AP Euro Review: World War II Flashcards
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| 384234106 | Maginot Line | Line of defense built by France to protect against German invasion. Stretched from Belgium to Switzerland. | 0 | |
| 384234107 | Engelbert Dollfuss | Christian Socialist who became Chancellor of Austria and was assassinated in 1934. | 1 | |
| 384234108 | Haile-Selassie | Emperor of Ethiopia who pleaded to the League to stop Italy's invasion. | 2 | |
| 384234109 | Neville Chamberlain | Extremely conservative British PM during late 1930s. | 3 | |
| 384234110 | Munich Conference | An agreement/conference that gave Germany the Sudetenland in exchange for not expanding into Europe any more. | 4 | |
| 384234112 | Charles De Gaulle | French general and statesman who became very popular during World War II as the leader of the Free French forces in exile | 5 | |
| 384234113 | Pierre Laval and Marshal Petain | Frenchmen who governed the southern third of France and collaborated with the Nazis. | 6 | |
| 384234114 | quislings | German collaborators | 7 | |
| 384234115 | Luftwaffe | the German airforce | 8 | |
| 384234116 | radar | Developed by Britain early in the war. | 9 | |
| 384234117 | 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. | 10 | |
| 384234118 | Tojo Hideki | Japanese army officer who initiated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and who assumed dictatorial control of Japan during World War II | 11 | |
| 384234119 | Erwin Rommel | German field marshal noted for brilliant generalship in North Africa during World War II. | 12 | |
| 384234120 | El Alamein | Town in Egypt, site of the victory by Britain's Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery over German forces led by General Erwin Rommel (the 'Desert Fox') in 1942-1943. | 13 | |
| 384234121 | Douglas MacArthur | United States general who served as chief of staff and commanded Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II | 14 | |
| 384234122 | Chester W. Nimitz | Commander of the U.S. naval forces in the Pacific and brilliant strategist of the "island hopping" campaign | 15 | |
| 384234123 | island hopping | WWII strategy of conquering only certain Pacific islands that were important to the Allied advance toward Japan | 16 | |
| 384234124 | Tito | Yugoslav statesman who led the resistance to German occupation during World War II and established a communist state after the war (1892-1980) | 17 | |
| 384234125 | Okinawa | Showed that the Japanese would "fight to the death",was the scene of the last great U.S. amphibious campaign in World War II. U.S. army and marine forces | 18 | |
| 384234126 | Iwo Jima | a bloody and prolonged operation on the island of Iwo Jima in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945) | 19 | |
| 384234127 | Four Freedoms | Employed by Franklin Roosevelt, these were freedom of speech, worship, from want, and from fear. | 20 | |
| 384234128 | Lend-Lease | allows America to sell, lend, or lease arms or other war supplies to any nation considered "vital to the defense of the U.S." | 21 | |
| 384234129 | Atlantic Charter | 1941-Pledge signed by US president FDR and British prime minister Winston Churchill not to acquire new territory as a result of WWII and to work for peace after the war | 22 | |
| 384234130 | Vichy France | Southern Pro-Nazi French; govern themselves as loyal to Nazis; traitors to the Free French in N. France | 23 | |
| 384234131 | Final Solution | the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler | 24 | |
| 384234132 | Einsatzgruppen | mobile death units | 25 | |
| 384234133 | iron curtain | division between East and West named by Winston Churchill | 26 |