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World History
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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.