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AP Euro Review: World War II Flashcards

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384234106Maginot LineLine of defense built by France to protect against German invasion. Stretched from Belgium to Switzerland.0
384234107Engelbert DollfussChristian Socialist who became Chancellor of Austria and was assassinated in 1934.1
384234108Haile-SelassieEmperor of Ethiopia who pleaded to the League to stop Italy's invasion.2
384234109Neville ChamberlainExtremely conservative British PM during late 1930s.3
384234110Munich ConferenceAn agreement/conference that gave Germany the Sudetenland in exchange for not expanding into Europe any more.4
384234112Charles De GaulleFrench general and statesman who became very popular during World War II as the leader of the Free French forces in exile5
384234113Pierre Laval and Marshal PetainFrenchmen who governed the southern third of France and collaborated with the Nazis.6
384234114quislingsGerman collaborators7
384234115Luftwaffethe German airforce8
384234116radarDeveloped by Britain early in the war.9
384234117Battle of StalingradUnsuccessful German attack on the city of Stalingrad during World War II from 1942 to 1943, that was the furthest extent of German advance into the Soviet Union.10
384234118Tojo HidekiJapanese army officer who initiated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and who assumed dictatorial control of Japan during World War II11
384234119Erwin RommelGerman field marshal noted for brilliant generalship in North Africa during World War II.12
384234120El AlameinTown in Egypt, site of the victory by Britain's Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery over German forces led by General Erwin Rommel (the 'Desert Fox') in 1942-1943.13
384234121Douglas MacArthurUnited States general who served as chief of staff and commanded Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II14
384234122Chester W. NimitzCommander of the U.S. naval forces in the Pacific and brilliant strategist of the "island hopping" campaign15
384234123island hoppingWWII strategy of conquering only certain Pacific islands that were important to the Allied advance toward Japan16
384234124TitoYugoslav statesman who led the resistance to German occupation during World War II and established a communist state after the war (1892-1980)17
384234125OkinawaShowed that the Japanese would "fight to the death",was the scene of the last great U.S. amphibious campaign in World War II. U.S. army and marine forces18
384234126Iwo Jimaa bloody and prolonged operation on the island of Iwo Jima in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945)19
384234127Four FreedomsEmployed by Franklin Roosevelt, these were freedom of speech, worship, from want, and from fear.20
384234128Lend-Leaseallows America to sell, lend, or lease arms or other war supplies to any nation considered "vital to the defense of the U.S."21
384234129Atlantic Charter1941-Pledge signed by US president FDR and British prime minister Winston Churchill not to acquire new territory as a result of WWII and to work for peace after the war22
384234130Vichy FranceSouthern Pro-Nazi French; govern themselves as loyal to Nazis; traitors to the Free French in N. France23
384234131Final Solutionthe Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler24
384234132Einsatzgruppenmobile death units25
384234133iron curtaindivision between East and West named by Winston Churchill26

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