Chapter 17 Flashcards
allied powers
Great Britian
France
Unite states
Soviet Union
Axis powers
Germany
Italy
Japan
Appeasement
Satisfying reasonable demands of dissatisfied powers in an effort to to maintain peace and stability
Imperialism
The extension of a nations power over other lands
Expansionists policy
A practice of expansion usually expansion by a nation. Sometimes with military power
Isolationism
A doctrine that seizes one country from the affairs of other nations by declining to enter into alliances
Blitzkrieg
Sudden military attack used by Germans
Neutrality
Not taking sides in war
Luftwaffe
Nazi Air Force in WW1
Island hopping
A campaign to capture the pacific islands, advancing twoards Japan
Mobilization
Crating troops and supplies for war
Total war
Involved complete mobilization and it affected all lives of citizens
Kamikaze
Suicide mission where japenese flew their planes into U.S. ships
Liberation
Being set from free or to be free
Alliance
An agreement between two or more countries to work together twoards a common goal