Chapter 30 Flashcards
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| 22712690 | Winston Chruchhill | British prime minister during World War II; responsible for British resistance to German air assaults | 0 | |
| 22712691 | Land Freedom Army | Radical organization for independence in Kenya; frustrated by failure of nonviolent means, initiated campaign of terror in 1952; referred to by British as the Mau Mau | 1 | |
| 22712692 | Muslim League | Founded in 1906 to better support demands of Muslims for separate electorated and legislative seats in Hindu-dominated India; represented division withink Indian nationalist movement | 2 | |
| 22712693 | Pearl Harbor | American naval base in Hawaii; attacked by Japanese on December 1941 crippled American fleet in the Pacific and caused the entry of the US into World War II | 3 | |
| 22712694 | Battle of the Bulge | Hitlers last-ditch effort to repel invading Allied armies in the winter 1944-1945 | 4 | |
| 22712695 | Battle of the Coral Sea | World War II Pacific battle; United States and Japanese forces fought to a standoff | 5 | |
| 22712696 | Anschluss | Hitlers union of Germany with the German- speaking population of Austria; took place in 1938, despite complaints of other European nations | 6 | |
| 22712697 | Holocaust | Term for Hitlers attempted genocide of European Jews during World II; resulted in deaths of 6 million Jews | 7 | |
| 22712698 | Haganah | Zionist military froces engaged in violent resistance to British presence in Palestine in the 1940's | 8 | |
| 22712699 | Quit India Movement | Mass civil disobedience campaign that began in the summer of 1942 to end British control of India | 9 | |
| 22712700 | Tehran Conference | Meeting among leaders of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union in 1943; agreed to the opening of a new front in France | 10 | |
| 22712701 | Convention Peoples Party | Political party established by Kwame Nkrumah in opposition to British control of colonial legislature in Gold Coast | 11 | |
| 22712702 | Apartheid | Policy of strict racial segregation imposed in South Africa to permit the continued dominance of whites politically and economically | 12 | |
| 22712703 | Kenya African Union | Leading nationalist party in Kenya; adopted nonviolent approach to ending British control in the 1950's | 13 | |
| 22712704 | Midway Island | World War II Pacific battle; decisive US victory over powerful Japanese carrier force | 14 |