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WH Ch 21 WW2
vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | Agreement made between the United States and France in 1928 that made war "illegal" |
| Osachi Hamaguchi | Japan's Prime Minister who was assassinated in 1930, leading to militarization as new powers came in. |
| Falange | Spanish fascist party |
| Spanish Civil War | War between Falangist Nationalists of Spain and the Republicans during the 1930s |
| Francisco Franco | Spanish military general who led the Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War |
| International Brigades | Antifascist volunteers from France, Britain, and the U.S. who participated in the Spanish Civil War |
| appeasement | Policy of trying to avoid war by accepting some demands of the aggressor |
| Axis Powers | Alliance including Germany, Italy, and Japan |
| Anti-Comintern Pact | Agreement between Japan and Germany pledging to stop the spread of Russian communism |
| Munich Conference | Meeting called by Hitler in 1938 to discuss the Czech problem, which led to the annexation of the Sudetenland by Germany |
| Neville Chamberlain | He was responsible for appeasement by allowing the annexation of Czechoslovakia to Hitler |
| Édouard Daladier | A French politician, was the Prime Minister who signed the Munich Agreement |
| German-Soviet nonaggression pact | 1939 agreement dividing eastern Europe into spheres of influence |
| blitzkrieg | German for "lightning war"; fast, forceful style of fighting used by Germany during World War II |
| "Phony war" | Early phase of World War II marked by little activity in western Europe |
| collaborators | People who are willing to help their country's enemies |
| maquis | Members of a French underground resistance movement |
| isolationists | People who believe that their own country should not become involved in relations with other nations, especially alliances |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of Britain during World War II; he was successful in guiding Britain to victory |
| Philippe Pétain | French general who became known as the "Lion of Verdun"; served as head of collaborationist regime of Vichy France. He surrendered France to Germany with an armistice |
| Charles de Gaulle | French army general who led France to victory against Germany and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 to restore democracy in France |
| Luftwaffe | German air force in World War II |
| Battle of Britain | Nonstop German air raids on Britain during 1940 and 1941 |
| Neutrality Acts | Legislation passed between 1935 and 1937 in the U.S. that stated its wish to stay neutral in future wars |
| Lend-Lease Act | 1941 legislation allowing the U.S. to supply war materials to Great Britain on credit |
| Atlantic Charter | Statement created by Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt that declared their two countries' intentions in 1941 |
| Erwin Rommel | German field marshal noted for brilliant generalship in North Africa during World War II (1891-1944). |
| Hideki Toujou | Japanese Prime minister, didn't accept the west |
| "New Order" | Adolf Hitler's plan for organizing Europe into a single political and economic system ruled by Germany. |
| Final Solution | Name given to the Nazi attempt to destroy the Jewish population of Europe |
| Heinrich Himmler | German Nazi who was chief of the SS and the Gestapo and who oversaw the genocide of six million Jews (1900-1945). |
| SS | Schutzstaffel, or military branch of the Nazi party. |
| Wannsee Conference | Meeting of German officials to plan for systematically exterminating Jews. |
| Auschwitz | Nazi death camp in which people were systematically murdered. |
| Holocaust | Systematic elimination of the European Jews and other by the Nazis |
| Anne Frank | Young Jewish girl who kept a diary of her experiences during the Holocaust in World War II. |
| "Soft underbelly of the Axis" | Region of Italy and the Balkans that Churchill believed to be the weak part of Axis Powers. |
| island hopping | Military strategy of capturing only certain islands of a country and bypassing the others. |
| Battle of Stalingrad | Battle between Germany and the Soviets in Stalingrad in the summer of 1942; Soviet victory greatly weakened Germany's forces |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | leader of the Allied forces in Europe during WW2--leader of troops in Africa and commander in D-Day invasion-elected president-president during integration of Little Rock Central High School |
| Battle of Midway | Important battle in which the Americans defeated the Japanese in 1942 |
| Operation Overlord | Code name for the Allied invasions of Northwest France |
| D-Day | June 6, 1944, the day Allied troops began the invasion on France's Normandy coast. |
| V-E Day | May 8th, 1945, the day of Allied victory in Europe in World War II. |
| V-J Day | September 2, 1945, the day the Japanese surrendered to the United States in World War II |
| Bataan Death March | Forced march by the Japanese of prisoners of war in the Philippines in 1942. |
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