 | Term | Definition |
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reparations |
war damages to be paid to countries that won war |
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moratorium |
to halt or stop something |
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arms race |
race between the super powers for superiority of arms |
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washington naval conference |
conference in the 1920's held in washington D.C.; limited naval tonnage that could be built; left Japan alone in Pacific |
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dictator |
rule by one who assumes the power of force |
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totalitarian |
a dictatorship that has total control over a nation and suppresses individual freedom |
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Josef Stalin |
succeeded Lenin as Dictator of Russia (USSR) |
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Francisco Franco |
Dictator of Spain |
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pacifists |
those who would not participate in war by figjhting |
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Lenin |
Communist dictator, advocated overthrow of all capitalist governments |
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Stalin |
succeeded Lenin as dictator of Soviet Union |
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fascism |
advocated nationalism and militarism under dictatoriship |
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blitzkrieg |
lightening-quick warfare |
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luftwaffe |
name of the german air force |
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afrika korps |
name of rommel's german forces in north africa |
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royal air force |
the RAF |
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selective service |
this established the draft |
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lend-lease |
america got around its official neutrality policy by "lending" ships to great britain in return for U.S. leasing naval bases in the Atlantic |
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isolationism |
no entangling alliances |
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belligerant |
nations at war |
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neutral |
nations officially not at war |
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theaters |
a reference to the 3 arenas where WW2 was fought in North Africa, Europe, and pacific |
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Hitler |
Called Brown shirts |
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Mussolini |
Called Black Shirts |
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kamikaze |
Japanese soldiers wwho committed suicide for their military mission |
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Enola Gay |
name of aircraft taht carried the atomic bomb |
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Missouri |
The Japanese Formal surrender took place at this place. |
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anschiuss |
The annexation of Austria by Germany |
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Rosie the Riviter |
Women who worked on aircraft and other war industries |
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genocide |
deliberate annihilation of an entire people |
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island hoping |
method of warfare used by the U.S. navy of attacking and seizing only strategic islands held by the Japanese |
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internment |
forced relocation and detention of japanese Americans |
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Bataan Death march |
april 1942, Japanese take the Philippines and forced 70,00 survivors through the jungles as prisoners; over 22,00 died, brutal treatment by the Japanese |
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reciprical |
countries agreed to trade with each other |
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treaty of versailles |
treaty that ended WW1 |
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rome-berlin-tokyo axis |
the triple agreement between rome berlin and tokyo. agreed that an attack against one was an attack against all |
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axis powers |
what germany, japan, and Italy were called during WW2 |
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allied powers |
what britain france russia and us were called during WW2 |
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weimar republic |
name of german democratic government set up by Versailles treaty |
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Victor Emmanuel 2 |
King of Italy |
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Adolf Hitler |
fuhrer of germany |
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herman goering |
head of german luftwaffe |
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irwin rommel |
known as the "Dessert Fox" |
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Hiro Hito |
Imperial Emperor of Japan |
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yamamoto |
Japanese Admiral who planned attack on Pearl Harbor |
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salassie |
Emperior of Ethiopia |
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Eisenhower |
5 star, general of the army in europe and north africa and commander of D-Day invasion |
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macarthur |
5 star commanding general of the pacific army and general of the military district set up in japan after VJ day |
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chamberlain |
prime minister of great britain who used the appeasement policy |
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churchill |
prime minister of great britain during WW2 |
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patain |
head of the Vichy French government |
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roosevelt |
US president from 1932 until his death in 1944 |
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truman |
vice president under FDR who became Pres upon FDR's death and made the decision to drop the atomic bomb |
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De Gaulle |
general of france and Later president of france who took the free france and fled to britain to exile |
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Doolittle |
famous US army air corps colonel who led bombing missions on tokyo |
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patton |
famous army general who fought against the desert fox in north africa and the invasion of sicily and had his career anded bc he slapped a soldier |
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nazism |
german form of fascism |
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dejure |
diplomatic term that means recognition by one country of the legal government of another |
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defacto |
diplomatic term that means one government recognizes that the other government is in change but its not the legally elected or inherited government |
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coup d'etat |
word means a sudden attempt to overthrow government |
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dunkirk |
this was where the massive evacuation of france by the british in 1940 who used a multitude of small boats as german was closing in on ffrance |
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operation sea lion |
this was the name of the german invasion on britain aka the battle of britain |
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operation over lord |
name of the d day invasion aka battle of normady |
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3rd reich |
name of hitlers government |
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yoshikawa |
name of japanese spy who gave yamamoto all the info abt which ship were in pearl harbor, location of sub nets and best day to attack |
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spanish civil war |
this event was used as a testing ground for Hitler's armaments of war |
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vichy |
name of the french gov that was the puppet gov for germany, located in southern france |
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manchuria |
japan occupied this in 1931 |
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beerhall putsch |
hitler and his nazis tried unsuccessfully to overthrow the weimar republic in 1921 |
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holocaust |
the program of extermination/genocide of the jews carried out of Nazis, killed over 6 million jews |
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kristallnacht |
night of broken glass |
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WW2 begin |
september 1, 1939 |
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Pearl harbor attacked |
Dec 7, 1941 |
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dec 8, 1941 |
date us decalred war against japan |
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D-Day |
june 6, 1944 |
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V-E day |
may 8, 1945 |
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V-J Day |
aug 14, 1945 |
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japanese surrendered in Missouri |
Sept 1, 1945 |
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nagasaki |
2nd atomic bomb, dropped aug 9 1945 |
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hiroshima |
1st atomic bomb, dropped aug 6 1645 |
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okinawa |
pacific battle that saw bloodiest fighting june 45 |
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iwojima |
pacific battle in feb 1945, won strategic island at cost of 5000 marine deaths, famous for the flag raising on top of mountain |
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midway |
aug 1942 battle in pacific when america took its first major offensive against japan |
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battle of coral sea |
pacific battle was the first battles crucial to stopping the japanese advance and kept japan from attacking austria |
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invasion of Itaky through sicily |
invasion of europe from north africa |
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D-Day |
battle/invasion of normandy, france |
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battle of leyte gulf |
this was the reconquet of the Philippunes by General MacArthur in Feb 1945 |
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battle of britain |
this battle was ther german air attack of britain in summer of 1940 after hitler had taken poland, norway, denmar, netherlands, belgium and france |
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battle of bulge |
battle that turned tide in europe against germany when allied forced germany to be on the defensive and puched them back towards germany |
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