Chapter 5 Key Terms Flashcards
Totalitarian State
a dictatorship in which the government uses intimidation, vio-lence, and propaganda to rule all aspects of the social and poitical life of its citizens
Nazis
members af the National Socialist German Workers’ Party: the Nazis were extreme nationalists who took power in 1933 and controlled every aspect of German life through a police state
Holocaust
the Nazi imprisonment and murder of 6 million Jewish people and 5 milion other people during the Second World War
Policy of appeasement
giving in to an aggressors demands in the hopes that no more demands wil be made
British Commonwealth Air Training
Plan (BCATP)
a program to train pilots and aircrew during the Second World War; it produced haff of all Commonwealth aircrew and is the largest air training program in history
total war
the mobilization of the entire resources of a nation for war
Allies
countries fighting against Germany during the Second World War, including Britain, France, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and after 1941, the United States and the U.S.S.R.
Axis
alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan
Dunkirk
port town in France from which a massive Allied evacuation took place in May 1940, when German forces conquered France
Battle of Britain
an air campaign launched in 1940 by the Royal Air Force to stop the Germans from achieving air superiority
Pearl Harbor
the Japanese bombing of the
U.S. naval base in Hawali
Battle of Hong Kong
Japan’s attack on the British colony of Hong Kong in which there were heavy Canadian losses
Battle of the Atlantic
the struggle between the Alies and the Axis powers to control the Allies’ shipping route across the Atlantic Ocean
Bomber Command
the section of the RAF that directed the strategic bombing of Germany
Dieppe Raid
the 1942 trial raid by Canadian trocos against Germany’s occupation ol Dieppe: Canada suffered heavy losses
Italian Campaign
1943 Alled battles to recapture Europe from the south, through Sicily and Italy
D-Day
June 6, 1944; the day Alied armies. including Canada, invaded France; the biggest Allied invasion of the Second World War
Juno Beach
the nine-kilometre stretch of beach in France where Canadian troops landed on D-Day
genocide
the systematic extermination of a religious or ethnic group
arsenal of democracy
a slogan coined by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in December 1940 promising to help the Alles fight the Germans by providing miltary supplies while staying out of the actual fighting
