World War II and the Cold War
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| 276884903 | Yalta Conference | Event in which the Big Three met to determine what to do with Germany after it's defeat | 0 | |
| 276884904 | Wansee Conference | A meeting where Nazi leaders me to discuss the extermination of Jews. They agreed to round them up and send them to concentration camps in Poland | 1 | |
| 276884905 | Big Three | What Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt were called | 2 | |
| 276884906 | Soviet Union | This nation would receive all of Germany's colonies and half their war reparations. They then agreed to go to war with Japan after the defeat of Germany and would allow democratic elections be held in European nations | 3 | |
| 276884907 | Lend-Lease Program | A trade program made by the United States to assist Britain in the war | 4 | |
| 276884908 | Tojo Hidecki | The dictator/prime minister of Japan during WWII. | 5 | |
| 276884909 | Asia for Asians | Japan's slogan as they conquered Asia, claiming to do it to rid Asia of European powers | 6 | |
| 276884910 | Asia for Japanese | Japans true slogan as they conquered Asia. | 7 | |
| 276884911 | D-day | The day that Britain and America landed on the shores of Normandy to liberate France. | 8 | |
| 276884912 | kamikaze | Japanese fighter pilots who crashed their planes into U.S. naval carriers to sink them. | 9 | |
| 276884913 | Luftwaffe | The name of the German airforce. They played a major role when attacking Britain. | 10 | |
| 276884914 | The Blitz | The name of the invasion of Britain by the German Luftwaffe. | 11 | |
| 276884915 | Operation Barbarrossa | The attack on the Soviet by Germany. It was a breach of the non-aggression pact, but was unsuccessful due to the long stretches of cold land in the Soviet | 12 | |
| 276884916 | Fidel Castro | The revolutionary and dictator of Cuba. He supported Soviet foreign policy and almost made Cuba communist | 13 | |
| 276884917 | UN security council | The head of the UN. It consists of China, Soviet Russia, Britain, America, and France. The rest of the council are 6 other nations that are elected and rotated. | 14 | |
| 276884918 | NATO | The cold war alliance that was dedicated to containing communism | 15 | |
| 276884919 | Berlin Wall | A wall made by the Soviet to separate communist Berlin from capitalist Berlin. Any one crossing the border was shot on sight. | 16 | |
| 276884920 | COMECON | A soviet plan to counter the Marshall plan. It offered free trade to European nations and economic support. | 17 | |
| 276884921 | SEATO | The Asian alliance dedicated to preventing the spread of communism. Founded by the U.S. and worked with NATO | 18 | |
| 276884922 | Tripartite Pact | An alliance that allowed Japan to enter the Dual alliance. Making the Dual Alliance become the Axis powers | 19 | |
| 276884923 | Iron Curtain | The taking of sides across Europe right before the Cold War. Almost a separation of Europe from the Soviet block to Capitalist Europe | 20 | |
| 276884924 | Truman Doctrine | A doctrine made that said the U.S.would assist any nation that was threatened by a communist takeover | 21 | |
| 276884925 | Marshall Plan | A part of the Truman doctrine. It offered economic support to Europe in order to win their favor and contain communism | 22 | |
| 276884926 | comfort women | Women who were used by Japanese soldiers on the war front as military brothels. Many were killed to cover up the event | 23 | |
| 276884927 | detente | a releasing of tensions. Used by the Soviet and America to prevent nuclear war | 24 | |
| 276884928 | U-boats | Submarines. Mostly used by Germany to blockade Britain | 25 | |
| 276884929 | Blitzkrieg | A war technique used by Germany. It involved bombing an area then moving with infantry to quickly conquer a nation. It was done without declaring war | 26 | |
| 276884930 | Nonaggression Pact | A pact between the Soviet and Germany saying neither nation was to use any hostile actions towards the other | 27 | |
| 276884931 | Hungarian Uprising | An uprising in Hungary that tried to overthrow the communist government, but failed | 28 | |
| 276884932 | Brezhnev Doctrine | A doctrine that justified the intervention of the Soviet in the Hungarian Uprising. It said the Soviet would intervene in any communist nation that was threatened to be overthrown | 29 | |
| 276884933 | Bay of Pigs | The name of the invasion of Cuba that was led by the U.S., but actually done with Cubans who hated Castro. It failed terribly, as the invasion was small and had no air support. This increased tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet | 30 | |
| 276884934 | Anschluss | The forced union Germany imposed on Austrian. They justified it saying The Germans in Austria needed to be reunited with their home nation | 31 | |
| 276884935 | appeasement | A political tactic when one nation allows another nation to do what it wishes, even if it breaks a treaty, in order to avoid war. | 32 | |
| 276884936 | appeasement | The political tactic that Britain and France used to avoid war with Germany, even when they breached the Treaty of Versailles | 33 | |
| 276884937 | Rape of Nanjing | The terrible invasion of the Chinese city of Nanjing by Japan. There many women were raped by soldiers and many civilians were killed for "practice" | 34 | |
| 276884938 | Munich Conference | A conference held by Hitler, France, and Britain. It was where they allowed Germany to keep their newly conquered territory as long as they cease expansion. Hitler agreed | 35 | |
| 276884939 | Invasion of China | This event was the starting of WWII. It was led by Japan | 36 | |
| 276884940 | Manchuria | A territory in China that came under Japanese control. A railroad incident there gave Japan the "reason" to invade China | 37 | |
| 276884941 | Allied Powers | An alliance between Britain, France, and the Soviet to keep the balance of power in Europe | 38 | |
| 276884942 | Axis Powers | An alliance between Italy, Germany, and Japan. They all strived for their own expansionist interests | 39 | |
| 276884943 | containment | A policy made by the U.S saying that they would stop the spread of communism. A policy in the Truman Doctrine | 40 | |
| 276884944 | Peaceful coexistence | A policy made by Nikita, who said that he wanted to spread communism peacefully,not in a way that would cause war | 41 | |
| 276884945 | Cuban Missile Crisis | An event when the Soviet moved missiles into Cuba, thus directly threatening America. It was the closest point in the cold war that almost led to nuclear war | 42 | |
| 276884946 | The Final Solution | Hitler's plan to eradicate the Jews and other "undesirables". It used the S.S. tho exterminate Jews | 43 | |
| 276884947 | Nikita Khrushchev | The successor of Stalin, he wanted to make the Soviet less harsh, and de-Stalinize it. He proposed a detente and also dealt with the Cuban Missile Crisis | 44 | |
| 276884948 | domino theory | A theory made by Eisenhower. He said if one country fell to communism, it would domino effect to nations adjacent to it. | 45 | |
| 276884949 | United Nations | An organization dedicated to world peace that succeeded the League of Nations. It consisted mostly of the winning nations of WWII, and had a military that involved all the world powers | 46 | |
| 358775949 | Poland | The first nation to be invaded by Germany, starting WWII in Europe | 47 | |
| 358775950 | France | The Allied Power that was defeated by Germany at the start of WWII | 48 | |
| 358775951 | Vichy France | The part of France that remained free from German rule in WWII, but was Allied with Germany | 49 | |
| 358775952 | Pearl Harbor | The place that was bombed by the Japanese and brought America into WWII | 50 | |
| 358775953 | Neville Chamberlain | The prime minister of Britain who tried to prevent Hitler's rising to power | 51 |
