| Term | Definition |
|---|
| pacifism | opposition to all war |
| appeasement | giving into the demands of an aggressor in order to keep peace |
| sanctions | penalties |
| axis powers | rome, berlin, tokyo |
| francisco franco | spain - general, was helped by hitler and moussilini |
| third reich | hitler - german master race would dominate |
| anschluss | the union of austria and germany |
| sudetenland | a region of western czechoslavakia |
| neville chamberlain | british prime minister |
| munich pact | saved caechoslavakia from destruction and europe from armageddon |
| nazi-soviet pact | bound hitler and stalin to peaceful relations, a pact was based on neutral need, agreed not to fight if the others went to war and to divide poland and other parts of eastern europe |
| invasion of poland | significant - germans invade poland two days, britain and france declare war, ww2 begins |
| blitzkrieg | lightning war |
| luftwaffe | german airforce |
| dunkirk | about 300,000 saved soldiers |
| operation sea lion | hitler plans to invade britain "the blitz", 57 nights of bombing of britain |
| general erwin rommel | "the desert fox", pushed the british back across the desert toward egypt |
| nullified | made invalid/void |
| operation barbosa | hitler voids the nazi-soviet pact and invades the soviet union, about 3 million german soldiers invaded and caught stalin unprepared |
| hitlers "new order" | hitler set up puppet government in western european countries with aryans |
| aryans | light skinned, light eyed, blue eyed - the "master race" |
| concentration camps | detention centers for people who were enemies of the state |
| genocide | murder of (like the jews) an entire religious or ethnic group |
| holocaust | massacre of 6 million jews and other people |
| japan | treated the chinese, filipinos, malaysians, and other conquered people with great brutality, killing and torture - wanted to help asians escape western colonical rule - wanted a japanese empire in asia |
| lend-lease act | allowed roosevelt to sell a land war materials to any country who the president thought was vital to the defense of the u.s. |
| atlantic charter | churchill - set goals for the war |
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