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Chavez WH 32 Vocab
Ch 32
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Non Aggression Pact | Agreement that says countries will not attack or invade one another |
| Blitzkrieg | Warfare in which surprise air attacks are followed by massive attacks on land |
| Charles de Gaulle | Leader of the French government-in-exile |
| Winston Churchill | Leader of Britain |
| Battle of Britain | Battle of British and German air forces fought over Britain during 1940-1941 |
| Erwin Rommel | German general who led troops in North Africa |
| Atlantic Charter | Declaration of principles issued by Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt in August 1941 |
| Isoroku Yamamoto | Japanese admiral who decided that the U.S. fleet in Hawaii had to be destroyed |
| Pearl Harbor | Navy base in Hawaii attacked by the Japanese |
| Battle of Midway | Sea and air battle in which American forces defeated Japanese forces near Midway Island in the Pacific |
| Douglas MacArthur | U.S. general who commanded Allied forces in the Pacific |
| Battle of Guadalcanal | Six-month battle on the island of Guadalcanal in which American and Australian troops defeated Japanese defenders |
| Aryans | Germanic peoples |
| Holocaust | Systematic mass killing of Jews and other groups considered inferior by Nazis |
| Kristallnacht | "night of Broken Glass," when Nazis attacked Jews throughout Germany |
| Ghettos | Neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live |
| "Final Solution" | Hitler's plan to kill as many Jews as possible |
| Genocide | Systematic killing of an entire people |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | American general who helped drive the Germans out of Africa |
| Battle of Stalingrad | Battle during which the Red Army forced the Germans out of Stalingrad |
| D-Day | Huge Allied invasion mounted to retake France from the Germans |
| Battle of the Bulge | Final large-scale attack by German troops that was forced back by the Allies |
| Kamikaze | Japanese suicide pilots |
| Nuremberg Trials | Trials of Nazi leaders charged with crimes against humanity, held in Nuremberg, Germany |
| Demilitarization | Breaking down armed forces |
| Democratization | Process of creating a government elected by the people |
| Concentration Camp | Camp where enemies of the government and other people are held against their will, often under brutal conditions |
| Counterattack | Attack made in response to an enemy's attack |
| Defenses | Weapons used against, or readiness for, attack |
| Devastated | Destroyed |
| Displaced Persons | People driven from their homeland by war or internal upheaval |
| Escorting | Traveling with for the sake of protection |
| Fleet | Number of ships operating together under one command |
| Inmates | Prisoners |
| Massive | Huge Allied invasion mounted to retake France from the Germans |
| Morale | Spirit |
| Persecuting | Harassing with ill-treatment, especially because of race, religion, or beliefs |
| Rationed | Limited the amount a person could have |
| Resistance | Fighting back |
| Strategic | Important or essential to a plan of action |
| Systematic | Done according to a plan or system |
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