AP World Chapter 37 Vocab Flashcards

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