Mcauley World History Ch. 19
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Woodrow Wilson | came up with the idea for the League of Nations |
| US, Germany, Soviet Union | three key countries that were not involved in the League of Nations |
| no | Was the League of Nations very forceful? |
| Rhineland | a DMZ on Germany's border with France |
| The Treaty of Versailles | said that Germany could never put soldiers into the Rhineland; said that Hitler could not sign any treaties; made Germany return Sudetenland |
| Anti-Cominterm Pact | against communism, signed by Italy, Germany, and Japan |
| Anschluss | the vote that Austria took about joining forces with Germany |
| Sudetenland | land scattered throughout what later became Czechoslovakia |
| Munich Conference | 1938 conference at which European leaders attempted to appease Hitler by turning over the Sudetenland to him in exchange for promise that Germany would not expand Germany's territory any further |
| Neville Chamberlain | accused of appeasement when he basically gave Sudetenland to Germany |
| Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact | Germany and Soviet Union promised not to attack each other,leads to the invasion of Poland |
| Polish Corridor | area near Prussia that Hitler really wants |
| September 1, 1939 | date that Hitler invades Poland, marking the start of WWII |
| Great Britain | after Poland and France, this is the last country that Hitler needs to invade in Europe |
| Battle of the Atlantic | German submarines versus English shipping |
| Blitz | air battle over England |
| Luftwaffe | German Air Force |
| RAF | British Air Force |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of England; takes power after Chamberlain |
| V-1 and V-2 | German rockets invented around 1945 |
| June 22, 1941 | Operation Barbarossa; Germany's invasion of Soviet Union |
| attacking the Soviet Union before England drops out | Hitler's biggest mistake in Operation Barbarossa |
| size and freezing winters | Soviet Union's advantages |
| water and Navy | England's advantages |
| north to Leningrad, straight to Moscow, and south to Kiev | direction that Germany's troops head towards Russia |
| Scorched-Earth Policy | military tactic in which soldiers destroy everything in their path to hurt the enemy |
| slows it down | What does Russia do that final stops the Blitzkrieg? |
| 900 days | length of the siege of Leningrad |
| Battle of Stalingrad | a 1942-1943 battle of World War II, in which German forces were defeated in their attempt to capture the city of Stalingrad in the Soviet Union thanks to harsh winter;turning point of war in Eastern Europe... BIGGEST, MOST IMPORTANT BATTLE IN ALL OF WORLD HISTORY |
| El Alamein | fought in 1942 in South Africa near the Suez Canal |
| Bernard Montgomery | British General at El Alamein |
| Erwin Rommel | German General at El Alamein; also called "Desert Fox" |
| 1942 | if a battle happened after this year, Hitler lost |
| December 7, 1941 | Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was bombed |
| June 6, 1944 | invasion of Normandy; D-Day; supposed to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation |
| Torgau | town in Germany where the Americans and Soviets met up to take over Germany |
| Russians | country that got to take over Berlin |
| Berlin | Hitler lived in a bunker under this city |
| Eva Braun | Hitler's wife |
| April 30, 1945 | day that Hitler committed suicide |
| May 7, 1945 | Germany finally surrenders and the war in Europe is over |
| Nuremberg Trials | a series of court proceedings held in Germany, after World War II, in which Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes |
| Manchuria Railway Company | Manchuria was effectively controlled by this place |
| "puppet state of Manchuko" | Japanese gov't set this up after they took over Manchuria |
| Pu Yi | puppet Emperor of Manchuko |
| V. A. G. R. Bulwer-Lytton | head of the Lytton Commission |
| March 27, 1933 | Japan plans to leave the League of Nations |
| "Asia for the Asiatics" | Japan's excuse to take places over; Asians should rule Asia |
| Battle of Midway | major naval battle of the Pacific Theater |
| June 4, 1942 to June 7, 1942 | dates of the Battle of Midway |
| Battle of Stalingrad and El Alamein | two major battles in Europe in 1942 |
| Chester Nimitz | in charge of the American fleet in the Pacific |
| aircraft carriers | ships that are suddenly important in WWII |
| Operation Magic | system where the US could decode Japanese messages |
| island hopping | the American navy attacked islands held by the Japanese in the Pacific Ocean; the capture of each successive island from the Japanese brought the American navy closer to an invasion of Japan. |
| Iwo Jima and Okinawa | two important Japanese islands captured by American forces |
| Kamikaze Pilots | teenage Japanese boys who volunteered to fly planes with bombs bolted to them into American ships |
| Yalta Conference | located in the Soviet Union; Churchill, FDR, and Stalin attend (the big three); discuss the plan for the future |
| Potsdam Conference | located in Germany; Clement Attlee (England), Harry S. Truman, and Stalin attend; Stalin takes advantage of the other 2; Truman says that Japan better surrender unconditionally |
| Little Boy | bomb dropped on Hiroshima |
| Fat Man | bomb dropped on Nagasaki |
| August 6, 1945 | first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima |
| August 9, 1945 | second atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki |
| Manhattan Project | code name for the building of the atomic bomb |
| Los Alamos | place in New Mexico where scientists went to try to figure out how to build an atomic bomb |
| Oak Ridge, Tennessee | over 100,000 workers were here to try to take Uranium and get it into a bomb; made the material to make the bomb |
| Trinity Site | place in New Mexico where the bombs were tested |
| B-29 Enola Gay | dropped the bomb over Hiroshima |
| Boxcar | dropped the bomb over Nagisaki |
| August 15, 1945 | Japan surrenders |
| September 2, 1945 | the day Japan formally surrendered |
| Douglas MacArthur | accepts Japan's surrender |
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