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Chp. 28
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| appeasement | giving in to aggression demands in order to maintain peace |
| Axis Powers | military alliance made up of Germany,Japan, and Italy |
| Nonaggression pact | an agreement between parties not to attack one another, such as the 1939 pact made between Germany and the Soviet Union in which each side agreed not to attack each other |
| blitzkrieg | German word for "lightning war", a type of assault that emphasized speed and close coordination between airplanes and ground forces |
| Allies | military alliance between Great Britain, France, and later the United States and the Soviet Union |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII |
| Battle of Britain | German campaign to bomb Britain |
| Hideki Tojo | general and leader of Japanese government during WWII |
| isolationism | desire to stay out of the affairs of other nations |
| Erwin Rommel | German general who lead the German-Italian force in North Africa |
| Battle of El Alamein | key battle in North America won by the British in October 1942 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | commander of American forces, defeated Rommel in Africa |
| Siege of Leningrad | German blockade in the winter of 1941-42 which resulted in the deaths of one million Russian civilians |
| Battle of Stalingrad | crushing defeat of German forces, led to turning point in the war |
| Douglas MacArthur | commander of American forces in the Pacific |
| Bataan Death March | brutal forced march of American and Filipino prisoners of war by their Japanese captors |
| Battle of Midway | key Allied victory in the Pacific which weakened Japan's navy |
| Battle of Guadalcanal | lengthy battle in the Pacific resulting in an Allied victory |
| kamikaze | any Japanese pilot who loaded his plane with explosives and crashed into an Allied ship, sacrificing his own life |
| deported | forced to leave a country |
| Final Solution | deliberate, mass execution of Jews |
| ghettos | Jewish people confined within a city |
| concentration camps | labor camps meant to hold the people Hitler called enemies of the state |
| Holocaust | campaign of mass murder that the Nazis waged against the Jews |
| D-day | June 6, 1944, the day Allied forces invaded France and the beaches of Normandy |
| V-E Day | Victory in Europe Day, May 8, 1945, the day Allied victory was declared |
| Battle of Iwo Jima | brutal battle in which the Allies captured a strategic island close to Japan |
| Battle of Okinawa | Pacific battle that claimed 12,000 American lives for an Allied victory |
| Harry S. Truman | U.S President who made the decision to use the atomic bomb |
| Hirohito | Japanese emperor who surrendered to Allies |
| V-J Day | August 15, 1945, the day Japan surrendered to the Allies, ending WWII |
| Yalta conference | meeting held by the Allied nations to plan postwar Europe |
| Potsdam Conference | meeting of Allied leaders in which tension between the Soviet Union and the other Allied surfaced |
| United Nations | world organization meant to encourage international cooperation and the prevention of wars |
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