European History AP - ch 29 World War II and beyond Flashcards

Vocab for class at Niceville HS. The list is chapter 29.

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