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Road to War
Term | Definition |
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adolf hitler | Nazi leader bad guy led the killing of over 6 million jews |
advantages of great britain | large equipped army island country own turf RAF (Royal Air Force) |
american first committee | formed to block further aid to Great Britain leader- Charles Lindbergh |
appeasement | giving into a competitor's demands in order to keep the peace |
battle of britain | in London turning point of the war bc it is the first defeat of Hitler target: Britain's aircraft factories and oil storage tanks "The Blitz" did not damage the will of Britain's people. |
benito mussolini | Fascist Il Duce sounds like a pasta wanted North Africa felt cheated out of promised lands not received poor, weak Italian Army |
blitzkrieg | "lightning wars" 1. bomb from the air 2. tanks and artillery 3. infantry (soldier) attack |
cash and carry | non-military goods would be given to any nation that came to the US with their own ships (not US) and paid with cash |
charles lindbergh | leader of American First Committee |
communist party | leader: Joseph Stalin |
emperor hirohito | Japanese emperor nationalism Japan needed raw materials to make their goods US cuts off trade bc Japan is attacking other countries |
fascist party | leader: Benito Mussolini |
franklin roosevelt | president of US wants to help Great Britain in the war creates lend-lease as loophole to aid Britain |
great depression | awful event following WWI that affects everyone |
japan's goals | to destroy US fleet and attack US before we could rebuild during Pearl Harbor |
joseph stalin | Communist leader "Comrade" wanted Eastern Europe Red Army (largest in Europe) just wanted to kill his own people |
lend-lease act | allowed president to aid any nation whose defense he believed was vital to American security |
mein kampf | book Hitler wrote "My Struggle" mapped out his plans no one read it, had they read it, none of the Holocaust would have happened because Hitler would have been thwarted |
nazi party | leader: Hitler took part as aggressors in WWII |
neutrality acts | 1. banned US from providing weapons to nations at war 2. banned loans to nations at war 3. permitted cash-carry |
pearl harbor | December 7th, 1941 japan attack US in Hawaii unanticipated event over 2000 US sailors died |
poland | Hitler invaded after appeasement and war begun on September 1, 1939 |
december 8, 1941 | roosevelt's address to congress for a declaration of war |
winston churchill | Prime minister of Great Britain BFFs with FDR gave famous speech to keep Britain's will to fight during Battle of Britain |
Rhineland | first territory Hitler took in 1936 , no problems |
Austria | second piece Hitler took in 1938 , no problems |
Sudetenland | third territory Hitler took in 1938 . problems |
Chamberlain | great britain prime minister that argued with Hitler a bit but let him only keep sudetenland |
national pride, people working, more land | three things that came with Hitler's rebuild of the Nazi army |
non-aggression pact | 10 year deal between Hitler and Stalin, lasted 3 years. Hitler didn't want to fight a two front war. Stalin wanted to kill his own people and not fight war. |
September 1, 1939 | date of invasion of Poland that started the war |