after wwii quiz Flashcards
Axis Powers
group of countries that opposed the Allied powers in WWII; included Germany, Italy, Japan
Allies
group of countries that opposed the Axis powers; included Great Britain, France, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, USSR, USA
The Mukden Incident
*staged event engineered by Japanese military personnel as a pretext for the Japanese invasion of 1931 in Northeastern China (Manchuria)
Rape of Nanking
Japanese conquest and destruction of the Chinese city of Nanking in the 1930s; Japanese army forces killed hundreds of thousands Chinese soldiers and civilians
November Crime
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Hitler
German politician who was the leader of Nazi party, and was responsible for largest human genocide in history; very anti-semitic
Anschluss
term used to describe annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany on March 12, 1938
appeasement
British and French policy in the 1930s that tried to maintain peace in Europe in the face of German aggression by making concessions
Neville Chamberlain
*British conservative politician who served as prime minister of the UK from May 1937-May 1940
Munich Conference
1938 meeting between Germany, Great Britain, Italy, and France in which attendees agreed to German expansion in Czechoslovakia; part of policy of appeasement that led Hitler to believe he had a free hand in Europe
German-Russian Treaty of Nonaggression
*Russian-German treaty which said that there would be no military action for the next 10 years against each other; signed August 23, 1939
Blitzkrieg
German style of rapid attack through the use of armor and air power that was used in Poland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, and France in 1939-1940
u-boats
*German submarine
Operation Barbarossa
code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941; Germany lost
Battle of Britain
military campaign when the Royal Air Force defended the UK against the German Air Force attacks at the end of June 1940
Winston Churchill
*British Politician who was prime minister of the UK from 1940-1945 and 1951-1955
The Final Solution
Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews; introduced by Heinrich Himmler and administered by Adolf Eichmann; policy resulted in hte murder of 6 million Jews in camps between 1941-1945
The SS
major parliamentary organization under Hitler in Nazi Germany
The Vichy gov’t
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Pearl Harbor
major US naval base in Hawaii that was attacked without warning by the Japanese air force on December 7, 1941
D-Day
The Day (June 6, 1944) during WWII when the Allied Powers invaded northern France by means of beach landing in Normandy
kamikaze
Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target
Hiroshima + Nagasaki
cities destroyed in WWII when American airplanes dropped atomic bombs on them August 1945
