AP World History Chapter 31 WWII Flashcards
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| 349333566 | Nazi-Soviet Pact | secret agreement between the Soviet Union and Germany. They agree not to attack each other. | 0 | |
| 349333568 | blitzkreig | lightening warfare | 1 | |
| 349333569 | luftwaffe | German airforce | 2 | |
| 349333570 | panzer | German tanks | 3 | |
| 349333573 | Dunkirk | allied troops evacuated from this French town | 4 | |
| 349333575 | Blitz | night time bombings of London and other cities | 5 | |
| 349333576 | Operation Barbarossa | Germany broke the non-aggression pact and attacks the Soviet Union. The Soviets used scorched earth policy and get supplies from Iran. | 6 | |
| 349333580 | Atlantic Charter | meeting between Churchill and Roosevelt where they discussed self-determination | 7 | |
| 349333581 | Yamamoto | Japanese leader of the Pacific fleet | 8 | |
| 349333582 | The day Pearl Harbor was bombed | December 7th, 1941 | 9 | |
| 349333583 | The Final Solution | Hitler's attempt to rig Europe from any undesirables led by Himmler | 10 | |
| 349333585 | ghettos | area is the city where a minority lives | 11 | |
| 349333587 | Joseph Mengele | He was a German Doctor, Horrible experiments on prisioners at concentration camps; Dr. of Death | 12 | |
| 349333593 | General Eisenhower | Commander-in-chief of the Allied troops in Europe | 13 | |
| 349333594 | D-Day | June 6th, 1944 (Operation Overlord) 155,000 allied troops land on Normandy beach and France becomes liberated | 14 | |
| 349333596 | Battle of Stalingrad | Unsuccessful German attack on the city of Stalingrad during World War II from 1942 to 1943, that was the furthest extent of German advance into the Soviet Union. | 15 | |
| 349333598 | General Nimitz and General MacArthur | led the Allied troops in Southeast Asia | 16 | |
| 349333599 | Kamikazi | Japanese suicide pilots | 17 | |
| 350147640 | Munich Pact | agreement between France, Germany and England which allowed Hitler to unite "the German speaking people" | 18 | |
| 351123208 | Hitler | German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945), Nazi leader and founder; had over 6 million Jews assassinated during the Holocaust | 19 | |
| 351123209 | Mussolini | Italian fascist dictator (1883-1945) | 20 | |
| 351123210 | Chamberlain | British Prime Minister who made the Munich Agreement with Hitler | 21 | |
| 351123211 | Churchill | British Prime Minister who opposed the policy of appeasement and led Great Britain through World War II | 22 | |
| 351123212 | Vichy France | area in southern france that was a puppet government; petain was made president; germany was really controlling | 23 | |
| 351123213 | Holocaust | Nazis' program during World War II to kill people they considered undesirable. Some 6 million Jews perished during the Holocaust, along with millions of Poles, Gypsies, Communists, Socialists, and others. | 24 | |
| 351123214 | Genocide | systematic killing of a racial or cultural group | 25 | |
| 351123215 | Patton | American general who was involved in the Normandy invasion and the Battle of the Bulge; known for his great ability in tank warfare | 26 | |
| 351123216 | Himmler | German Nazi who was chief of the SS and the Gestapo and who oversaw the genocide of six million Jews (1900-1945) | 27 | |
| 351123217 | Tojo | Japanese army officer who initiated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and who assumed dictatorial control of Japan during World War II | 28 | |
| 351123218 | Mobilization | the process of assembling troops and supplies and making them ready for war | 29 |