Ch.36 Flashcards

157714779	Rape of Nanjing:	Residents of Nanjing became victims of Japanese troops inflamed by war passion and sense of superiority by raping and murdering civilians	0
157714780	Triparte Pact:	A 10-year military and economic pact for Japan to align itself with the revisionist nations of Germany and Italy	1
157714781	Hitler/Nazis:	Subdued Western expanses. Tried to get rid of Jewish population through extermination	2
157714782	Anschluss:	Germany's forced union with Austria, which Hitler justified as an attempt to reintegrate all Germans into a single homeland.	3
157714783	Blitzkrieg:	"lightning war" British/German air war	4
157714784	Operation Barbosa:	Germany's attempt of invading the Soviet Union	5
157714785	Why Japan attacked Pearl Harbor:	hoped to knock out American naval capacity to clear with the way for conquest of Southeast Asia to and to create a Japanese perimeter	6
157714786	Wannsee Conference:	Nazi bureaucrats agreed to evacuate all Jews from Europe to camps in Eastern Poland to work and die.	7
157714787	Women and the War:	took jobs on factory assembly lines and joined military services. New roles were only temporary	8
157714788	Marshall Plan:	Proposed to rebuild European economies through corporation and capitalism	9
157714789	Atomic Bomb:	were dropped on civilians leaving many deaths or homeless. Both sides of the war used them.	10
157714790	Allied plan for post-war world:	NATO formed against Soviet Union aggression, meant for maintaining peace. Warsaw pact matched the collective defense policies of NATO.	11