ww2 Flashcards
Abdicate
Give up/withdraw power
Armistice:
Formal terms of a peace agreement
Reparations
the payment for crimes committed to repair the damages done
Appeasement
the action of Making someone pleased or less angry by giving or saying something desired
Genocide:
Wiping out or attempted eradication of a group of people
Anti-Semitism:
prejudice against or hatred of jews
Night of the long Knives:
the Massacre of members and leaders of the parliament force ordered by Adolf Hitler.
Nuremberg laws
antisemitic and racist laws passed in Germany
Carpet Bombing:
to drop large numbers of bombs to cause complete devastation
Allies:
political and military alliance of the British Commonwealth, France, the United States and Russia, who forged an agreement to fight National Socialist Germany - a state formally cooperating with another for a military or other purpose.
Axis:
name given to the political and military alliance of Germany, Italy and Japan during World War 2
Isolationism:
an attempt to remain separate from the issues of other nations
Inertia:
lack of activity or interest, or unwillingness to make an effort to do anything
Blitzkrieg:
Lightning war
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact:
controversial treaty between Germany and the Soviet Union to refrain from attacking one another