Study Guide US History 1877 2:1 Flashcards
Appeasement
Giving into demands of aggressor nations
Prime minister most WW2
Churchill
Italian dictator
Mussolini
Facism- ways different from communism
Ends with defeat of facist dictator that involve government control of political economic cultural religious and social activity allowed private ownership of property
Blend of socialism and communism
Mein kampf
My struggle
Hitlers autobio
Rommels nickname
Desert fox
Third reich
Nazi state
Large country hitler erroneously attacked
Soviet Union
Nationalist Chinese leader
Kai shek
Communist Chinese leader
Tse tung
Volunteer squadron of American airmen
Flying tigers
Nationalist Spanish leader
Franco
Act requiring men to register with local draft boards
Selective service
Axis powers
Germany Italy Japan
Lend lease act
Congress allowed president to lend lease sell to any country who’s defense was viral to American security
Anschluss
Union of Austria and Germany
Panay
American gun boat sunk by Japanese airmen
Blitzkrieg
Lightning war Germany and Poland
Dunquerque another miracle in the English canal
1558 defeat of Spanish Armanda
Vichy
capital southern France free from German control and occupation
Gerneral of first army in North America
Eisenhaur
Leader militaristic japan
Tojo
Leader free French
De Gaulle
Operation torch
Allied plan to open second front in Africa