Terms : Hide Images
| 63411624 | Blitzkrieg | German style of rapid attack through the use of armor and air power that was used in Poland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, and France in 1939-1940 | 0 | |
| 63411625 | Battle of Britain | launched by the Germans; led by its air force, the Luftwaffe; hoped to defeat Britain almost solely through air attacks' the Blitz as the British called this air war, rained bombs on heavily populated metropolitan areas, especially London; The Royal Air Force staved off defeat, however forcing Hitler to abandon plans to invade Britain | 1 | |
| 63411626 | Kamikaze | A Japanese term meaning "divine wind" that is related to the storms that destroyed Mongol invasion fleets; the term is symbolic of Japanese isolation and was later taken by suicide pilots in WWII | 2 | |
| 63411627 | The "final" solution | Nazi solution that entailed the attempted murder of every Jew living in Europe | 3 | |
| 63411628 | Comfort Women | consisted of as many as 300,000 women aged 14-20 to serve in military brothels called "comfort houses" or "consolation centers" presented the women to the troops as gift from the emperor; women came from Japanese colonies such as Korea, Taiwan, Manchuria, and occupied territories in the Philippines; forced into the imperial prostitution service; catered to 20-30men each day | 4 | |
| 63411629 | Truman Doctrine | US policy instituted in 1947 by President Harry Truman in which the United States would follow an interventionist foreign policy to contain communism | 5 | |
| 63411630 | Marshall Plan | U.S. plan, officially called the European Recovery Program, that offered financial and other economic aid to all European states that had suffered from WWII, including Soviet bloc states | 6 | |
| 63411631 | NATO | The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which was established by the United States in 1949 as regional military alliance against Soviet expansionism | 7 | |
| 63411632 | Warsaw Pact | Warsaw Treaty Organization, a military alliance formed by Soviet bloc nations in 1955 in response to rearmament of West Germany and its inclusion in NATO | 8 | |
| 63424315 | Winston Churchill | 1874-1965; prime minister of Britain; Worked w/ Joseph Stalin and President Franklin D. Roosevelt in wartime conferences that were held at Yalta and Potsdam | 9 | |
| 63424316 | Tojo Hideki | 1884-1948; a defense minister general who assumed the office of prime minister; set his cabinet set in motion for plans of war against Great Britain and the US | 10 | |
| 63424317 | Harry S. Truman | assumed presidency after Roosevelt's death | 11 | |
| 63424318 | Rape of Nanjing | brutal warfare against civilians and repressive occupation where Japanese forces used methods of warfare that led to mass death and suffering; Japanese soldiers raped 7,000 women, murdered hundreds of thousands of unarmed soldiers and civilians, and burned 1/3 of the homes in Nanjing | 12 | |
| 63424319 | Munich Conference | held in September 1938; where European politicians formulated the policy known as appeasement; representatives from Italy, France, Great Britain, and Germany were there; revealed how most nations outside the revisionist sphere had decided to deal w/ territorial expansion by aggressive nations | 13 | |
| 63424320 | Russian-German Treaty of Nonaggression | signed in August 1939 by the foreign ministers of the Soviet Union and Germany; where the two nations agreed not to attack each other and there would be neutrality in the event that either of them went to war w/ a third party; a secret protocol divided eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence; gave German control over western Poland while granting the Soviet Union eastern Poland, eastern Romania, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania | 14 | |
| 63424321 | Axis Powers | Japan, Germany, and Italy; the name of the alignment between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy | 15 |
