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= __**Key People!!!!!:**__ = __Winston Churchill__: he was the prime minster of Britain for the beginning of the war. Was allied with the United States of America and USSR. __‍Dwight D. Eisenhower__: United States general who was the commander of the Allied forces in Europe. He also later became the president of the United States. __Hirohito__: emperor of Japan during War. Eventually had to surrender Japan in the war. __Adolf Hitler__: Leader of Nazi Germany from 1933-1945. He used a Fascist government and was a ruthless leader. He changed Germany from a country in ruins after World War 1, to a world power. __Benito Mussolini__: the fascist prime minister of Italy who ruled from 1922 until his murder in 1945. Mussolini and Hitler ran their country in similar ways, and teamed up with Japan to form the axis powers who would later go on and loose the second World War __‍Franklin Delano Roosevelt__: President of the Untied States during most of the war, Roosevelt formed the Allied powers with Stalin and Churchill, and later became victorious in WWII. He later died in 1945 months before the war was over. __Joseph Stalin__: leader of the Communist Party in the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). He was a strict dictator of the USSR and he aligned with the other Allied powers during the second world war. The only reason for this odd partnership with America was because of the mutuall hatred of Hitler and Mussolini. __Harry S Truman__: He was the Vise President to FDR for most of the war. He became president after Roosevelt’s death. He is most notably known for his decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan to end the war. __Neville Chamberlain__: the prime minister of Britain from1937 to 1940. He was known for appeasing Hitler’s demands. He constantly gave into what Hitler wanted and failed at trying to stop him when he took more than the Rhineland and the Sudetenland. Hitler

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**__Key Terms!!!!!:__**
__Allied Powers:__ An alliance during World War II made up of the countries that opposed the aggression of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Japan. Britain, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union were the most prominent members, along with other countries. __Axis Powers:__ An collective alliance in World War II made up of Germany, Italy, and Japan. They were in opposition to the allied Powers. Along with several smaller nations which had been taken over through Hitler’s aggression. __Appeasement:__ The British and French policy of conceding to Adolf Hitler’s territorial demands prior to the outbreak of World War II. Associated primarily with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, the appeasement policy enabled Hitler to systematically take over the territories of several neighboring countries. __Blitzkrieg:__ Literally meaning “lightning war,” the term for Hitler’s invasion strategy of attacking a nation suddenly and with overwhelming force. Which he used most notably against Poland, France, and the Soviet Union. __D-Day:__ June 6, 1944, the day on which the Allied invasion of France via the Normandy coast began. __Fascism:__ A system of government dominated through the use of the countries military and generally commanded by a single dictator. Several Fascist governments were established in Europe in the early twentieth century, most notably those of Germany and Italy. __Communism:__ A system of government which has control on basically all your belonging. You work as a whole and share most of what you have. Soviet Union was the prominent Communist Country in World War II. __Munich Agreement:__ September 30, 1938, agreement among Germany, Britain, Italy, and France that allowed Germany to annex the region of western Czechoslovakia called the Sudetenland. __Island Hopping__: taking control of small islands to slowly gain a path to a larger goal.

**__Important Battles!!!!!:__**
__Battle of Britain:__ An extended campaign from July 1940 to the spring of 1941 in which British air forces fought off wave after wave of German bombers and denied Germany in its quest to attain air superiority over Britain. Although major cities in England sustained heavy damage, the British resistance forced Germany to abandon its plans to invade across the English Channel. __Battle of El-Alamein:__ An October and November 1942 battle that was the climax of the North African campaign. A resounding victory by the British over the Germans, the battle paved the way for the Allied takeover of North Africa and the retreat of German forces back across the Mediterran __Battle of Midway:__ A battle from June 3–6, 1942, in which U.S. naval forces severely disabled the Japanese fleet at Midway Island in the Pacific. Coming close on the heels of the Battle of the Coral Sea, the Battle of Midway forced Japan into defensive mode and turned the tide of the war in the Pacific theater. __Battle of Stalingrad:__ A brutal, five-month battle between German and Soviet forces for the important industrial city of Stalingrad that resulted in the deaths of almost 2 million people. The battle involved very destructive air raids by the German Luftwaffe and bloody urban street fighting. In February 1943, despite direct orders from Hitler forbidding it, Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrendered the German forces to the Red Army.

= __FUN FACTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!__ =

__ World War II Deaths!!!!!: __
Allied Military-25% Allied Civilians-58% Axis Military-13% Axis Civilians-4%

__World War 11 Axis Power Military Deaths!!!!!:__
Germany-64% Japan-24% Italy-4% Romania-4% Hungary-4% Bulgaria-<0.3%

__Word O' day!!!!!:__

 * 1) Surreptitious: marked by quiet and caution; avoid secrecy
 * 2) Opulent: characterized by rich abundance verging on ostentation
 * 3) Conformist: to blend, to adopt
 * 4) Fastidious: meticulous, demanding, having high and often unattainable standards
 * 5) Concession: the act of conceding or giving in/compromising/yielding
 * 6) Appeasement: give in to demands of aggressors
 * 7) Hegemony: control, domination, supremacy, authority
 * 8) Conscription: draft, enrollment
 * 9) Impetuous: characterized by undue haste and lack of thought of deliberation; impulsive
 * 10) Moratorium: legally authorized period of suspension, freeze or delay
 * 11) Cordial: friendly, pleasant, affable, amiable
 * 12) Ominous: threatening, menacing, gloomy
 * 13) Fervor: intensity of feeling or expression, passion, enthusiasm, zeal
 * 14) Plausible: reasonable, believable, possible, probable
 * 15) Indigent: poor; needy; impoverished; destitute
 * 16) Exacerbate: to make worse; or aggravate
 * 17) Disseminate: to spread, disperse, broadcast something (esp. information)
 * 18) Disillusioned: having lost one's ideals, illusions, or false ideas, about someone or something; disenchanted
 * 19) Secular: wordly, nonreligious, nonspiritual
 * 20) Succinct: to be brief, concise, or to the point in writing or speech
 * 21) Sever: separate, disunite, part, divide
 * 22) Gregarious: instinctively or temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others
 * 23) Provincial: of or associated with a province
 * 24) Cursory: hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
 * 25) Disarmament: act of reducing or depriving of arms
 * 26) Belligerent: characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight

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