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Chapter 28
Term | Definition |
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appeasement | giving in to aggressive demands in order to avoid war |
Winston Churchill | British prime minister; he opposed the policy of appeasement and led Great Britain through World War II |
Axis Powers | the alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan in World War II |
Nonagression Pact | an agreement between nations to not attack one another |
Blitzkrieg | a German word meaning " lighting war"; a fast, forward style of fighting used by Germans in World War II |
Allies | the alliance of Britain, France, and Russia in World War II; joined by the United States after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 |
Battle of Britain | three month air battle between Germany and Great Britain fought over Great Britain during World War II |
Hideki Tojo | Japanese nationalist and general; he took control of Japan during World War II. He was later tried and executed for war crimes |
Isolationism | staying out of the affairs and wars of other nations; the position initially held by United States at the beginning of World War II |
Erwin Rommel | German general during World War II; he commanded the Afrika Korps and was nicknamed the Desert Fox for his leadership |
Battle of El Alamein | World War II battle in which Britain won a decisive victory over Germany in Egypt'securing the Suez Canal |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | General; thirty-fourth president of the United States; as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II, he led the Allied invasions of North Africa and of France (D-Day) |
Siege Of Leningard | Nazi army´s unsuccessful attempt to capture the city of Leningrad in the Soviet Union during World War II |
Battle of Stalingard | World War II battle between invading German forces and Soviet defenders for control of Stalingrad, a city on the Volga River |
Douglas MacArthur | American general, he commanded U.S troops in the southwest Pacific during World War II and administrated Japan after the war ended |
Bataan Death March | a forced march of American and Filipino prisoners of war captured by the Japanese in the Philippines in World War II |
Battle of Midway | World War II naval battle fought in the Pacific |
Battle of Guadalcanal | World War II battle in the Pacific; it represented the first Allied counter-attack against Japanese forces |
Kamikazes | In World War II, Japanese pilots who loaded their aircraft with bombs and crashed them into enemy ships |
Deported | forced to leave a country |
Final Solution | the Nazi Party´s plan to murder the entire Jewish population of Europe and the Soviet Union |
Ghetto | an area where minority groups live |
Concentration Camps | detention sites created for military or political purposes to confine, terrorize, and, in some cases, kill civilians |
Holocaust | the killing of millions of Jews and others by the Nazis during World War II |
D-Day | June 6, 1944; the first day of the Allied invasion of Normandy in World War II |
V-E Day | May 8, 1945; a term used by the Allies, it stands for "victory in Europe" during World War II |
Battle of Iwo Jima | World War II battle between Japanese forces invading U.S troops |
Battle of Okinawa | World War II victory for the Allied troops that resulted in the deaths of almost all of the 100,000 Japanese defenders; the battle claimed 12,000 American lives |
Harry S Truman | Thirty-third president of the United States; he became president upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He led the United States through the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War |
Hirohito | Emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989; he led Japan through World War II |
V-J Day | August 15, 1945; a term used by the Allies, it stands for "victory over Japan" during World War II |
Yalta Conference | a meeting between Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin to reach an agreement on what to do with Germany after World War II |
United Nations | international organization formed in 1945 to maintain world peace and encourage cooperation among nations |
Potsdam Conference | a meeting Allied leaders in the German city of Potsdam to address issues about the post-World War II Europe |