World War 2 (Chapter 17) Vocab

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Appeasement

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Policy of giving in to an aggressors demands in order to keep the peace.

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Pacifism

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opposition to all war

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Neutrality Acts

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Acs the United States passed in order to avoid involvement in European war. No American ships will carry war-goods.

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Axis Powers

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Germany, Italy and Japan became the Axis powers

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Francisco Franco

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a conservative general in 1936 in Spain that led a revolt that led to a civi l war. He encouraged fascism.

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Anschluss

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the union of Austria and Germany

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Sudetenland

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a region of Western Czechoslovakia, old German empire of here. They take over.

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Nazi-Soviet Pact

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bound Hitler and Stalin to peaceful relations, and to divide up Poland.

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Blitzkrieg

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"lightning war" using improved tanks and airpower

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Luftwaffe

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German air force

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Dunkirk

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site of British troops stranded in France, and their rescue by sea.

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Vichy

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location in France of Germany's "puppet state"

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General Erwin Rommel

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German general known as the "desert fox"

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concentration camps

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Nazi detention and killing centers for civilians considered enemies of the state

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Holocaust

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the systematic genocide of about 6 million European Jews by the Nazis during World War 2

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Lend-Lease Act

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law allowing FDR to sell or lend war materials to those who were fighting for freedom

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Rosie the Riveter

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Popular name for women who worked in war industries during world war 2

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aircraft carrier

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ships that transport aircraft and accommodate the take-off and landing of airplanes

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Dwight Eisenhower

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American general who took command of a joint British and American force in Morocco and Algeria

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Stalingrad

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city in the Soviet Union that Hitler was determined to capture but failed to

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D-Day

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June 6th, 1944- the invasion of France, from the Allies.

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Yalta Conference

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Churchill, roosevelt and stalin met up to discuss the soviet union entering the war against Japan and how to divide up Germany.

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V-E Day

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Victory in Europe, May 8th, 1945- when the war officially ended in Europe

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Bataan Death March

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during WW2 the forced march of Filipino and American prisoners of war under brutal conditions by the Japanese military.

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Douglas MacArthur

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American general in charge of the "island hopping" which was leading them towards victory in Japan

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island-hopping

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Americans recapture some Japanese held islands while bypassing others. the islands were stepping stones towards japan

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kamikaze

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pilots who undertook suicide missions, crashing their explosive laden airplanes into american warships

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manhattan project

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code name for the project to build the first atomic bomb during WW2

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hiroshima

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august 6th, 1945 an american plane dropped an atomic bomb on this Japanese city

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nagasaki

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americans dropped another atomic bomb on a seperate japanese city a day later

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nuremberg

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a city in southern germany where hitler stages rallies in the 1930s and where Nazi war crime trials were held after WW2

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united nations (un)

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international organization established after WW2 with the goal of maintaining peace and cooperation in the international community

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cold war

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a state of tension and hostality between nations aligned with the US on one side and the USSR on the other, without armed conflict between the major rivals.

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Truman doctrine

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united states policy establish in 1947 of trying to contain the spread of communism

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marshall plan

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massive aid package offered by the united states to Europe to help counties rebuild after WW2

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North atlantic treaty organization (nato)

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military alliance between several norther atlantic states to safegaurd them from the presumed threat of the USSR communism; other others later joined

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warsaw pact

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mutual-defense alliance between the Soviet Union and 7 satellietes in eastern europe, set up in 1955