined with the reduced value of money | |
| 524699819 | Adolf Hitler | ...Nazi Dictator of Germany during WW2 | |
| 524699820 | Nazi | A member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, founded in Germany in 1919 and brought to power in 1933 under Adolf Hitler. | |
| 524699821 | Anti-Semitism | The intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish people. | |
| 524699822 | Scapegoat | ...The Germans used Jews as scapegoats-they blamed the Jews for their economic problems. | |
| 524699823 | Enabling Act | ...On March 23rd, 1933, the German parliament (the Reichstag) met in the Kroll opera house in Berlin to consider passing passing Hitlers enabling act. It was officially called the "Law for Removing the Distress of the people and the Reich.' When passed, it would effectively mean the end of democracy in Germany and established the legal dictatorship of Adolf Hitler. | |
| 524699824 | Night of the Long Knives | ...Was the purge of Adolf Hitlers political opponents in Nazi Germany in 1934 The Night of the Long Knives or "Operation Hummingbird", was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany between June 30th and July 2nd, 1934, When the Nazi regime carried out a series of political executions. Most of those killed were members of the sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary Brownshirts | |
| 524699825 | Nurembrug Laws | ... | |
| 524699826 | Kristallnacht | November 9, 1938, Nazis looted and destroyed Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues and arrested thousands of Jews in Germany and Austria. Also called Night of the Broken Glass. | |
| 524699827 | Gestapo | the secret police in Nazi Germany | |
| 524699828 | Fuher | ..., German word for leader | |
| 524699829 | Five Year Plans | Soviet economic practice designed to rapidly increase agricultural and industrial output for a limited period of five years. Joseph Stalin launched the first Five-Year Plan, aiming to make the USSR self-sufficient. It emphasized heavy industry and lead to a widespread famine. | |
| 524699830 | The Great Terror | During the late 1930s, Stalin launched the Great Terror in an attempt to get rid of the people accused of sabotage, terrorism, or treachery in the Communist Party. This was extended to the military and other sectors of Soviet society. It included executions, imprisonments in labor camps, and exiling the traitors. | |
| 524699831 | Appeasement | ...Leaders of Western Countries were worried about having to fight another war. Many were willing to give Hitler some of what he wanted to avoid war. | |
| 524699832 | Nazi-Soviet Pact | Treaty of non-aggression between Germany and the Soviet Union in effect from August 23, 1939 to June 22, 1941, when the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union. | |
| 524699833 | Blitzkrieg | ...Means "lightning war". It took place as surprise attacks with German tanks and troops crashing through enemy lines on the ground, while bombing from above. The 7 month long "Phony War" was broken by the Blitzkrieg. | |
| 524699834 | Conscription | .Men were forced into military service... | |
| 524699835 | Phony War | ... | |
| 524699836 | Evacuation of Dunkirk | ...Also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk; 1942; evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbours of Dunkirk | |
| 524699837 | British Royal Air Force | ...RAF - England's Air Force | |
| 524699838 | Luftwaffe | ...German Air Force | |
| 524699839 | Battle of Britain | . (July-October, 1940) Fought between Britain and Germany, and was the first major allied victory... | |
| 524699840 | The Blitz | ...sustained strategic bombing of the UK by Germany between September 7, 1940 and May 21, 1941 | |
| 524699841 | Dieppe | ...(August 1942) Allied raid on a German port. Although none of the major objectives were achieved it was considered a "necessary evil" | |
| 524699842 | Operation Barbarossa | ... Code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union. Although the Germans made a good advance, they were eventually pushed back from Moscow and failed the invasion. | |
| 524699843 | Battle of El Alamein | There were 2 battles of El Alamein, the first was fought on the northern coast of Egypt between the Axiz adn Allies. Thebattle was a stalemate. The Axis were still to close to Alexandria so it required a second battle at El Alamein. The second battle lasted 20 days. The Allies won, ending the Axis threat. | |
| 524699844 | Battle of the Atlantic | It was the longest continouos military campaign in WW2, went from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945. It was a battle of the Germans fighting to cut off the merchant convoys from reaching Britain. | |
| 524699845 | U-Boats | An underwater boat (submarine) that was used in both WW1 & WW2 by the Germans. Their primary use was to sink enemy naval ships and merchant convoys bringing supplies from Canada to Britain. | |
| 524699846 | Convoys | A group of vehicles traveling together fro support and protection against enemy attacks. | |
| 524699847 | Royal Canadian Navy | provided about half the escorts across the Atlantic during World War 2 | |
| 524699848 | Corvettes | Small warships made by Canada to escort convoys across the ocean. | |
| 524699849 | Sonar | Method used to detect and locate objects submerged in water. | |
| 524699850 | Battle of Stalingrad | A major battle in World War II which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of Stalingrad (July 17, 1942- February 2, 1943) | |
| 524699851 | Italian Campaign | ...best way for the allies to recapture Europe was through the "soft underbelly" of Europe- Italy and Sicily. The allies advance through Italy was difficult but on June 6th 1944 the took Rome | |
| 524699852 | Vandoos | ...royal 22nd regiment from Quebec, they fought in both wars, they fought with distinction in the Italian campaign | |
| 524699853 | Operation Overlord | ..., the code name for the Allied invasion of Europe at Normandy on June 6, 1944; also known as D-Day | |
| 524699854 | Juno Beach | ..., Canadian landing beach during the Normandy invasion. Canadians penetrated about 9 km inland by the end of D-Day. | |
| 524699855 | V-E Day | ..., May 8, 1945; victory in Europe Day when the Germans surrendered | |
| 524699856 | Pearl Harbour | A harbor on Oahu to the west of Honolulu; location of a United States naval base that was surprise attacked by the Japanese on 7 Dec 1941. | |
| 524699857 | Prisoner of War | A person who surrenders to (or is taken by) the enemy in time of war. | |
| 524699858 | Battle of Midway | ...In June 4,1942 Japan tried to make a base in Midway Island, but the US found out and the US Air Force attacked Japanese forces. The US Air force sank four Japanese Carriers. The Japanese withdrew. The Battle of Midway was the turning point of World War II in the pacific. | |
| 524699859 | Island Hopping | ...Allied strategy of capturing Japanese held islands to gain control of the Pacific. | |
| 524699860 | Manhattan Project | ...code name for the American project set up in 1942 to develop an atom bomb. | |
| 524699861 | Hiroshima | ...On Augest 6th 1945. A US bomber (nick named Enola Gay) dropped an atomic bomb over japanese city in Hiroshima. The destruction that happened had never been before. The bomb was named little boy. | |
| 524699862 | Nagasaki | ...Three days after the bombing of hiroshima a second bomb was dropped in nagasaki Japan. The japaneae realized that they could not withstand this new weapon and surrendered. WW2 was over. | |
| 524699863 | V-J Day | ...The day when Japan surrendered. Victory over Japan day. (August 15, 1945 & Sept. 2, 1945) | |
| 524699864 | Canadian Women's Army Corps | ..., official women's branch of the army | |
| 524699865 | RCAF Womens' Division | ..., official womens branches of the air force | |
| 524699866 | Wrens | ..., Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service; Official women's branch of the navy; Many served as mechanics welders, assigned to coastal defenses | |
| 524699867 | War Supply Board | ... | |
| 524699868 | Lend Lease Act | Replaced cash and carry; allowed Britain to borrow US war materials | |
| 524699869 | Hyde Park Declaration | Declaration that included Canada in the Lend Lease Act | |
| 524699870 | Propaganda | ...he Nazis would present selected information in order to make people think and act as they wanted them to and to gain support for their policies. | |
| 524699871 | British Commonwealth Air Training Plan | The Canadian hosted air-training for British pilots | |
| 524699872 | Camp X | ..., Spy camp set up in Ontario after Japan bombed Pearl Harbour. Trained Allied spies. | |
| 524699873 | National Resource Mobilization Act | PM King did not want to introduce 'conscription' - compulsory military service. Required all men to help with the war, but not necessarily to serve overseas. | |
| 524699874 | Plebiscite | a direct vote in which a country's people have the opportunity to approve or reject a proposal | |
| 524699875 | Enemy Aliens | A label assigned during World War 1 and World War 2 to people from countries that were at war with Canada. The rights of enemy aliens were sometimes restricted, and some were even interned in camps. | |
| 524699876 | Internment Camps | Detention centers where more than 100,000 Japanese Americans were relocated during World War II by order of the President. | |
| 524699877 | Custodian of Aliens Act | In 1943, the Canadian "Custodian of Aliens" liquidated all possessions belonging to the 'enemy aliens'. | |
| 524699878 | Holocaust | Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, esp. caused by fire or nuclear war: "a nuclear holocaust". The mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime during the period 1941-45. | |
| 524699879 | St. Louis Incident | A boat carrying 900 Jews landed in Halifax in 1939 but was denied access into Canada. The ship had to return to Europe and most of the passengers died in concentration camps. | |
| 524699880 | Ghettos | A part of a city where Jews where supposed to live | |
| 524699881 | Final Solution | the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler | |
| 524699882 | Genocide | systematic killing of a racial or cultural group | |
| 524699883 | Auschwitz | a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in southwestern Poland during World War II | |
| 524699884 | Nuremberg Trials | ..., Series of trials in 1945 conducted by an International Military Tribunal in which former Nazi leaders were charged with crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, and war crimes | |
| 524699885 | Tehran | Conference of President Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Tehran to meet about strengthening the corporation of United States, Britain, and USSR in WWII | |
| 524699886 | Yalta | Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill held a conference in February 1945 to plan the final stages of WWII and agreed to the territorial division in Europe | |
| 524699887 | Potsdam | American, British, and Soviet leaders drew up plans for the postwar administration of Germany and appointed many conquered territories to Poland. |
