history ww2

Terms	Definitions
Patton	U.S. military leader, kind of crazy
Chamberlain	Great Britain political leader, replaced by Churchill when Hitler abused the promise of not taking any more land
Winston Churchill	replaced Chamberlain, Great Britain political leader. he's "the man"
Hitler	Germany political leader, Nazi
Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)	U.S. president during WWII and the great depression. elected 4 times
Dwight D. Eisenhower	nicknamed "ike". US military leader. leader for the allied troops
Bernard Montgomery	Great Britain military leader. Field Marshall. nicknamed Monty
Joseph Stalin	USSR political leader
Benito Mussolini	Italian Facism Political leader. (guy on left)
Erwin Rommel	German military leader. screwed up D-day
Rhineland	area in Germany occupied by France after WWI
Sudetenland	area in Czechoslovakia, predominately German, also given to Hitler
Munich Conference	the meeting where the British and French president meet with Hitler.( Hitler says if you let me take Sudetenland, I won't take anymore. they appease him. shortly after, hitler seizes the rest of czech. )
Danzig	Baltic Sea port that is predominately German. An access route through the Polish Corridor that connects Germany to East Prussia
Nonaggression Pact	Hitler and Stalin sign this promising not to attack one another
blitzkrieg	Revolutionary, quick strike military tactic
bomb from planes, tanks go in and blow up more stuff, troops come in last and cut off supply lines	what are the 3 parts of the blitzkrieg?
Sept 1 1939	date when germany invaded poland, start of ww2
Maginot Line	that underground military fortifications in france that hitler went around to attack france
Dunkirk	place in France where Hitler called off fighting for 3 days which resulted in the sea rescue and escape of about 350,000 british/french soldiers
radar	this allowed the British to find out where the german planes were coming