147726173 | Munich Pact | conference that was supposed to guarentee "peace in our time" | 0 | |
147726174 | Hitler | dictator of Germany responsible for the start of WWII and the Holocaust | 1 | |
147726175 | Mussolini | Fascist dictator of Italy whowas an ally of Hitler | 2 | |
147726176 | Neville Chamberlain | Leader in Britain, weak and insufficent | 3 | |
147726177 | Winston Churchill | A noted British statesman who led Britain throughout most of World War II and along with Roosevelt planned many allied campaigns. He predicted an iron curtain that would separate Communist Europe from the rest of the West. | 4 | |
147726178 | Nazi-Soviet Pact | Secret agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union; Soviet Union agreed not to attack Germany in exchange for Eastern Poland | 5 | |
147726179 | Blitz | Nighttime bombings on London and other cities | 6 | |
147726180 | Luftwaffe | German term for their airforce | 7 | |
147726181 | Panzer | German term for tank divisions | 8 | |
147726182 | Dunkirk | City in France were all of the Allied troops centered at one time; Germans did not attack the town and the Allies lived to fight another day | 9 | |
147726183 | Blitzkreig | Lightining warfare; planes ->tanks->troops | 10 | |
147726184 | Vichy France | 2/5 of France ruled as a puppet nation through Germany | 11 | |
147726185 | Atlantic Charter of 1941 | WWII alliance agreement between the United States and Britain; included a clause that recgonized the right of all people to choose the form of gov't under which they live; indicated sympathy for decolonization | 12 | |
147726186 | Pearl Harbor | Name for the harbor that the Japanse bombed; this brought the US into the war | 13 | |
147726187 | Operation Barbarosa | When the Germans broke the Nazi-Soviet Pact and attacked Russia | 14 | |
147726188 | Holocaust | The mass killing of Jews orchastrated by the Germans | 15 | |
147726189 | Final Solution | Hitler's attempt to rid Europe of any undesirables | 16 | |
147726190 | Genocide | a mass killing of a race | 17 | |
147726191 | Ghetto | an area in the city where a minority lives | 18 | |
147726192 | Eisenhower | United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany | 19 | |
147726193 | Patton | The Commander of the Allied forces in North Africa | 20 | |
147726194 | MacArthur | United States general who served as chief of staff and commanded Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II | 21 | |
147726195 | D-Day | June 6, 1944;155,000 men landed on the beaches of Normady and stormed German occupied France | 22 | |
147726196 | Stalingrad | turning point for Russia during the war; Red army victory | 23 | |
147726197 | Himmler | German Nazi who was chief of the SS and the Gestapo and who oversaw the genocide of six million Jews (1900-1945) | 24 | |
147726198 | Joseph Mengele | "doctor death" performed experiments on Jews | 25 | |
147726199 | Yamamoto | Japanese admiral who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 (1884-1943) | 26 | |
147726200 | Tojo | Japanese army officer who initiated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and who assumed dictatorial control of Japan during World War II | 27 | |
147726201 | Mobilization | to prepare one's country for war | 28 | |
147726202 | Kamikazi | Japanese suicide pilots | 29 |
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