World War 2 Flash Cards
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Spanish Civil War | Civil War started in 1936 when the old order forced the king to leave Spain. |
| General Francisoco Franco | The leader of the revolt in 1936 that started the Spanish Civil War. |
| Rhineland | The first area invaded by Germany with no military resistance. |
| Anschluss | The union of Germany and Austria |
| Appeasement | The policy of giving in to an aggressor's demands in order to keep the peace. |
| Sudetenland | A region of western Czechoslovakia. |
| "Peace For Our Time" | Stated by Neville Chamberlain. |
| Neville Chamberlain | The British Prime Minister. |
| Nazi-Soviet Pact | The pact made between the soviets and the nazis stating that they were at peaceful relations. |
| Blitzkrieg | Lightning War |
| Sitzkrieg | The Phony War. Connection |
| Miracle of Dunkirk | 1940 battle where 300,000 allied troops were ferried back to England by a small armada of ships. |
| Viche France | The capital of France while under Nazi control. |
| The "Desert Fox" | The nickname for commander Erwin Rommel during the Africa campain. |
| The Battle of Britain | Gemany attacks Britian in 1940 and the Luftwaffe and the Royal air force battle for air superiority. Germany fails to take Britian. |
| The "Blitz" | German bombers atttacking major cities instead of military bases and airfields. |
| Winston Churchill | British Prime Minister that replaces Neville Chamberlain. |
| radar | Technology that allowed troops to "see" the locations of enemy and friendly planes. |
| sonar | Technology that allowed troops to "see" the locations of enemy and friendly submarines. |
| Operation Barbarossa | The German plan to invade the Soviet Union. |
| Siege of Leningrad | A two and a half year siege in which Hitler was equally determined to take Leningrad as Stalin was to defend it. |
| The Arsenal of Democracy | The army, navy, and air forces fighting communism and Hitler. |
| Atlantic Charter | The agreement that the United States would help defeat Germany and Japan. |
| Oil Embargo | The need of oil. |
| Pearl Harbor | On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked the US navy in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. |
| The "Final Solution" | Hitler's plan of getting ride of all European Jews. |
| Death Camps | Locations in Nazi Germany where Jews were sent to be killed. |
| Collaborators | People who helped round up Jews. |
| The co-prosperity sphere | The area not included in war and is completely isolated. |
| The Big Three | The USA, the Soviet Union, and Great Britian. |
| El Alamein | Location where the "Desert Fox" was stopped. |
| The Homefront | Fighting on your own land. |
| Stalingrad | Stalin's namestake city. |
| D-Day | Allied invasion of the beaches of Normandy. |
| Island-hopping | Taking one island at a time on the way to Japan. |
| The Battle of Midway | First naval battle where enemy ships didn't see each other. |
| V-E Day | Victory in Europe Day |
| Kamikaze | Japanese pilots who purposefully crash their planes into enemy ships. Means divine wind. |
| Hiroshima | The first site that an atomic bomb was dropped on. |
| Nagasaki | The second site that an atomic bomb was dropped on. |
| V-J Day | Victory in Japan Day |
| Holocaust | The extermination of all European Jews |
| Nuremburg | The location of a series of trials following the World War 2. |
| The United Nations | A new world peace corps. |
| "Iron Curtain" | The Berlin Wall |
| The "Cold War" | A state of tension and hostility between nations aligned with the United States on one side and the Soviet Union on the other. |
| Truman Doctrine | The idea of containing communism to Soviet controlled areas. |
| Containment | Limiting communism to the area already under Soviet control. |
| The Marshall Plan | A massive aid package. |
| The Berlin Airlift | A series of airlifts to help hostages trapped in Berlin by Stalin. |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization. |
| "Arms Race" | Race to build as many weapons as possible. |
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