chapter 32 Flashcards
- Nonaggression pact
An agreement which nations promise they would not attack each other.
- Blitzkrieg
“lightning war.” It involved using fast-moving airplanes and tanks, followed by massive infantry forces, to take enemy defenders by surprise and quickly overwhelm them.
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- Charles de Gaulle
“French general, set up a government-in-exile in London. He committed all his energy to reconquering France. In a radio broadcast from England, de Gaulle called on the people of France to join him in resisting the Germans:”
- Winston Churchill
“British prime minister, had already declared that his nation would never give in. In a rousing speech, he proclaimed, “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets . . . we shall never surrender.” ”
- Battle of Britain (aka “London Blitz”)
A series of air battles fought by the Germans and the British on British land in 1940-1941
- Atlantic Charter
“It upheld free trade among nations and the right of people to choose their own government. The charter later served as the Allies’ peace plan at the end of World War II.”
- Pearl Harbor
“ A Japanese attack was underway! U.S. military leaders had known from a coded Japanese message that an attack might come. But they did not know when or where it would occur. Within two hours, the Japanese had sunk or damaged 19 ships, including 8 battleships, moored in Pearl Harbor. More than 2,300 Americans were killed—with over 1,100 wounded. News of the attack stunned the American people. The next day, President Roosevelt addressed Congress. December 7, 1941, he declared, was “a date which will live in infamy.” Congress quickly accepted his request for a declaration of war on Japan and its allies.
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Excerpt From: Roger B. Beck, Linda Black, Larry S. Kreiger, Phillip C. Naylor & Dahia Ibo Shabaka. “World History.” v2.0. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. iBooks.
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- Battle of Midway
A sea and air battle in which the Americans forces defeated Japanese forces in the central pacific
- Douglas MacArthur
“the commander of the Allied land forces in the Pacific, developed a plan to handle this problem
- Battle of Guadalcanal
1942-1943 a battle of world war 2 which the allies drove the Japanese forces out of Guadalcanal island, Japanese named this island “ the island of death “
- Aryans
“were a “master race.” (This was a misuse of the term Aryan. The term actually refers to the Indo-European peoples who began to migrate into the Indian subcontinent around 1500 B.C.) The Nazis claimed that all non-Aryan peoples, particularly Jewish people, were inferior. ”
- Holocaust
“the systematic mass slaughter of Jews and other groups judged inferior by the Nazis.
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- Kristallnacht
” Night of Broken Glass” the night of November 9, 1938, on which Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues throughout Germany.
- Ghettos
City neighborhoods in which city Jews were forced to live.
- “Final Solution”
Hitler s program of systematically killing the entire Jewish population
