A.P. European History-Unit XIX: The Second World War Flashcards

335177108	Maginot Line	French plan that is war does come, they would fight behind this line of fortifications on this line on the eastern frontier facing germany (Switzerland to Belgium)	0
335177109	Neville Chamberlain	Prime minister of England in 1937, architect of appeasement policy, yielded to the legitimate demands of the dictators, noncommittal	1
335177110	Saar Plebiscite	January 1935, under stipulations of Versailles Treaty, voted for union of the Third Reich	2
335177111	Remilitarization of the Rhine	going against the treaty of Versailles, german troops occupied the Rhineland, talk of French Action but non because England didn't feel the need to stop it	3
335177112	Haile Selassie	Ethiopian Emperor who called for more action in Geneva, in response to Ethiopia being defeated in 1936	4
335177113	Anschluss	after German forces moved into Austria in March 1938, Austria and Germany became a union	5
335177114	Spanish Popular Front	all groups to the left, from anarchists to republicans, joined together to get rid of the monarchists, won in elections of 1936 and launched reform programs	6
335177115	Francisco Franco	led an insurrection against republican government, won civil war in 1939 and established authoritative Fascist regime	7
335177116	Rome-Berlin Axis	Mussolini and Hitler came to an understanding, one day hoped they would be the diplomatic axis in which the world turned	8
335177117	Anti-Comintern Pact	Japan, Germany, Italy and agreement to oppose communism, basis for diplomatic allies	9
335177118	Sudeten Germans	Germans in Czechoslovakia fell under German control, who were trying to relieve grievances not promote national socialism	10
335177119	Nazi-Soviet Pact	August 23 1939, treaty of nonaggression and friendship, would divide Poland, Russia could have Baltic influence under stipulation they wouldn't join the war	11
335177120	Blitzkrieg	lightening warfare, rapid military advancement, best shown by the german attack on Poland	12
335177121	Russo-Finnish War	Finland refused to listen to Russian demands, so Soviets attacked and Finnish resisted with French and Great Britain support	13
335177122	Dunkirk	British and French troops were evacuated from the beaches in repines to Hitler's "trap"	14
335177123	Vichy France	the northern 2/3 of France was occupied by Nazi Germany, so the remaining part was run out of Vichy, Nazi collaboration government	15
335177124	Festung Europa	All civilians worked under close German supervision for the german war industry, garrisoned Europe with solders, fortress of Europe	16
335177125	Vidkun Quisling	Model sympathizer who organized Norwegian fascist part in 1933 and was premier from 1942 to 1945	17
335177126	Four Freedoms	United States promised to make world safe for freedom of speech, worship and freedom from fear and from want	18
335177127	Lend-Lease	US provides arms, raw materials and food to those in war against the axis	19
335177128	Ultra	British Royal Air Force fought off Germany with this operation that broke the code of German communications	20
335177129	El Alamein	final British stand against German Rummel and his troops, with their backs to the Suez, where finally able to hold the Germans	21
335177130	Capture of Singapore	Japan captured British naval base that was the Gibraltar of the east, showed military dominance with the sinking of The Prince of Wales	22
335177131	Albert Speer	organization genius who coordinated labor and resources in the next two years, tripled armaments production	23
335177132	Battle of the Atlantic	German submarines were in control of the Atlantic, blockading, gradually won be american and british forces as submarine threat was reduced to tolerable amounts in 1943	24
335177133	Siege of Leningrad	large Siege by german troops, Hitler trying to win Russia	25
335177134	Stalingrad	August 1942 huge german offensive on Stalingrad, but red army was able to push out germans, lead to huge westward push and USSR on the offensive	26
335177135	Admiral Darlan	Vichy France leader who assisted the allies in assuming control in North Africa, but was assassinated	27
335177136	Invasion of Sicily	July-August 1943, Allies conquered the island of Sicily, Mussolini fell and lead to battle on the mainland, Italy (part not occupied by Germany) is cobelligerant	28
335177137	plot of July 20, 1944	resistance movement attempted to assassinate Hitler by exploding a bomb at military headquarters in East Prussia, only injured	29
335177138	Final Solution	would fix the jewish problem, in which jews were killed in a systematic, modern, orderly way, annihilation of a race	30
335177139	Wannsee Meeting	high level Nazis decided the final solution, which Hitler had agitated for so many years	31
335177140	Battle of the Bulge	Hitler offense in Dec of 1944, Belgian sector of the Ardennes on american forces that cause heavy loses in the allied push forward	32
335177141	Dresden	city in Germany that was destroyed by Allied bombing	33
335177142	Katyn Forest Massacre	in 1940, Soviet Union had shot prisoners of war and officers in Poland because of their joining with germany in the partition of Poland	34
335177143	Leyte Golf	Oct 1944, Americans defeated Japanese in an impressive battle	35
335177144	Atlantic Charter	Roosevelt and Churchill, pledged sovereign rights and self government would be restored, would have access to trade, improve economy and security	36
335177145	Casablanca Conference	January 1943, resolved to accept nothing less than then unconditional surrender	37
335177146	United Nations	international organization that would act as a police, serve to the peace and security of the world, security council would have veto on importance decisions	38
335177147	Curzon line	russian-polish of Poland behind this line, and would be compensated for lost territory in the west	39
335177148	Potsdam Conference	July 1945, after german collapse, big three met again and made decisions of german defeat conditions	40
335177149	Oder-Neisse Boundaries	this river divided Germany and Poland, westward compensation for Russian expansion	41
335177150	Declaration of Liberated Europe	promised sovereign rights of democratic self determination, to precent Stalin from total control in east and central Europe	42