Question | Answer |
Adolf Hitler | walks into Austria-Hungary, proclaims part of Germany annexes doubles the land he had; dictator of Germany - Nazism; builds up the military in the Czechoslovakian border; says that the Germans were being mistreated |
Great Britain | Neville Chunbaland appeases Hitler with the Munich Pact |
Munich Pact | an agreement that if Hitler didn't expand anymore they would give him Czechoslovakia |
Hitler and Stalin | invaded Poland, divides it in half |
France and Great Britain | declared war |
Japan | Tojo invades Manchuria to gain minerals and resources; moves into China and then on down the Pacific Rim |
Italy | Mussolini attacks Ethiopia, expands Italy's empire |
Treaty of Versailles | the treaty that ended World War I; made Germany take the complete blame; Germany loses land, army,and pays $33 billion in war reparations |
Great Depression | depression hit all the nations during depressed times; people look for actions - dictators |
Mussolini | Italian dictator - Facism |
Facism | extreme nationalism state tells companies what to produce if they need to; state has the supreme authority |
Stalin | Russian dictator - communism (collectives), killed all opposition, storaged 10 million people to death |
Collectives | state owned farms |
Nazism | extreme Facism with racism |
Poland | attcked and taken in 2 weeks by Germany and Russia |
low countries | Denmark, Netherlands, and all the small countries north of France are taken in 6 weeks |
France | outflank Maginot Line by going through the Ardennes; falls |
Maginot Line | the largest concrete formation ever assembled on the northern border of France |
Ardennes | a large swamp area east of the Maginot Line that was thought to be undrivable |
Dunkirk | 330000 French and British troops who were outflanked at the Maginot Line ran to escape to Great Britain; largest Eurcination in human history |
Battle for Britain | after the fall of Dunkirk, Europe is in Nazi control; Germany begins an air war to bomb Great Britain into submission and eventually invade |
Enrigma | German code machines |
radar | invented and helped Great Britain see the German Luficals planes before attacks |
American neutrality | US tries to stay neutral as Europe fell to Germany |
lend lease | US remained neutral by lending |
Atlantic Charter | German U-boats sinking US ships with Great Britain's supplies; US declares they will sink any boat which fires on a US ship |
U-boat | a German submarine |
wolf-packs | U-boats in multiple formations |
Japanese internment | U.S. puts Japanese American citizens in interternment camps in case they were spies |
OPAC | Office of Price Administration; keeping the prices of food down |
rationing | people cut back on consumption; victory gardens |
Bracero program | Mexicans brought in to help farm fields |
WAAC | Women's Ausilliary Army Corporations; women take non combat army positions and fill tin the factory jobs that the men left |
war production board | changed the automotive plants to take plants |
Africa | United States invades |
Patton | took charge |
Rommel | "desert fox" loses |
Stalingrad | massive casualities; stops German advance |
Russian winter | German troops die |
D-Day | United States invades Europe through the French coast |
Battle of the Bulge | last German offensive |
Phillipines | United States loses Gerneral MacArthur; Bataan death march |
Coral Sea | stop the Japanese from advancing in order to save Austrilia |
atomic bomb | bomb that we dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
island hopping | a way we moved on the Pacific Ocean, cutting the Japanese off |
Manhattan Project | guys that built the atomic bomb |