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Name: ________________________ World History Date: ____________ Vocabulary: Unit II-WWII Vocabulary Word Definition Nonaggression pact it was a ten-year agreement between the Soviet Union and Germany, in which they promised not to attack one another. And in a secret part of the pact, Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to divide Poland between them Blitzkrieg It was a new German strategy, meaning “lighting war”, that was used to invade Poland. In which it involved using fastmoving airplanes and tanks, followed by massive infantry forces, to take enemy defenders by surprise and quickly overwhelm them. Charles de Gaulle was a French general, who set up a government-in-exile in London. He committed all his energy to reconquering France , in which he went on to organizing the Free French military forces that battled the Nazis until France was liberated in 1944. was the new prime minister of Great Britain, while France had fallen to the Germans, in which they stood alone against the Winston Churchill Clue/Connection Nazis, but Churchill had already declared that his nation would never give in. Battle of Britain Erwin Rommel Atlantic Charter Isoroku Yamamoto Pearl Harbor German bombing raids on Britain that initially took place in the day but after October 1940 would only happen at night to prevent the British Royal Air Force (RAF) from counterattacking. German General who lead the tank regiment in the African front against the British and later the U.S A joint declaration that was secretly signed by Roosevelt and Churchill that continued free trade among nations and the right of people to choose their own government. Later served as the Allies’ peace plan at the end of WWII. Admiral for the Japanese fleet and Japan’s greatest naval strategist called for the attack on U.S. fleet in Hawaii. Dec. 7, 1941, location of a surprise Japanese bombing raid that damaged or sank more than 19 ships and killed 2,300 and wounded 1,100 Americans. Caused U.S. to enter WWII and is known as “a day that will live in infamy” -Roosevelt. Battle of Midway Japanese attack on the U.S. controlled island of Midway. Lead by Nimitz (U.S.) and Yamamoto (Japan). U.S. defended the island and turned the tide of the war. Douglas MacArthur General and commander of the U.S. land forces in the Pacific. Declared “I shall return” when ordered to retreat from the Philippines in 1935. Battle of Guadalcanal 6 month battle for the Japanese constructed airbase that resulted in a U.S. victory. Nazi proposed “master race” Aryan Holocaust Kristallnacht Ghetto the systematic mass slaughter of Jews and other groups judged inferior by the Nazis. “Night of Broken Glass” Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues across Germany and murdered close to 100 Jews. segregated Jewish areas that Jews were forced to move into and then were sealed to starve or eventually die from disease. “Final Solution”- Genocide Dwight D. Eisenhower Battle of Stalingrad D-Day Battle of the Bulge Kamikaze the genocide of the Jewish people in camps. Systematic killing of an entire group of people. U.S. general who lead the European and African offenses. German bombing and raiding of the Russian controlled city. Stalin ordered his commanders to defend the city named after him to the death. Attack against the Germans by the British, U.S., French, and Canadian troops. Allied victory at the expense of more than 2,700 U.S. troops alone German attack on the weak U.S. defenses along a 75 mile front. The U.S. pushed the Germans back and forced their retreat They were Japanese suicide pilots; they would sink Allied ships by crash-diving their bomb-filled planes into them. Nuremberg Trials Demilitarization Democratization Appeasement was when Nazi war criminals were put on trial in Nuremberg, Germany, where 22 Nazi leaders were charged with waging a war of aggression. And they were also accused of the murder of 11 million people. was started by General Douglas MacArthur, which was started to ensure peace in Japan, in which he disbanded the Japanese’s armed forces. was the process of creating a government elected by the people. Which Mac Arthur and his American political advisers drew up a constitution in Japan, which they accepted was giving in to an aggressor to keep peace and avoid war. Axis Powers was an alliance between the nations of Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II. Francisco Franco was the general in Spain that favored a fascist-style government, in which he made a revolt, in which it began a civil war that dragged on for three years. He received military aid from Germany and Italy that helped him win the civil war, which in early 1939, Franco became the Spanish dictator a policy of avoiding political or military involvement with other countries. This was supported by many Americans Isolationism in the United States. Third Reich Munich Conference was announced by Hitler on November 5, 1937, to absorb Austria and Czechoslovakia into his German empire that would last 1000 years. was a meeting between Germany, France, Britain and Italy in Munich Germany, proposed by Mussolini, was held on September 29, 1938, which was were Britain and France agreed to allow Hitler to take the Sudetenland, exchange for Hitler’s pledge to respect Czechoslovakia’s new borders.