VOCAB NEXT CHAPTER Flashcards
Non-Aggression Pact
Ten-year protection given to Stalin by Hitler
Blitz Krieg
Lightning War
Charles de Gaulle
French general, set up a government-in-exile in London
Winston Churchill
New British Prime minister, declared his nation would never give in
Battle of Britain
Germany attack Britain from September 7, 1940, to May 10, 1941, with bombs.
Erwin Rommel
general who commanded the Afrika Korps
Atlantic Charter
Roosevelt and Churchill met secretly and issued the joint declaration
Isoroku Yamamoto
Admiral, Japan’s greatest naval strategist, called attack on US and Hawaii
Pearl Harbor
Japanese Bombing Attack
Battle of Midway
Battle against US vs Japan, America wins, leaving Japan crippled
Douglas MacArthur
general, commander of the Allied forces in the Pacific, developed a plan to handle the problem
Battle of Guadal canal
Battle on land and sea, Japan abandoned the Island of Death
Aryans
Germanic master race
Kristallnacht
Night of Broken Glass
Ghettos
Segregated Jewish areas