WWII Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Kellog-Briand Pact | the US and 62 nations renounced the use of war |
Good Neighbor Policy | the US agreed to stop interfering in Latin American affairs, which improved relations between them |
Russian Revolution 1917 | under Lenin and Stalin, the Soviet Union became the first communist state |
Joseph Stalin | totalitarian dictator of the Soviet Union who used concentration camps to punish his critics |
NAZI Party | the German National Socialists took advantage of fear of communism, and emotions from the Treaty of Versailles to seize power and installed a fascists state |
Adolf Hitler | rose to power establishing a brutal dictatorship and setting Europe on the path to war with his aggressive policy of taking land from other countries |
League of Nations | |
Sudetenland | part of Czechoslovakia that was given to Hitler at the Munich Conference when he threatened war |
appeasement | the policy of giving in to satisfy demands of an enemy |
Blitzkrieg | Germany's rapid coordinated warfare using tanks, planes, infantry and paratroopers to bypass enemy lines |
Neutrality Acts | American laws that prohibited citizens from traveling on ships from countries at war-in order to prevent US from entering war |
Cash -and-Carry | Americans could sell non-military goods to Britain for cash only and they had to carry the supplies on their own ships |
Quarantine Speech | FDR warned Americans that peaceful nations had to act together to isolate aggressive nations |
Flying Tigers | American volunteers who were recruited to fight Japanese fighter pilots in Asia |
Lend-Lease Act | America began selling and leasing war materials to any country who was deemed vital to the defense of US interests-Britain primarily |
Four Freedoms | FDR's plan to establish freedom of speech, expression, religion, and from want/fear |
Atlantic Charter | FDR & Winston Churchill agreed to work together without seeking territories to protect the seas and end the war |
Pearl Harbor | Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese surprise attack against the US naval base in Honolulu led to US entering WWII |
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