Chapter 39 Flashcards

59415498	Winston Churchill	Britain's new prime minister during WWII who pleaded for US aid	0
59415499	Tojo Hideki	Japanese army officer who initiated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; dictator of Japan in WWII, tried and executed as war criminal	1
59415500	Rape of Nanjing	Japanese attack on Chinese capital from 1937-1938 when Japanese aggressorts slaughtered 100,000 civilians and raped thousands of women in order to gain control of China	2
59415501	Munich Conference	1938 conference at which European leaders attempted to appease Hitler by turning over the Sudetenland to him in exchange for promise that Germany would not expand Germany's territory any further.	3
59415502	Axis Powers	Included Italy, Germany, Japan, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria	4
59415503	Blitzkrieg	German lightning warfare. Characterized by highly mobility and concentrated forces at point of attack.	5
59415504	Battle of Britain	an aerial battle fought in World War II in 1940 between the German Luftwaffe (air force), which carried out extensive bombing in Britain, and the British Royal Air Force, which offered successful resistance.	6
59415505	Operation Barbarossa	codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II.	7
59415506	Kamikaze	a fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War II	8
59415507	The final solution	The Nazi cover-up name for the plan to annihilate all of the Jews	9
59415508	Comfort women	women forcibly recruited by the japanese army to serve in military brothels	10
59415509	Truman Doctorine	A US policy announced by President Harry Truman of providing economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents	11
59415510	Marshall Plan	he proposed massive and systematic American economic aid to Europe to revitalize the European economies after WWII and help prevent the spread of Communism	12
59415511	NATO	North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries	13
59415512	Warsaw Pact	treaty signed in 1945 that formed an alliance of the Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain; USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania	14