Unit 6 - World War 2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Kellogg-Briand Pact | Agreement signed by 62 nations in 1928 that outlawed war except in cases of self-defense. |
| Appeasement Policy (Munich Pact) | France and England agree to give Hitler the Sudentenland if he promises not to attack any more nations in Europe. |
| Nonaggression Pact (Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) | Germany and the Soviets promise not to fight each other, agree to split Poland, and the Soviets gain control of Finland. |
| Lend-Lease Program | US president may sell, lend, or trade weapons with any country he chooses. |
| Blitzkrieg | Lightening War. Airplanes, tanks, and infantry. |
| Wolf Pack | German submarines used to sink ships carrying supplies and weapons across the Atlantic. |
| Phony War | Seven month stretch during which the French and British awaited the German attack. |
| Ethiopia | When the League of Nations refused to send them aid, this country fell to Italy in 1935. |
| Manchuria | Japan attacked this area in 1931. |
| Rhineland | In 1936, Germany annexed this area of land between Germany and France. |
| Austria | In 1938, in addition to taking the Sudentenland, Hitler took control of this country. |
| Poland | France and Britain declared war on Germany after Hitler invaded this country. |
| France, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Norway | Countries captured by the Germans in 1940. |
| Britain | Hitler led nightly bombing raids against this country. |
| Japan | US began an embargo against this country in 1941. |
| United States | Japan attacked this nation on December 7, 1941. |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Elected to his third term as US president in 1940. |
| Neville Chamberlain | Prime Minister of Great Britain. Signed the Munich Pact with Germany. Resigned after France fell to Germany. |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of Great Britain. Led Britain through WWII and Cold War. |
| Identify the three major Axis powers. | Germany Italy Japan |
| Identify three European nations who remained neutral during WW2. | Spain Sweden Ireland |
| Operation Torch | Allied plan to push the Axis powers out of Africa. |
| Baatan Death March | 75,000 Allied soldiers were captured in the Philippines and forced to take a 65-mile death march. |
| Coral Sea | 1st Allied victory in the Pacific. |
| Midway | Allied troops attack and sink 4 Japanese aircraft carriers. The turning point in the war. |
| Doolittle Raids | US pilots cross Japanese airspace and bomb major Japanese cities. |
| Stalingrad | Soviet winters stun and kill thousands of German soldiers. Remaining Germans are captured. |
| D-Day | The Allies cross the English Channel attacking the beaches at Normandy to liberate the country of France. |
| Battle of the Bulge | Last German offensive. Germans lose to inexperienced US troops around Christmas of 1944. |
| Elbe River | US troops attack from the west and Soviets from the east. Meet at this German river in April 1945. |
| Hiroshima | US drops atomic bomb on this city to expedite the end of WW2. |
| Identify the Big Three and the country they represent. | FDR US Churchill GB Stalin USSR |
| Identify the three fronts of World War 2. | Europe Africa Pacific |
| List two changes brought by the Nuremberg Laws. | Jews had to wear yellow stars and carry identification. |
| Island Hopping | Strategy used by Allies in Pacific. Jumped from island to island |
| Kamikaze pilots | suicide pilots who sacrificed their life for their country. |
| Code Talkers | US used Navajo Indians to send secret code. Never decoded by Japanese |
| Holocaust | Nazi's killed over 6,000,000 Jews and 3,000,000 others in concentration camps. |
| Genocide | Extermination of a race or ethnicity |
| Final Solution | Hitler's plan to eliminate all Jews |
| Kristallnacht | Night of the Broken Glass. Revenge for the killing of a German diplomat by a Jewish man. Jewish businesses and synagogues destroyed. Hundreds murdered, thousands sent to concentration camps. |
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