Chapter 22 Flashcards
Communist dictator of the Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin
“Lightning war”
Blitzkrieg
The famous German “desert fox”
Erwin Rommel
June 6, 1944
D-day
Dictator of Fascist Italy
Benito Mussolini
Commander of all American Forces in the Far East
Douglas MacArthur
Dictator of Nazi Germany
Adolph Hitler
Attempt to satisfy a dictator by giving in to his demands
Appeasement
An agreement between Russia and Germany allowing Russia to take some of the Baltic property in exchange for Germany being allows to take part of Poland
Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
Military head of Japan
Hideki Togo
The battle that was the bloodiest single campaign in the Pacific
Okinawa
Nationalistic, totalitarian mass movement
Fascism
Policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other countries
Isolation
British prime minister
Winston Churchill
Hitler’s book that proposed to eliminate all Jews, end democracy in Germany, and create a new German order.
Mein Kampf
Placement of people in detention camps
Internment
British champion of appeasement
Neville Chamberlin
Germany army
Wehrmacht
Republican candidate for president in 1940
Wendell Wilkie
Act empowered the president to supply any Allied nation on almost any terms he wished
Lend-lease act
Agreement between Churchill and Roosevelt listed their “common principles “ and goals on the war effort?
Atlantic Charter
Winter battle did the Nazis counterattack against the Allied invasion of Europe, almost stopping the advance into Germany
Battle of the Bulge
Allied strategy for the defeat of Japan
Island Hopping
Japanese suicide pilot
Kamikazes
Warfare that was mainly air combat over England
Battle of Britain
British commander helped to defeat the Germans in North Africa
Bernard Montgomery
Section of northern France did the Allied Expeditionary Force land in 1944
Normandy
December 7, 1941
Pearl Harbor
US president during the most of World War II
Franklin Roosevelt
Supreme Allied Commander in Europe
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Country German soldiers invaded, beginning WWII
Poland
Cities in Japan bombed by United States
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Bomb that derives its destructive power from the rapid release of nuclear energy
Atomic bomb
Government limitations on the purchase of scarce goods.
Rationing
Massacre of millions of Jews and other people that the Nazis considered lesser people
Holocaust
The Union of Austria and Germany
Anschluss
