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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 shirer | United States broadcast journalist who was in Berlin at the outbreak of World War II (born in 1904) |
| Schuschnigg | Austrian prime minister who would not be intimidated by Hitler, allowed Austrian citizens to vote on whether to unify with Germany |
| Neville Chamberlain | British statesman who as Prime Minister pursued a policy of appeasement toward fascist Germany (1869-1940) |
| edouard balladur | radical french politician; prime minister of france in the beginning of the war |
| Churchill | British Prime Minister who opposed the policy of appeasement and led Great Britain through World War II |
| Petain | leader of the new French government which sued for armistice from Germany |
| Degaulle | 1939-1945 france ww2 french general hero led free french |
| anschluss | union of Austria and Germany |
| munich pact | Signed in 1938 between Great Britain, Gemany, and France that gave part of Czechoslovakia to Germany; Chamberlain said it guaranteed "peace in our time" |
| appeasement | Satisfying the demands of dissatisfied powers in an effort to maintain peace and stability. |
| blitzkrieg | fight a quick and surprising war |
| ribbentrop | Foreign Minister of Germany 1938-1945; treaty with Russia |
| sitzkrieg | "Phony War" with Hitler in 1939-1940 where Hitler prepared for his attack |
| non-aggression pact | 1939-Secret agreement between German leader Hitler and Soviet Leader Stalin not to attack one another and to divide Poland |
| September 1, 1939 | Germany invades Poland |
| maginot line | Line of defense built by France to protect against German invasion. Stretched from Belgium to Switzerland. |
| battle of britain | the prolonged bombardment of British cities by the German Luftwaffe during World War II and the aerial combat that accompanied it |
| royal air force | the airforce of Great Britain |
| sudetenland | an area in western Czechoslovakia that was coveted by Hitler |
| dunkirk | a city in northern France on the North Sea where in World War II (1940) 330,000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk in a desperate retreat under enemy fire |
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