Aggressors On The March Flashcards

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Great depression

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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.

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Emperor Hirohito

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And extreme nationalist who wanted to solve economic problems he planned a pacific empire

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Manchuria

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Area in northern China that was seized by the Japanese army in 1931

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Rape of Nanking

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When Japanese forces captured many other northern metropolises killing tens of thousands of captures soldiers and civilians in Nanjing

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Ethiopia

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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

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Rhineland

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A border area between Germany and France

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Munich conference

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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

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Neville Chamberlain

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British prime minister who wanted to preserve peace, so he reached an agreement with Hitler to avoid fighting

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Appeasement

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The making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war, making peace with a bad guy to avoid war

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Winston Churchhill

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A member of the British Parliament who strongly disagreed with the appeasement policy that prime minister Neville Chamberlain had agreed to with Hitler

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Axis powers

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In World War II the nations of Germany Italy and Japan formed an alliance in 1936

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Third Reich

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German Empire led by Hitler

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Sudetenland

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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

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Austria

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A country that Hitler’s army invaded in 1939

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Czechoslovakia

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Another country that ordered Germany and it was evidently invaded and taken over by Hitler

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Isolationism

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A policy where a country resist getting involved in other political issues in other countries

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Nazi Soviet nonaggression pact

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Hitler and Stalin find the Nazi Soviet nonaggression pact in 1939 a green to never attack one another and divided Poland between Russia and Germany

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League of Nations

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An international Association formed after World War I with the goal of keeping peace among nations

19
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Danzig

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A port in Poland that Hitler demanded be returned to Germany. The polls refused and turned to France and Britain for aid.