WWII and Beyond (ch 29)

Question 0

Anti-Comintern Pact

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Between hurler and japan. Offered security against Russia

Question 1

Anschluss

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The annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938

Question 2

Atlantic Charter

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August 1941. Called for peace without territorial expansion or secret agreements and for free elections and self determination for all liberated nations

Question 3

Casablanca Conference

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Resolved to accept nothing less than unconditional surrender of Axis powers

Question 4

Neville Chamberlain

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1938 gullible British Prime Minister. Declared that Britain and France would fight if hitler attacked Poland

Question 5

Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

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Greatest wartime leader. Rallied the British with his speeches, infectious confidence, and bulldog determination. Known for his “iron curtain” speech. Led the British during WWII. Agreed hitler should be conquered. Was thrown out by his own people

Question 6

D-Day (June 6, 1944)

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Americans and British forced under General Dwight Eisenhower landed on the beaches of Normandy. This was history’s greatest naval invasion

Question 7

Battle of Stalingrad

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Turning point for Germany in the war

Question 8

Edouard Daladier

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French leader of the radical socialists. Accepted hitler’s terms for peace

Question 9

Francisco Franco

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Spanish General. Organized the revolt in Morocco which led to Spanish civil war

Question 10

Lebensaum

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Room to move. Phrase used by hitler to justify invasion of other countries

Question 11

Lend-Lease Program

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The US lenses money and resources to the european states to help reconstruction

Question 12

Maginot Line

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Line of defense built by France against German invasion from Belgium to Switzerland

Question 13

Munich Conference (1938)

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Chamberlain, France, and other countries (not the USSR) they agreed that Sudentenland should be ceded to Germany. Chamberlain secured peace with Germany

Question 14

Pacificism

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Ababa priests laid great stress on this. They would not run for office or serve in the armed forces. Not being involved in many wars

Question 15

Potsdam Conference

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Brought forward many differences over east Europe. Postwar conference in July of 1945. Stalin would not allow any type of freely elected government in east european countries. Roosevelt had died and was succeeded by Harry Truman who demanded free elections

Question 16

Rome-Berlin Axis (1936)

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Close cooperation between Italy and Germany. Japan soon joined. Resulted from hitler who had supported Ethiopia and Italy. He overcame Mussolini’s lingering doubts about the nazis

Question 17

Erwin Rommel

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“Desert Fox” (May 1942) German and Italian armies were led by him and attacked British occupied Egypt and the Suez Canal for the second time. We’re defeated at the battle of El Almamein. Was moved to France to oversee the defenses before D-Day. Tried to assassinate hitler

Question 18

Russo-German Nonaggression Pact

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Hitler and Stalin promised to remain neutral of either country were to become involved in war (August 1939)

Question 19

Joseph Stalin

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Communist statesman. Leader of Bolshevik Party. Became ruler of USSR after Lenin. Assumed full military and political leadership

Question 20

Sudetenland

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Hitler wanted German speaking people in West Czech. This would be given to Germany

Question 21

Teheran Conference

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Meeting in 1943. Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill. Confirmed their defense to crush hitler

Question 22

Yalta Conference

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On the Black Sea. The Big Three met in February 1945 in southern Russia. It was agreed that Germany would be divided into zones of occupation and would pay heavy reparations to the Soviet Union in the form of agricultural and industrial goods. When the Big Three met in governments were to be freely elected but pro-soviet

Question 23

Konrad Adenauer

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Chancellor of Germany in 1949. The former mayor of Cologne and a long time anti-Nazi. Began his long highly successful democratic rule. West Germany had a majority of Christian Democrats. Helped regain respect for Germany