59415498 | Winston Churchill | Britain's new prime minister during WWII who pleaded for US aid | 0 | |
59415499 | Tojo Hideki | Japanese army officer who initiated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; dictator of Japan in WWII, tried and executed as war criminal | 1 | |
59415500 | Rape of Nanjing | Japanese attack on Chinese capital from 1937-1938 when Japanese aggressorts slaughtered 100,000 civilians and raped thousands of women in order to gain control of China | 2 | |
59415501 | Munich Conference | 1938 conference at which European leaders attempted to appease Hitler by turning over the Sudetenland to him in exchange for promise that Germany would not expand Germany's territory any further. | 3 | |
59415502 | Axis Powers | Included Italy, Germany, Japan, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria | 4 | |
59415503 | Blitzkrieg | German lightning warfare. Characterized by highly mobility and concentrated forces at point of attack. | 5 | |
59415504 | 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. | 6 | |
59415505 | Operation Barbarossa | codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. | 7 | |
59415506 | Kamikaze | a fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War II | 8 | |
59415507 | The final solution | The Nazi cover-up name for the plan to annihilate all of the Jews | 9 | |
59415508 | Comfort women | women forcibly recruited by the japanese army to serve in military brothels | 10 | |
59415509 | Truman Doctorine | A US policy announced by President Harry Truman of providing economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents | 11 | |
59415510 | Marshall Plan | he proposed massive and systematic American economic aid to Europe to revitalize the European economies after WWII and help prevent the spread of Communism | 12 | |
59415511 | NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries | 13 | |
59415512 | Warsaw Pact | treaty signed in 1945 that formed an alliance of the Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain; USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania | 14 |
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