World WarII And Cild War Flashcards
Totalitarian state
Country where a single party controls the government and every aspect of peoples lives
Neutrality Acts
Series of laws passed by congress in 1935 that banned arms sales or loans to countries at war
Good neighbor policy
President franklin Roosevelt’s policy intended to strengthen friendly relationships with Latin America
Appeasement
Practice of giving in to aggression in order to avoid war
Nazi-soviet pact
Agreement signed between Hitler’s and Stalin in 1939 in which the two dictators agreed not to attack each other
Lend-Lease Act
During world warII, the laws that allowed the United States to sell arms and equipment to Britain
Atlantic charter
Which set goals for the postwar world. The two support “the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they live”.
Blitzkrieg
The swift attacks launched by Germany in world warII