Aggressors On The March Flashcards
Great depression
A lawn business slump or depression that followed the stock market crash of 1929. It began in America but touched all parts of the world soon after.
Emperor Hirohito
And extreme nationalist who wanted to solve economic problems he planned a pacific empire
Manchuria
Area in northern China that was seized by the Japanese army in 1931
Rape of Nanking
When Japanese forces captured many other northern metropolises killing tens of thousands of captures soldiers and civilians in Nanjing
Ethiopia
One of four independent nations after Africa is partition in 1884 and it successfully resisted Italian expansion during the 1890s, but in 1935 Emily sent a massive invasion of forces to the area
Rhineland
A border area between Germany and France
Munich conference
Took place in 1938 British prime minister Neville Chamberlain believe giving into Hitler would preserve peace agreement was reached that Hitler retain the Sudetenland in exchange for respect of Czechoslovakia’s borders
Neville Chamberlain
British prime minister who wanted to preserve peace, so he reached an agreement with Hitler to avoid fighting
Appeasement
The making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war, making peace with a bad guy to avoid war
Winston Churchhill
A member of the British Parliament who strongly disagreed with the appeasement policy that prime minister Neville Chamberlain had agreed to with Hitler
Axis powers
In World War II the nations of Germany Italy and Japan formed an alliance in 1936
Third Reich
German Empire led by Hitler
Sudetenland
Western border regions of Czechoslovakia with 3 million German-speaking people lived in the 1930s this heavily fortified area for the checks main defense against Germany
Austria
A country that Hitler’s army invaded in 1939
Czechoslovakia
Another country that ordered Germany and it was evidently invaded and taken over by Hitler