Key Terms Flashcards
Dictator
A ruler with total power over a country
He governed the Soviet Union
Stalin
Leader of the national fascist party
Mussolini
Leader of nazi party
Hitler
A country run by a dictator
Fascist
A member of the national socialist German workers party
Nazi
The granting of concessions in order to maintain peace
Appeasement
Two country’s agree to take no military action against Eachother
Non aggression pact
The doctrine that a nation should stay out if disputes and affairs of other nations
Isolationism
Discrimination against Jews
Anti Semitism
Italy, Germany, Japan
Axis powers
Powerful Canadian cabinet minister
Cd Howe
War measures act
Security and order to Canadian government
Total war
No rules on warfare
Aircrew training program
BCATP
Military tactic through mobile forces
Blitzkrieg
Germans bombed port of Dunkirk because allied forces were surrounded there
Dunkirk
Lustwaffe
Aerial warfare
The blitz
Heavy air raids on Britain
Operation barber pass
The plan to invade ussr
Dieppe rald
Allied attack on German occupied port of dieppe
D-day
Allied landings on the French Normandy coast
One of the five beaches of allied invasion of German occupied France in Normandy land
Juno beach
Manhattan project
Research undertaking that produces nuclear weapons
Final solution
Getting rid of all the Jews
NRMA
nation resources mobilization act
Gave the gov special emergency powers
Plebiscite
A huge vote
Phoney war
Eight month period where nothing happened
Operation sea lion
Attack on the United Kingdom
Ve day.
May 8
VJ Day
August 15
