Download 16-2 Vocab

16-2 Vocab
Neville Chamberlain
Prime minister of Great Britain before World War II
Winston Churchill
Prime minister of Great Britain during World War II
Charles de Gaulle
Head of the French government in exile in England
appeasement
Trying to pacify an aggressor in order to keep the
nonaggression pact
peace
Agreement between Germany and USSR not to
blitzkrieg
fight each other
Lightning war strategy used by Germany against
Poland
1) Why do you think Neville Chamberlain signed the non-aggression pact w/
2)
3)
4)
5)
Hitler?
a. In retrospect, was it a good strategy?
Under what circumstances, if ever, is appeasement the appropriate course of
action?
Describe what happened during the “phony war”.
What was the Battle of Britain?
Winston Churchill, in referring to the Battle of Britain, said, “Never in the field
of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” What do you
think he meant by this?