Vocab for class at Niceville HS. The list is chapter 29.
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| 9641049 | Anschluss | The annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938. | 0 | |
| 9641050 | Anti-Comintern Pact | Between Hitler and Japan; offered security against Russia. | 1 | |
| 9658798 | Atlantic Charter | August 1941; called for peace without territorial expansion or secret agreements, and for free elections, and self-determination for all liberated nations. | 2 | |
| 9658799 | Casablance Conference | Resolved to accept nothing less than unconditional surrender of Axis powers. | 3 | |
| 9658800 | Neville Chamberlain | 1938; gullible British Prime Minister; declared that Britain and France would fight if Hitler attacked Poland. | 4 | |
| 9658801 | Winston Churchill | 1874-1965; greatest wartime leader; rallied the British with his speeches, infectious confidence, and bulldog determination; known for his "iron curain" speech; led the British during World War II; agreed Hitler should be conquered; was thrown out by his own people. | 5 | |
| 9658802 | D-Day | June 6, 1944; Americans and British forces under General Dwight Eisenhower landed on the beaches of Normandy; this was history's greatest naval invasion. | 6 | |
| 9658803 | Battle of Stalingrad | Turning point for Germany in the war. | 7 | |
| 9658804 | Edouard Daladier | French leader of the radical sociallists; accepted Hitler's terms for peace. | 8 | |
| 9658805 | Francisco Franco | Spanish General; organized the revolt in Morooco, which led to the Spanish Civil War. Leader of the Nationalists - right wing, supported by Hitler and Mussolini, won the Civil War after three years of fighting. | 9 | |
| 9658806 | Lebensaum | Room to move. Phrase used by Hitler to justify invasion of other countries. | 10 | |
| 9658807 | Lend-Lease Program | In 1941, the US lent money and resources to the European states to help reconstruction. | 11 | |
| 9658808 | Maginot Line | Line of defense builti by France to protect against German invasion. Stretched from Belgium to Switzerland. | 12 | |
| 9658809 | Munich Conference | 1938; Chamberlain, France and other countries (not the USSR); they agreed that Sudentenland should be ceded to Germany; Chamberlain secured peace with Germany. | 13 | |
| 9658810 | Pacificism | Anabaptists laid great stress on this; they would not run for office or serve in the armed forces; not being involved in many wars. | 14 | |
| 9658811 | Potsdam Conference | Brought forward many differences over east Europe; postwar conference in July of 1945; Stalin would not allow any type of freely elected government in east European countries; Roosevelt had died and was succeeded by Harry Truman, who demanded free elections. | 15 | |
| 9712710 | Rome-Berlin Axis | 1936; close cooperation between Italy and Germany, and soon Japan joined; resulted from Hitler; who had supported Ethiopia and Italy, he overcame Mussolini's lingering doubts about the Nazis. | 16 | |
| 9712711 | Erwin Rommel | "Desert Fox"-May 1942; German and Italian armies were led by him and attacked British occupied Egypt and the Suez Canal for the second time; were defeated at the Battle of El Alamein; was moved to France to oversee the defenses before D-Day; tried to assassinate Hitler. | 17 | |
| 9712712 | Russo-German Nonaggression Pact | Hitler and Stalin promised to remain neutral if either country were to become involved in was; August 1939. Was supposed to last 10 years, but Hitler invaded Russian in 1941. | 18 | |
| 9712713 | Joseph Stalin | Communist statesman; leader of Bolshevik Party; became ruler of USSR after Lenin; assumed full military and political leadership. | 19 | |
| 9712714 | Sudetenland | Hitler wanted German speaking people in West Czech; this would be given to Germany. | 20 | |
| 9712715 | Teheran Conference | Meeting in 1943; Stalin, Roosevelt, CHurchill; confirmed their defense to crush Hitler. | 21 | |
| 9712716 | Yalta Conference | On the Black Sea; the Big Three met in February 1945 in southern Russia; it was agreed that Germany would be divided into zones of occupation and would pay heavy reparations to the Soviet Union in the form of agricultural and industrail goods; when the Big Three met in 1945 at Yalta in southern Russia they agreed that east European governments were to be freely elected but pro-soviet. | 22 | |
| 9712717 | Konrad Adenauer | Chancellor of Germany in 1949; the former mayor of Cologne and a long-time anti-Nazi, who began his long highly successful democratic rule; West Germany had a majority of Christan Demograts; helped regain respect for Germany | 23 |
