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7 Hist Ch 18 BJU WS
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| aircraft carriers | Ships that survived the attack on Pearl Harbor untouched |
| Anti-Comintern Pact | treaty between Germany and Japan promising a common front against Russia |
| Auschwitz | Nazi concentration camp in Poland |
| Axis Powers | Alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II. |
| Chamberlain | British Prime Minister who made the Munich Agreement with Hitler |
| China | Japan aggressively invaded this country in 1931 |
| Cold War | intense political rivalry between countries that stop short of actual war |
| Dunkirk | site of British troops stranded in France, and their rescue by sea. Germany had to delay their attack because of rain, fog and low cloud cover. |
| Eisenhower | US general & head of Allied forces in Europe and North Africa |
| FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) | United States president during WWII. He died before the war ended |
| France | Allies invaded this country on June 6, 1944 |
| Franco | Dictator of Spain |
| Germany | this country bombed London to prepare for a land invasion |
| Hideki Tojo | Japanese general and prime minister during WWII. He strengthened Japan's military |
| Hirohito | Emperor of Japan during WWII |
| Iwo Jima and Okinawa | The last two heavily defended Japanese islands conquered by the United States in 1945 |
| Japan | country US dropped atomic bombs in |
| League of Nations | this organization ignored the Japan's invasion of Manchuria |
| MacArthur | United States general who served as chief of staff and commanded Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II |
| Montgomery | British General in charge of all British forces in North Africa, defeated German forces led by Rommel at El Alamein, saved Egypt and Suez Canal from German control |
| Munich Conference | 1938 conference at which European leaders attempted to appease Hitler by turning over the Sudetenland to him in exchange for promise that Germany would not expand Germany's territory any further. |
| Pact of Steel | May 1939 - a military agreement between Italy and Germany |
| Pearl Harbor | Base in Hawaii that was bombed by Japan on December 7, 1941, which brought America to enter the war. |
| Poland | Germany invaded this country, breaking their agreement, so Britain and France declared war, starting World War II, invaded Poland Sept. 1,1939. |
| Poland | Russia and Germany simultaneously invaded this country |
| Polish Resistance | group of Poles that fought against the invasion of Germany in Poland |
| Pollock | artist who developed Abstract Expressionism |
| Rommel | Commander of Axis troops in North Africa, known as the "Desert Fox" |
| Shoah | Hebrew term for the Holocaust; meaning "catastrophe" |
| Soviet Union | country that dominated and took over most of Eastern Europe in after WWII |
| Spain | facist country during WWII |
| Sudetenland | an area in western Czechoslovakia that was coveted by Hitler |
| Third Reich | name referred to German's empire during WWII |
| turning points of WWII | Germany invading Russia, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the US joining the fight in Europe |
| V-J Day | Victory in Japan; September 2, 1945; Japan surrendered, ending WWII |
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