Chapter 22 Flashcards
Believed that Japan should take advantage of its position of strength and extend Japanese influence in the Pacific
Emperor Hirohito
The organizer of the Kuomintang or National Party, led to the revolt
Sun Yat-sen
Years of anarchy known as what who fought one another for political power
Warlords
Took control of the Kuomintang. Began a military campaign to reunite China under a national government
Chiang Kai-shek
Led the Communist forces
Mao Zedong
The seizing of the Balkan nation
April 1939
A new German Empire called
The Third Reich
Lebensraum means
“Living Space”
Germany’s march into Rhineland
March 7, 1936
Germany and Italy formed an alliance called
Rome-Berlin Axis
Germany and Japan signed this pact, which on the surface was an agreement generally directed against communism but in reality was aimed specifically at Russia
Anti-Comintern Pact
He revolted against Spain’s republican government
Francisco Franco
Prime-minister of Great Britain, met with Hitler several times to seek a solution to the Czech Crisis
Neville Chamberlain
Prime Minister of France
Edouard Daladier
Buying off an aggressor by making concessions
Appeasements
A member of the House of Commons, denounced appeasement
Winston Churchill
Connect East Prussia with the rest of Germany
Polish Corridor
Hitler and Mussolini signed a military Alliance know as what
The Pact of Steel
Germany’s superior airforce
Luftwaffe
Germany’s fast-moving attack
blitzkrieg
Sitting war
sitzkrieg
a term of war coined during the Spanish Civil War to refer to individuals within a country
fifth columnists
became the most notorious of the fifth columnists. His name is a synonym for traitor
Vidkun Quisling
France established this line to separate them from Germany
Maginot Line
A hero of World War , to head a new French government
Henri Petain
Joined the Free French Movement
Charles de Gaulle
Arrived in North Africa with specially trained German Forces. Also known as the Desert Fox
Erwin Rommel
Invasion by sea assault
Amphibious
Code name for the Invasion
Operation Sea Lion
An act authorizing the president to “sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend or dispose of” military supplies to any country
Lend-Lease Act
An eight-point document that set forth the “common principles” on which both countries.
Atlantic Charter
Virtual Dictator of Japan
Hideki Tojo
Defeated the Germans at the Battle of El Alamin
Bernard Montgomery
landed on the Algerian coast
Dwight D. Moody
Fighters who harass an enemy occupying their territory
Partisans
Who were the members of the Big Three
Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin
A plan to invade France
Operation Overlord
The day when an attack is launched
D-Day
“I shall return” helped the Philippines fight against the Japanese
Douglas MacArthur
So named because of the war cry shouted by the Japanese troops
banzai
Japanese suicide pilots
kamikaze
the battle that wasted much of Germany’s strength and probably hastened the end of the war in Europe
Battle of the Bulge
When was V-E day
May 8, 1945
