Ch 17 names and terms Flashcards
Giving in to the demands of an aggressor in order to keep the peace
Appeasement
Opposition to war
Pacifism
Laws that forbade the sale of arms to any nation at war
Neutrality Acts
Germany, Italy, Japan
Axis Powers
Conservative General in Spain who led a revolt that started a bloody civil war
Franciso Franco
Union of Austria and Germany
Anschluss
Region of Western Czechoslovakia that contained 3 million Germans
Sudentenland
Russia and Germany agreed not to fight one another but to divide up parts of Europe
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Lighting war
Blitzkrieg
German Air Force
Luftwaffle
A region in France where 300,000 British and French soldiers were rescued and ferried back to Britain
Dunkirk
Hitler set up a puppet state in Southern France with this as its capital
Vichy
One of Hitler’s best commanders and known as the Desert Fox
General Erwin Rommel
Detention centers for civilians considered to be enemies of the state
Concentration Camps
A period when Germany massacred 6 million Jewish people during WWII
Holocaust
This allowed the U.S to sell or lend war materials to any country whose defense the President deem vital to the defense of the U.S
Lend-Lease Act
Female character that built planes, warships, produced munitions, to show the vital part that women could play in the war at home
Rosie the Riveter
Ships that transport aircraft and accommodate the take-off and landing of airplanes
Aircraft Carriers
Supreme leader of the Allied Forces
Dwight Eisenhower
One of the most costliest defeats of WWII for Hitler in Germany
Stalingrad
The Allied assault of Normandy France on June 6th, 1944
D-Day
A conference where Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin agreed upon Russia entering the war in the Pacific
Yalta Conference
May 8th, 1945, Victory in Europe Day
V.E Day
65-mile forced march resulting in the deaths of many American and Filipino soldiers
Bataan Death March
To recapture some Japanese-held islands while bypassing others
Island-Hopping
Led the American forces in the Philippines and during the Island-Hopping period
Douglas MacArthur
Pilots who undertook suicide missions crashing their explosive-laden planes into American warships
Kamikaze
American codename for the operation to build the atomic bomb
Manhatten Project
Japanese city where the first atomic bomb was dropped
Hiroshima
Second Japanese city that was bombed using an atomic bomb
Nagasaki
