335177108 | Maginot Line | French plan that is war does come, they would fight behind this line of fortifications on this line on the eastern frontier facing germany (Switzerland to Belgium) | 0 | |
335177109 | Neville Chamberlain | Prime minister of England in 1937, architect of appeasement policy, yielded to the legitimate demands of the dictators, noncommittal | 1 | |
335177110 | Saar Plebiscite | January 1935, under stipulations of Versailles Treaty, voted for union of the Third Reich | 2 | |
335177111 | Remilitarization of the Rhine | going against the treaty of Versailles, german troops occupied the Rhineland, talk of French Action but non because England didn't feel the need to stop it | 3 | |
335177112 | Haile Selassie | Ethiopian Emperor who called for more action in Geneva, in response to Ethiopia being defeated in 1936 | 4 | |
335177113 | Anschluss | after German forces moved into Austria in March 1938, Austria and Germany became a union | 5 | |
335177114 | Spanish Popular Front | all groups to the left, from anarchists to republicans, joined together to get rid of the monarchists, won in elections of 1936 and launched reform programs | 6 | |
335177115 | Francisco Franco | led an insurrection against republican government, won civil war in 1939 and established authoritative Fascist regime | 7 | |
335177116 | Rome-Berlin Axis | Mussolini and Hitler came to an understanding, one day hoped they would be the diplomatic axis in which the world turned | 8 | |
335177117 | Anti-Comintern Pact | Japan, Germany, Italy and agreement to oppose communism, basis for diplomatic allies | 9 | |
335177118 | Sudeten Germans | Germans in Czechoslovakia fell under German control, who were trying to relieve grievances not promote national socialism | 10 | |
335177119 | Nazi-Soviet Pact | August 23 1939, treaty of nonaggression and friendship, would divide Poland, Russia could have Baltic influence under stipulation they wouldn't join the war | 11 | |
335177120 | Blitzkrieg | lightening warfare, rapid military advancement, best shown by the german attack on Poland | 12 | |
335177121 | Russo-Finnish War | Finland refused to listen to Russian demands, so Soviets attacked and Finnish resisted with French and Great Britain support | 13 | |
335177122 | Dunkirk | British and French troops were evacuated from the beaches in repines to Hitler's "trap" | 14 | |
335177123 | Vichy France | the northern 2/3 of France was occupied by Nazi Germany, so the remaining part was run out of Vichy, Nazi collaboration government | 15 | |
335177124 | Festung Europa | All civilians worked under close German supervision for the german war industry, garrisoned Europe with solders, fortress of Europe | 16 | |
335177125 | Vidkun Quisling | Model sympathizer who organized Norwegian fascist part in 1933 and was premier from 1942 to 1945 | 17 | |
335177126 | Four Freedoms | United States promised to make world safe for freedom of speech, worship and freedom from fear and from want | 18 | |
335177127 | Lend-Lease | US provides arms, raw materials and food to those in war against the axis | 19 | |
335177128 | Ultra | British Royal Air Force fought off Germany with this operation that broke the code of German communications | 20 | |
335177129 | El Alamein | final British stand against German Rummel and his troops, with their backs to the Suez, where finally able to hold the Germans | 21 | |
335177130 | Capture of Singapore | Japan captured British naval base that was the Gibraltar of the east, showed military dominance with the sinking of The Prince of Wales | 22 | |
335177131 | Albert Speer | organization genius who coordinated labor and resources in the next two years, tripled armaments production | 23 | |
335177132 | Battle of the Atlantic | German submarines were in control of the Atlantic, blockading, gradually won be american and british forces as submarine threat was reduced to tolerable amounts in 1943 | 24 | |
335177133 | Siege of Leningrad | large Siege by german troops, Hitler trying to win Russia | 25 | |
335177134 | Stalingrad | August 1942 huge german offensive on Stalingrad, but red army was able to push out germans, lead to huge westward push and USSR on the offensive | 26 | |
335177135 | Admiral Darlan | Vichy France leader who assisted the allies in assuming control in North Africa, but was assassinated | 27 | |
335177136 | Invasion of Sicily | July-August 1943, Allies conquered the island of Sicily, Mussolini fell and lead to battle on the mainland, Italy (part not occupied by Germany) is cobelligerant | 28 | |
335177137 | plot of July 20, 1944 | resistance movement attempted to assassinate Hitler by exploding a bomb at military headquarters in East Prussia, only injured | 29 | |
335177138 | Final Solution | would fix the jewish problem, in which jews were killed in a systematic, modern, orderly way, annihilation of a race | 30 | |
335177139 | Wannsee Meeting | high level Nazis decided the final solution, which Hitler had agitated for so many years | 31 | |
335177140 | Battle of the Bulge | Hitler offense in Dec of 1944, Belgian sector of the Ardennes on american forces that cause heavy loses in the allied push forward | 32 | |
335177141 | Dresden | city in Germany that was destroyed by Allied bombing | 33 | |
335177142 | Katyn Forest Massacre | in 1940, Soviet Union had shot prisoners of war and officers in Poland because of their joining with germany in the partition of Poland | 34 | |
335177143 | Leyte Golf | Oct 1944, Americans defeated Japanese in an impressive battle | 35 | |
335177144 | Atlantic Charter | Roosevelt and Churchill, pledged sovereign rights and self government would be restored, would have access to trade, improve economy and security | 36 | |
335177145 | Casablanca Conference | January 1943, resolved to accept nothing less than then unconditional surrender | 37 | |
335177146 | United Nations | international organization that would act as a police, serve to the peace and security of the world, security council would have veto on importance decisions | 38 | |
335177147 | Curzon line | russian-polish of Poland behind this line, and would be compensated for lost territory in the west | 39 | |
335177148 | Potsdam Conference | July 1945, after german collapse, big three met again and made decisions of german defeat conditions | 40 | |
335177149 | Oder-Neisse Boundaries | this river divided Germany and Poland, westward compensation for Russian expansion | 41 | |
335177150 | Declaration of Liberated Europe | promised sovereign rights of democratic self determination, to precent Stalin from total control in east and central Europe | 42 |
A.P. European History-Unit XIX: The Second World War Flashcards
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