Flashcards: 27 WWII
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Blitzkrieg | "Lightning"-style warfare introduced by Germany in 1939. Fast-moving, mobile war style that allows the enemy no time to prepare defense. |
| Maginot Line | 1930s and 1940s. French military defenses along its eastern border. Thought to be invincible against attack. |
| Nazi-Soviet Pact | 1939 agreement between Hitler and Stalin in which Stalin agrees to stay out of Hitler's assault on Europe. |
| Battle of Britain | 1940-41 Germany bombs Britain in preparation for invasion. Gives up day bombing due to radar and RAF. Employs terrifying night bombing. Britain does not give in. Germany gives up. |
| Munich Conference (1938) | Agreement between France, Britain, Italy and Germany that Hitler could annex Czech lands in the Sudeten area |
| Sudetenland | Area along the western border of Czech that contained many German people. Hitler wanted it to unite all German people. |
| Neville Chamberlain | British Prime Minister 1937-1940. Allowed German aggression. Finally had to declare war with the German invasion of Poland. |
| Winston Churchill (1874-1965) | British Prime Minister 1940-45 & 1951-55. Led Britain through WWII. |
| Tehran conference | December 1943 meeting between FDR, Stalin and Churchill to plan Russian invasion of Germany and allied invasion of France. |
| Final Solution | Decision by Hitler that all Jews were to die. Became the Holocaust. Extermination camps were to be used to accomplish goal. |
| Erwin Rommel | German general in North Africa. Known as the Desert Fox. |
| Lebensraum | German word for Hitler's demand for expansion because of need for living space for Germans. |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy and Japan during WWII. Alliance. |
| Anschluss | Hitler's dream of uniting Germany and Austria. Achieved in 1938. |
| Casablanca conference | January 1943 meeting between Churchill and FDR to make plans for the invasion of Sicily. |
| Potsdam Conference | July 1945. Truman, Attlee, Stalin meet in German city to continue the forming of post war agreements started at Yalta. |
| D-Day-June 6 | 1944, Largest sea invasion in history launched at Normandy beaches in France. Allies attempt to regain France. |
| Battle of the Bulge | Last offensive effort of German army in Europe (December 1944). Took place in Ardennes Forest of Belgium. |
| Miracle at Dumkirk | May 29-June 2, 1940. Place where citizens with boats rescued French, British and Belgian soldiers and took them to Britain to escape Nazi capture. |
| Yalta Conference | Meeting of the Big Three in February 1945 to begin discussions for the political divisions of Europe. Took place on the Crimea in the Black Sea. |
| Genocide | Systematic killing of a race or ethnic group. |
| Iron Curtain | The ring put around the USSRs satellite countries of eastern Europe in the late 1940s to force a break in contact with western nations. |
| Big Three | What FDR, Stalin and Churchill were known as. |
| Vichy Government | WWII. French government in Southern France friendly to German occupation. Led by Marshal Petain. Considered traitors. |