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WWII
The Beginning
Term | Definition |
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Appeasement | giving in to an aggressor |
pacifism | opposition to all war |
Neutrality Acts | Laws that forbade the U.S. to aid nations at war |
Francisco Franco | Fascist leader in Spain |
Anchluss | Germany's union with Austria |
Lebensraum | Living space |
Sudetenland | the region of western Czechoslovakia whom Germany took over because millions of Germans lived there |
Nazi-Soviet Pact | Hitler and Stalin's non-aggression pact |
Blitzkrieg | Hitler's lightning fast attack plan |
Luftwaffe | German Airforce |
Dunkirk | The beach where 300,00 Brits were rescued |
The Desert Fox | German commander Erwin Rommel |
Concentration Camps | detention centers for all those the Nazis deemed unfit |
Holocaust | The Nazis murdered 6 millions Jews |
Lend-Lease Act | Allowed the U.S. to sell or lend war materials to countries if the paid cash and picked the materials up |
1939 | Germany's invasion of Poland |
Munich Agreement | An example of appeasement when the Allies allowed Hitler to take the Sudetenland |
Winston Churchill | British Prime Minister during WWII |
1937 | Japan murders hundreds of thousands of Chinese known as the Rape of Nanjing |
Vichy | Capital of the French puppet state after German conquers France |