chapter 19 test. sections (1-2)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Reasons Hitler planned to conquer Soviet Union | Conquer Soviet Union, resettle German peasants there and use the Slavic people as slave labor to build the Third Reich |
| Sudetenland | an area un northwestern Czechoslovakia inhabited largely by Germans (Hitler demanded that Germany he given the area) |
| Rhineland | Part of Germany, it was a demilitarized area; Hitler sent troops in |
| Appeasement | satisfying reasonable demands of dissatisfied powers to achieve stability/peace |
| Neville Chamberlain | British prime minister; appeased Hitler proclaiming " peace in our time" |
| Mukden incident | 1931 Japanese soldiers disguised as Chinese attack a Japanese Railway; use this as an excuse |
| Demilitarization | area not permitted to have weapons or fortifications |
| Anti-Comintern Pact | Germany and Japan, promising a common front against communist |
| Sanctions | Restrictions intended to enforce international law |
| Anschluss | Union with Austrasia. Threatened with invasion forced annexation |
| Blitzrieg | "lightening war" used panzer divisions (300tanks) supported by airplanes. |
| Pearl Harbor | December 7, 1941 japan attacked the US naval base in Hawaii |
| Battle of Midway | where the US defeated Japanese navy and established naval superiority, considered the turning point in the war in Asia |
| Battle of Britain | German bombing od industrial and military areas, then bombing od British cities British would not surrender |
| Island Hopping | US would capture some Japanese held islands and bypassing others while moving toward Japan |
| Dunkirk | City in northern France where heroic efforts of the British Royal Navy and civilians helped evacuate 338,000 Allied troops |
| D-Day | allied forced under General Eisenhower landed history's greatest naval invasion |
| Partisans | resistance fighters (i.e. Italians who shot Mussolini) |
| Douglas MacArthur | US general, moved into the Philippines through New Guinea and S. Pacific Islands |
| V-E day | victory in Europe May 7, 1945 |
| V-J Day | Victory over Japan August 14, 1945 |
| Hiroshima | Japanese city atomic bomb was dropped on August 9, 1945 |
| Adolf Hitler | committed suicide April 1945 |
| Benito Mussolini | Dreamed of a new Roman Empire, invaded Ethiopia, sent troops to Spain |
| Chiang Kai-shek | Tried to avoid conflict with japan, greater threat from the Communist |
| Franklin Roosevelt | president of the United States, denounced the aggressors, but followed an isolationist policy |
| Winston Churchill | Britain's Prime Minister, a symbol of British strength/ determination |
| Harry Truman | US President in 1945, made decision to drop first nuclear bomb |
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