Unit 17 Vocab Flashcards
An agreement in which nations promise not to attack one another
Nonaggression pact
Lightning war
Blitzkrieg
French general who tried to set up a government in exile committed to reconquering France
Charles de Gaulle
Britain prim minster during WWII
Winston Churchill
A battle between German and Britain air forces that lasted until May 10, 1941
Battle of Britain
Joint declaration that upheld free trade among nations and the right of people to choose their own government
Atlantic charter
Japan’s greatest naval strategist who was the leader in the attack for Pearl Harbor
Isoroku Yamamoto
December 7, 1941 attack from Japanese on military base in Hawaii
Pearl Harbor
Battle that turned the war in the pacific against the Japanese
Battle of midway
Commander of the allied land forces in the pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Battle to gain control of the Guadalcanal island between japan and the U.S. that lasted six months
Battle of Guadalcanal
German people aka master race
Aryans
The mass slaughter of none Aryan citizens
Holocaust
Night of broken glass
Kristallnacht
Segregated Jewish areas
Ghettos
Hitlers program of genocide
Final solution
The systematic killing of an entire people
Genocide
General that took control of Tobruk In 1941
Erwin Rommel
General in control of British forces in North Africa
Bernard Montgomery
American general of troops landing in Morocco and Algeria
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Battle in The Soviet Union against Germany in 1942
Battle of Stalingrad
The day that operation overlord started on
D-day
Battle that German tanks broke through the American lines
Battle of the bulge
Japanese suicide pilots
Kamikaze
