AP Euro - World War II (1939-1945)
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AP Euro - World War II (1939-1945)
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AP Euro, Central Catholic High School
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Axis Powers | 1939; Germany, Italy, and Japan |
| Tripartite Treaty of 1940 | 1940; An extension of the Rome-Berlin Axis to Include Japan |
| Blitzkrieg | Germany's "Ligntning war" |
| Non-Aggression Pact of 1939 | Hitler's Agreement with Stalin over the conquering of Poland |
| Sitzkrieg | "Phony War" with Hitler in 1939-1940 where Hitler prepared for his attack |
| Maginot Line | 1939; The French defense against a German invasion |
| Miracle of Dunkirk | 1940; After Hitler conquered France and trapped the British soldiers, the British were able to ferry the British soldiers accross the English Channel to saftey |
| Vichy Government | 1940; Puppet State in France |
| (Marshall) Petain | 1940; The head of the Vichy Government |
| (Charles) De Gaulle | 1940; The leader of French resistance forces; Escaped to England to orchestrate French resistance against the Vichy Government and the Nazis |
| (Winston) Churchill | Prime Minsiter of England in 1940 and 1955; Successor to Chamberlain |
| Luftwaffe | German Air Force during the Battle for Britain |
| (Hermann) Goering | The leader of the German Luftwaffe |
| Operation Barbarossa | 1941; Hitler's offensive against Russia; Goal was to gain control of the Ukraine's wheat fields and oil fields |
| Siege of Leningrad | The battle where Hitler's soldiers waited during the cold, Russian winter |
| Lend Lease Act | 1941 March; Congress' act which alled the president to lend or sell war materials to any country he deemed vital to that country's defense |
| Big Three | The common name for British-Soviet-US economic alliance |
| Atlantic Charter | 1941 August; Roosevelt and Churchill's peace principles |
| (Bernard) Montgomery | 1942; British General who defeated German and Italian forces in North Africa |
| (Erwin) Rommel | 1942; Led German and Italian forces in North Africa at El Alamein |
| (Dwight D.) Eisenhower | 1942; American general who took command of joing Anglo-American forces in Morocco and Algiers |
| Battle fo the Coral Sea | 1942; The first battle where the US defeated Japan and both stopped their advance in the Pacific and prevented another attach on Hawaii |
| Battle of Midway | 1942; Battle between the US and Japan wheich established American naval superiority in the Pacific |
| (Douglas) MacArthur | 1942; The Americnan General who started island-hopping to capture strategic Japanese-held islands |
| Guadalcanal | The location of the first US offensive against Japan in the Solomon Islands |
| Battle of Stalingrad | 1942-1943; A six month struggle in which Soviet forces defeated Germany; The turning point in World War II |
| Casablanca | The meeting place of Roosevelt and Churchill where they decided to not surrender until the Axis surrendered unconditionally |
| (George) Patton | The Allies' General who invaded Sicily then mainland Italy; Made Mussolini resign and Italy surrender |
| Teheran | 1943; The location of the meeting of the Big Three for the first time; Agreed on postware occupation of Germany, demilitiraziton of Germany, and the creation of an international peace organization; Roosevelt promised to open up a second front through France |
| Invasion of Normandy | 1944; "D-Day"; Eisenhower directed an assault on a beach in France; Established the second front through France |
| Battle of the Bulge | 1944; Germany's last effort of a counterattach through Belgium and the Argonne Forest |
| Yalta Conference | 1945; The name of the meeting which drew the structure of postware Europe; Finally decided on the division of Germany; Stalin agreed to hold free elections in Easter Europe and to declare war against Japan in return for land lost in the Russo-Japanese war |
| Battle of Iwo Jima | 1945; Battle agasint America and Tokyo |
| VE Day | May 8, 1945; The name of the day which ended World War II |
| Potsdam Conference | 1945; The meeting of Chruchill, Stalin, and Truman to address issues of postware Gernamy and free Eastern Europe elections |
| Holocaust | The efforts of Hitler and the Nazis to destroy all of the Jews of Europe |
| Nuremberg Laws | 1935; Laws which placed severe restrictions on Jews in Germany |
| Kristallnacht | 1938; Riots against Jews which initiated a persecution of Jews |
| United Nations | 1945; An international organization to preserve peace; Proceeded the League of Nations |
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