McAuley World History Ch 19 vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Yalta Conference | meeting at which the Allies agreed to form a United Nations organization. |
| Isolationism | policy that initially kept the United States from becoming involved in the war against Germany |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, and Japan |
| Munich Conference | Neville Chamberlain thought the agreement reached there meant "peace for our time." |
| "Mukden incident" | used as an excuse for Japanese seizure of Manchuria |
| Kamikaze | Japanese pilots who flew suicide missions against U.S. warships |
| Tehran Conference | meeting of the Big Three to discuss the final attack on Germany |
| Nazi-soviet nonaggression pact | gave Hitler the freedom to attack Poland |
| Einsatzgruppen | special strike forces for carrying tout Nazi Final Solution |
| Vichy France | unoccupied France, governed by authoritarian regime under German control |
| Blitzkrieg | "lightning war" that utilized tanks supported by airplanes |
| Potsdam conference | meeting at which Truman demanded free elections throughout Eastern Europe. |
| appeasement | policy that sought peace and stability by satisfying the reasonable demands of dissatisfied powers |
| Allied Powers | Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States |
| Final Solution | Nazi plan for the extermination of the Jews |
| Holocaust | the slaughter European Jews by the Nazis |
| Luftwaffe | German air force |
| Blitz | British term for the German air raids. |
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