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chapter 28
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| giving in to aggressive demands in order to aviod war | appeasement |
| british prime minister; he opposed the policy of appeasement and led great britain through world war 1 | winston churchill |
| the alliance of germany, italy, and japan in world war 1 | axis powers |
| an agreement between nations to not attack one another | nonaggression pact |
| a german word meaning "lightning war"; a fast,forceful style of fighting used by germans in world war 2 | blitzkrieg |
| the formal agreement between two or more nations entered into to advance common interests or causes | allies |
| three month air battle between germany and great britain fought over great britain durning world war 2 | battle of britain |
| japanese nationalist and general; he took control of japan durning world war 2 | hideki tojo |
| staying out of the affaires and wars of other nations; the positions initially held by the united states at the beginning of world war 2 | isolationism |
| german general durning world war 2; he commanded the afrika korps and was nicknamed the desert fox for his leadership | erwin rommel |
| world war 2 battle in which britain won a decisive victory over germany in egypt | battle of el alamein |
| general; thirty-forth president of the united states; as supreme allied commander in europe durning world war 2 | dwight d. eisenhower |
| nazi army's unsuccessful attempt to capture the city of leningrad | siege of leningrad |
| world war 2 battle between invading german forces and soviet defenders for control of stalingrad | battle of stalingrad |
| american general, he commended u.s. troops inthe southwest pacific durning world war 2 and administered japan after the war ended | douglas macarthur |
| a forced march of america and filipino prisoners of war captured by the japanese in the philippines in world war 2 | battaan death march |
| world war 2 naval battle fought in the pacific; the americans broke the japanese code and knew the data and locations of the attack | battle of midway |
| world war 2 battle in the pacific' it represented the first allied counter attack against japanese forces; allied victory forced japanese forces to abandon the island | battle of guadalcanal |
| in worls war 2, japanese pilots who loaded their aircraft with bombs and crased them into enemy ships | kamikazes |
| forced to leave a country | deported |
| the nazi party's plan to murder the entire jewish population of europe and the soviet union | final solution |
| an area where minority groupsmlive | ghetto |
| detention sites created for military or political puropse to confine,terrorize,and,in some cases,kill civilians | concentration camps |
| the killing of millions of jews and others by naziz durning world war 2 | holocaust |
| june 6,1944;the first day of the allied invasion of normandy in world war 2 | d-day |
| may 8; 1945; a tearm used by the allies,it stands for "victory in europe"durning world war 2 | v-e day |
| world war 2 victory for the allied troops that resulted in the deaths of almost all of the 100000 japanese defenders | battle of okinawa |
| thirty-third president of the united states; he became president upon the death of franklin d.roosevelt. | harry s truman |
| emperor of japan from 1926 to 1889; he led the japanese during world war 2 and was forced into unconditional surrender following the atomic-bomb attacks on hiroshima and nagasaki | hirohito |
| august 15,1945;a term used by the allies, it stands for "victory over japan" during world war 2 | v-j day |
| a meeting between franklin roosevelt, winston churchill, and joseph stalin to reach an agreement on what to do with germany after world war 2 | yalta conference |
| international organization formed in 1945 to maintain world peace and encourage cooperation among nations | united nations |
| a meeting of allied leaders in the german city of potsdam to address issues about the post-world 2 europe. | potsdam conference |
| europeworld war 2 battle between japanese forces and invading u.s. troops | battle of iwom jima |
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