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Chapter 28 vocab
Chapter 28 key terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Appeasement | is a diplomatic policy aimed at avoiding war by making concessions to an aggressor. |
| Winston Churchill | was a British politician, best known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. |
| Axis Powers | also known as the Axis alliance |
| Nonaggression pact | is a national treaty between two or more states/countries agreeing to avoid war or armed conflict between them and resolve their disputes |
| blitzkrieg | is an anglicised word describing all-motorised force concentration of tanks, |
| Allies | are people, groups, or nations that have joined in an association for mutual benefit or to achieve some common purpose |
| Battle of Britian | is the name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. |
| Hideki Tojo | was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army |
| Isolationism | is the policy or doctrine of isolating one's country from the affairs of other nations by declining to enter into alliances |
| Erwin Rommel | popularly known as the Desert Fox |
| Battle of El Alamein | took place over 20 days from 23 October – 11 November 1942 near the Egyptian coastal city of El Alamein |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961 |
| Siege of Leningrad | also known as the Leningrad Blockade |
| Douglas MacArthur | was an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army who was Chief of Staff of the United States Army |
| Bataan Death March | is a challenging march through the high desert terrain of White Sands Missile Range |
| Battle of Midway | is widely regarded as the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II |
| Battle of Guadalcanal | sometimes referred to as the Third and Fourth Battles of Savo Island |
| Kamikazes | is made of equal parts vodka |
| Deported | is the expulsion of a person or group of people from a place or country |
| Final Solution | Nazi Germany's plan during World War II to annihilate the Jewish people |
| Ghetto | is a part of a city predominantly occupied by a particular ethnic group that may be looked down upon for various reasons |
| Concentration Camps | Is a camp made for Jewish people to die there. |
| Holocaust | one of over one million Jewish children who died there |
| D-Day | The World War II D-Day invasion of Normandy, France. |
| V-E Day | was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 |
| Battle of Iwo Jima | was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought |
| Battle of Okinawa | codenamed Operation Iceberg, was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War |
| Harry S Truman | was the 33rd President of the United States. |
| Hirohito | posthumously in Japan officially called Emperor Shōwa was the 124th Emperor of Japan |
| V-J Day | Victory over Japan Day |
| Yalta Conference | sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference |
| United Nations | coined by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt was first used in the Declaration by United Nations of 1 January 1942 |
| Potsdam Conference | was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from July 17 to August 2 |
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Luis Sanchez
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