Ch. 37 Flashcards

59577432	Winston Churchill	Britain's new prime minister during WWII who pleaded for US aid	0
59577433	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
59577434	Harry S. Truman	President of the US after Roosevelt's death; approved the use of the atomic bomb against Japan	2
59577435	Rape of Nanjing	the massacre of 200,000 to 300,000 Chinese civilians in Nanking by the Japanese Imperial Army after the city was taken in 1937	3
59577436	Munich Conference	Meeting in 1938 in which France and Britain sought to appease German aggression and avert war	4
59577437	Axis Powers	comprised the countries that were opposed to the Allies during World War II.	5
59577438	Blitzkrieg	"Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland n 1939	6
59577439	Battle of Britain	the prolonged bombardment of British cities by the German Luftwaffe during World War II and the aerial combat that accompanied it	7
59577440	Operation of Barbarossa	code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that began on 22 June 1941	8
59577441	Kamikaze	a fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War II	9
59577442	The "Final Solution"	The Nazi cover-up name for the plan to annihilate all of the Jews	10
59577443	Comfort Women	women forcibly recruited by the japanese army to serve in military brothels	11
59577444	Truman Docturine	Nazi Germany's plan and execution of the systematic genocide of European Jews during World War II, resulting in the final, most deadly phase of the Holocaust	12
59577445	Marshall Plan	a United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952)	13
59577446	NATO	an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security	14
59577447	Warsaw Pact	An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO	15