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CAS-SS Ch 18 (BJU)
7th Grade World Studies 3rd edition (BJU curriculum)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Francisco Franco | over threw the republican government and declared a facist dictatorship over Spain |
| Emperor Hirohito | played an active role in military decisions of Japan |
| General Tojo | played a central role in expanding the power of the military in Japan |
| The Third Reich | was a new German Empire established by Hitler |
| Sudetenland | was an area of land that Hitler wanted |
| Munich Conference | French and British government's agreed to give Hitler the Sudetenland |
| Neville Chamberlan | served as Prime Minister of England |
| Rome-Berlin Axis | alliance between Italy (Mussolini)and Germany (Hitler) |
| Anti-Comintern Pact | Allignment between Japan and Germany against communist Russia |
| Appeasement | avoiding conflict by making concessions |
| Axis powers | Italy, Germany, and Japan |
| Pact of Steel | A military alliance between Germany (Hitler) and Italy (Mussolini) that shattered an illusion of security for Europe. |
| September 1,1939 | 1.5 million German troops cross the border into Poland starting WWII |
| Allies | Britain and French forces joined together, later joined by America |
| December 7, 1941 | Japanese launched an attack on the American Naval Base at Pearl Harbor |
| Pearl Harbor | American Naval Base located in Hawaii |
| Luftwaffe | German Air Force |
| General Erwin Rommel | German general sent to rescue Italian troops and advanced into Egypt |
| General Bernard L. Montgomery | British commander who defeated German forces in Egypt |
| General Douglas MacArthur | American General was ordered to leave the Philippines |
| Midway Island | Island in the Pacific Ocean where an American Naval Base is located |
| Dwight D Eisenhower | led US troops to defeat the Axis troops |
| June 6, 1944 | the Allies launched a massive attack of france |
| D-day | A massive Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944 |
| Battle of the Bulge | a Germany plan to break through Allied lines on the German border, but failed |
| May 8, 1945 | Allies declared V-E Day for the victory in Europe |
| September 2, 1945 | V-J Day, when Allied represenitives and Japanese signed documents that formally ended Japans involvement in WWII |
| Cold war | a time period where political rivalry stops short of actual war |
| absract expression | art having no meaning or purpose by randomly splashing wet paint on the canvas with brushes |
| Holocaust | Hitler's attempt to destroy off all of the Jews in Europe |
| Operation T-4 | Nazi code name for removing all weak from the German nation |
| Shoah | Hebrew word meaning calamity |
| existentialism | is a philosophy that stresses a persons uniqueness while encouraging free choice and accepting the consequences of that choice, denying that an all-powerful God rules over the affairs of humans |
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