Ch. 22 Flashcards
land and sea
Amphibious
war cry shouted by Japanese troops
Banzai
Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin
Big three
“lightning war”; fast-moving attack that sought to penetrate enemy lines
Blitzkrieg
the day when an attack is to be launched; June 6, 1944, the day that the Allied forces invaded France
D-day
Nazi secret police
Gestapo
Japanese suicide pilots
Kamikaze
“living space”; Hitler’s early reason for expanding German territory
Lebensraum
Act of Congress authorizing the president to “sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or other- wise dispose of” military supplies to any country whose security was important to the United State
Lend-lease act
Nazi Germany’s air force
Luftwaffe
code name for the Allied invasion of France during World War II
Operation Overlord
British Royal Air Force
RAF
forbidding the sale of certain materials to a country
Sanctions
administrative arm of the United Nations
Secreatariat
empire of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945
Third Reich
an international organization founded in 1945 that seeks the maintenance of international peace and security
United Nations
area of France unoccupied by Nazi Germany; Vichy became the seat of the new government
Vichy France
meeting between Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin that recognized Soviet control of eastern Europe
Yalta conference
