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22 Cards in this Set
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Kellogg -briand pack |
Agreement made between the u.s. and France in 1928 that was supposed to make war illegal |
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Spanish civil war |
War between falangist nationalists of Spain and the Republicans during the 1930s |
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Nuremberg trials |
Post war trials of nazi leaders charged with crimes against peace and humanity |
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Kamikaze |
A suicide mission in which young Japanese pilots would intentionally fly their planes into enemy targets |
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Mobilization |
The process of assembling troops and supplies and making them ready for war |
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Genocide |
The deliberate mass murder or physical extinction of a particular racial,political, or cultural group |
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Axis powers |
Alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan. As these countries tried to expand their territory after ww1, Britain and France were unwilling to take action that might start another war. Losers of ww2 surrendering in order Italy, Germany, & Japan |
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Allied powers |
Alliance between Great Britain,.France, Russia, the u.s. and other countries during ww1 and ww2. The winners of both wars |
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Appeasement |
policy of trying to avoid conflict by accepting some demands of the aggressor. |
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German Soviet non-aggression pact |
1939 agreement dividing Poland and eastern Europe into spheres of influence. Enemies, hitler & Stalin, agreed to not attack each other for a period of 10 years |
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Sanctions |
Restrictions intended to enforce international law |
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Maginot line |
French defense system build aloud the French German border. A line of concrete and steal fortifications |
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Lebensraum |
"Living space" major motivation for nazi Germany territorial aggression |
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Blitzkrieg |
The fast, forceful style of fighting used by Germany during ww2. hitler Effectively used this strategy to take control of much of Europe by 1942 |
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Luftwaffe |
German air force in ww2. Hitler effectively used this air force to take control of much of Europe by 1942 |
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Phony war |
Early phase of ww2 marked by little activity in western Europe. This period saw No fighting between axis and allied powers |
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Lend-lease act |
1941 legislation allowing the u.s. to supply war materials to great Britain on credit |
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Isolationism |
A policy of national isolation by abstention from alliances and other international political economic relations |
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The final solution |
Name given to hitlers plan to attempt to exterminate the Jewish population of Europe |
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Holocaust |
Systematic elimination of European Jews and others by the nazis |
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Island hopping |
Military strategy of capturing only certain Islands of a country and bypassing the other's. America used this strategy against the Japanese In the Pacific to gain islands that had airfields and ports |
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Manhattan project |
Codename for ww2 project to develop the first atomic bomb. The u.s., who feared a land invasion of Japan, dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in the summer of 1942 |
