My AP world History chapter 30 terms
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| 59131322 | National Socialist | Also known as the Nazi party; led by Adolf Hitler in Germany; picked up political support during the economic chaos of the Great Depression; advocated authoritarian state under a single leader, aggressive foreign policy to reverse humiliation of the Treaty of Versailles; took power in Germany in 1933. | 0 | |
| 59131323 | Winston Churchill | British prime minister during World War II; responsible for British resistance to German air assaults. | 1 | |
| 59131324 | Blitzkreig | German term for lightning warfare; involved rapid movement of troops, tanks, and mechanized carriers; resulted in early German victories over Belgium, Holland, and France in World War II. | 2 | |
| 59131325 | Vichy | French collaborationist government established in 1940 in southern France following defeat of French armies by the Germans. | 3 | |
| 59131326 | Battle of Britain | an aerial battle fought in World War II in 1940 between the German Luftwaffe (air force), which carried out extensive bombing in Britain, and the British Royal Air Force, which offered successful resistance. | 4 | |
| 59131327 | Holocaust | Term for Hitler's attempted genocide of European Jews during World War II; resulted in deaths of 6 million Jews. | 5 | |
| 59131328 | Battle of the Bulge | December, 1944-January, 1945 - After recapturing France, the Allied advance became stalled along the German border. In the winter of 1944, Germany staged a massive counterattack in Belgium and Luxembourg which pushed a 30 mile "bulge" into the Allied lines. The Allies stopped the German advance and threw them back across the Rhine with heavy losses., last German offensive against the invading allies, Germany lost | 6 | |
| 59131329 | Pearl Harbor | American naval base in Hawaii; attack by Japanese on this facility in December 1941 crippled American fleet in the Pacific and caused entry of United States into World War II. | 7 | |
| 59131330 | Battle of the Coral Sea | May 1942; Amer. and Australia stopped Japan's advance ; Allies intercepted the Japanese fleet as it attempted to take more territory; fought entirely by carrier-based planes | 8 | |
| 59131331 | Midway Island | pivotal battle won by Admiral Nimitz, it deprived Japan of a strategic base and without which the US might have been compelled to negotiate a cease fire in the Pacific | 9 | |
| 59131332 | United Nations | International organization formed in the aftermath of World War II; included all of the victorious Allies; its primary mission was to provide a forum for negotiating disputes. | 10 | |
| 59131333 | Tehran Conference | Meeting among leaders of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union in 1943; agreed to the opening of a new front in France. | 11 | |
| 59131334 | Yalta Conference | February, 1945 - Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin met at Yalta to make final war plans, arrange the post-war fate of Germany, and discuss the proposal for creation of the United Nations as a successor to the League of Nations. They announced the decision to divide Germany into three post-war zones of occupation, although a fourth zone was later created for France. Russia also agreed to enter the war against Japan, in exchange for the Kuril Islands and half of the Sakhalin Peninsula. | 12 | |
| 59131335 | Potsdam | Meeting among leaders of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union just before the end of World War II in 1945; Allies agreed upon Soviet domination in Eastern Europe; Germany and Austria to be divided among victorious Allies. | 13 | |
| 59131336 | Total War | Warfare of the 20th century; vast resources and emotional commitments of belligerent nations were marshaled to support military effort; resulted from impact of industrialization on the military effort reflecting technological innovation and organizational capacity. | 14 | |
| 59131337 | Atlantic Charter of 1941 | World War II alliance agreement between the United States and Britain; included a clause that recognized the right of all people to choose the form of government under which they live; indicated sympathy for decolonization. | 15 | |
| 59131338 | Quit India Movement | Mass civil disobedience campaign that began in the summer of 1942 to end British control of India | 16 | |
| 59131339 | Muslim League | Founded in 1906 to better support demands of Muslims for separate electorates and legislative seats in Hindu-dominated India; represented division within Indian nationalist movement | 17 | |
| 59131340 | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Muslim nationalist in India; originally a member of the National Congress party; became leader of Muslim League; traded Muslim support for British during World War II for promises of a separate Muslim state after the war; first president of Pakistan. | 18 | |
| 59131341 | Convention Peoples Party | Political party established by Kwame Nkrumah in opposition to British control of colonial legislature in Gold Coast | 19 | |
| 59131342 | Jomo Kenyatta | Leader of the nonviolent nationalist party in Kenya; organized the Kenya Africa Union (KAU); failed to win concessions because of resistance of white settlers; came to power only after suppression of the Land Freedom Army, or Mau Mau | 20 | |
| 59131343 | Kenya African Union | This replaced the KCA, it was multi-ethnic the main goal was independence Kenyatta became the president of the KAU. | 21 | |
| 59131344 | Land Freedom Army | Radical organization for independence in Kenya; frustrated by failure of nonviolent means, initiated campaign of terror in 1952; referred to by British as the Mau Mau. | 22 | |
| 59131345 | National Liberation Front | Radical nationalist movement in Algeria; launched sustained guerilla war against France in the 1950s; success of attacks led to independence of Algeria in 1958. | 23 | |
| 59131346 | Secret Army Organization | Organization of French settlers in Algeria; led guerrilla war following independence during the 1960s; assaults directed against Arabs, Berbers, and French who advocated independence. | 24 | |
| 59131347 | Afrikaner National Party | Emerged as the majority party in the all-white South African legislature after 1948; advocated complete independence from Britain; favored a rigid system of racial segregation called apartheid. | 25 | |
| 59131348 | Apartheid | Policy of strict racial segregation imposed in South Africa to permit the continued dominance of whites politically and economically. | 26 | |
| 59131349 | Haganah | Zionist military force engaged in violent resistance to British presence in Palestine in the 1940s | 27 |
