10.2 - Total War and the Home Front

Blitzkrieg
- lightening war
- rapid and intense assault
- German
comfort women
- Japanese women who were enslaved to serve the sexual desires of men on the war front
- 60k-200k girls & women were forced into this practice
- most taken from Korea
Holocaust
- systematic murdering of Jews & "undesirables" in Nazi Germany
- led to 6-11 million dead
internment of Japanese-Americans
Manhattan Project
- US scientific & industrial endeavor that led to the creation of the atomic bomb
Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact
night witches
- female pilots in the USSR
Rosie the Riveter
- became a symbol of women's power during the war