Ap world history Flashcards
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63414791 | appeasement | Satisfying the demands of dissatisfied powers in an effort to maintain peace and stability. | 0 | |
63414792 | blitzkrieg | "Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland n 1939 | 1 | |
63414793 | collaborator | an associate who works with others toward a common goal | 2 | |
63414794 | cold war | A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted eachother on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years. | 3 | |
63414795 | containment | a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate pecefully | 4 | |
63414796 | pacifism | opposition to war or violence | 5 | |
63414797 | genocide | systematic killing of a racial or cultural group | 6 | |
63414798 | Holocaust | the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler | 7 | |
63414799 | kamikaze | a fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War II | 8 | |
63414800 | Winston Churchill | Britain's new prime minister during WWII who pleaded for US aid | 9 | |
63414801 | Harry Truman | elected Vice President in Roosevelt's 4th term | 10 | |
63414802 | Allied Powers | Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia, and later the US | 11 | |
63414803 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | President of the US during Great Depression and World War II | 12 | |
63414804 | Stalin | Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953) | 13 | |
63414805 | Pearl Harbor | United States military base on Hawaii that was bombed by Japan, bringing the United States into World War II. Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941. | 14 | |
63414806 | Axis | in World War II the alliance of Germany and Italy in 1936 which later included Japan and other nations | 15 | |
63414807 | Haile Selassie | emperor of Ethiopia | 16 | |
63414808 | Francisco Franco | Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death (1892-1975) | 17 | |
63414809 | Marshall Plan | a United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952) | 18 | |
63414810 | The Big Three | Nickname of the leaders for the Allies | 19 | |
63414811 | Hiroshima | a port city on the southwestern coast of Honshu in Japan | 20 | |
63414812 | Hirohito | emperor of Japan who renounced his divinity and became a constitutional monarch after Japan surrendered at the end of World War II (1901-1989) | 21 | |
63414813 | Dwight Eisenhower | United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany | 22 | |
63414814 | Adolf Hitler | German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945) | 23 | |
63414815 | D-Day | planned June 5th June 6 1944 Germans occupied Normandy France Germans though it would occur at Calais and goal was to liberate Paris | 24 | |
63414816 | Sudetenland | an area in western Czechoslovakia that was coveted by Hitler | 25 |