9640108209 | Adolf Hitler | German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945) | 0 | |
9640108210 | totalitarian state | country where a single party controls the government and every aspect of the lives of the people | 1 | |
9640108211 | Benito Mussolini | Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and created Fascism | 2 | |
9640108212 | Squadristi | "Armed fascists" who helped Mussolini and the League of Combat gain power | 3 | |
9640108213 | NAZI | National Socialist German Workers- Hitler's political party | 4 | |
9640108214 | Storm Troopers | Hitler's private army | 5 | |
9640108215 | Mein Kampf (My Struggle) | Hitler wrote this book in prison/ told of his intentions to eradicate the Jews | 6 | |
9640108216 | Lebensraum | Hitler's expansionist theory based on a drive to acquire "living space" for the German people | 7 | |
9640108217 | Heinrich Himmler | German Nazi who was chief of the SS and the Gestapo and who oversaw the genocide of six million Jews | 8 | |
9640108218 | Kristallnacht | "Night of Broken Glass," when Nazis attacked Jews throughout Germany | 9 | |
9640108219 | Appeasement | Accepting demands in order to avoid conflict | 10 | |
9640108220 | Mukden Incident | Japanese blew up their own railroad in Manchuria; blamed it on China. Excuse to go to war with china | 11 | |
9640108221 | Blitzkrieg | "Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland in 1939 | 12 | |
9640108222 | Dunkirk | site of British troops stranded in France, and their rescue by sea | 13 | |
9640108223 | Vichy Government | Govt. of France after German occupation at the beginning of WWII. | 14 | |
9640108224 | Luftwaffe | German Air Force | 15 | |
9640108225 | Operation Barbarossa | Hitler's plan to invade the Soviet Union | 16 | |
9640108226 | Pearl Harbor | Base in hawaii that was bombed by japan on December 7, 1941, which eagered America to enter the war. | 17 | |
9640108227 | Unconditional Surrender | giving up to an enemy without any demands or requests | 18 | |
9640108228 | General Erwin Rommel | German commander in North Africa | 19 | |
9640108229 | El Alamein | Where the British pushed Germany west to stay away from the Suez Canal | 20 | |
9640108230 | Battle at Stalingrad | Soviet victory; turning point of WWII in Eastern Europe | 21 | |
9640108231 | D-Day (Battle of Normandy) | June 6 1944. Allied troops execute a surprise attack on the beaches of Normandy, France. | 22 | |
9640108232 | Midway Battle | Pacific battle that was seen as the turning point in the Pacific campaign | 23 | |
9640108233 | General Dwight D. Eisenhower | General who led Operation "Overlord" to victory in WWII and eventually became president in 1953. | 24 | |
9640108234 | Battle of Kursk | German forces are soundly defeated by the Soviets, greatest tank battle of WWII | 25 | |
9640108235 | VE Day | Victory in Europe Day, May 8, 1945, the day the Allies won WWII in Europe | 26 | |
9640108236 | Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Truman ordered the dropping of the Atomic bomb to force Japan to surrender | 27 | |
9640108237 | VJ Day | August 15, 1945 - the Victory in Japan Day when the Japanese surrendered | 28 | |
9640108238 | Final Solution | Hitler's program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people | 29 | |
9640108239 | Einsatzgruppen | Nazi strike forces that killed innocent Jews with their infamous "death squads" | 30 | |
9640108240 | Kamikaze | Japanese suicide pilots | 31 | |
9640108241 | Decolonization | The process by which former colonies gain their independence from the mother country | 32 | |
9640108242 | Cold War | the power struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States after World War II | 33 | |
9640108243 | Teheran Conference | Meeting in 1943; Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill; confirmed their defense to crush Hitler. | 34 | |
9640108244 | Yalta Conference | 1945 strategy meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin | 35 | |
9640108245 | Potsdam Conference | The third meeting of the Big Three nations. The Soviet Union was represented by Joseph Stalin, Britain by Winston Churchill, and the United States by President Harry S. Truman. | 36 |
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