history World War2 Flashcards

1513276249	Rome-Berlin Axis	an alliance between Hitler and Mussolini	1
1513276250	appeasement	policy used by Chamberlain when he accepted Hitlers demands for territory	2
1513276251	Neville Chamberlain	British prime minister who believed he could avoid war if he gave into Hitler's demands	3
1513276252	Franklin Roosevelt	president during World War1	4
1513276253	blitzkrieg	German war strategy aimed at taking the enemy by surpise	5
1513276254	sitzkrieg	dubbed the "phony war" when things were quiet on the western front	6
1513276255	luftwaffe	German air force	7
1513276256	dunkirk	french seaport where a heroic rescue of Allied armies took place	8
1513276257	maginot line	200 mile of fortifications built along France's border with germany	9
1513276258	battle of britain	German planes outnumbered the British planes but the Germans never did gain air supremacy	10
1513276259	blitz	night bombings of London for 57 consecutive nights	11
1513276260	Atlantic Charter	joint declaration by Roosevelt and Churchill which called for the "final destruction of Nazi tyranny"	12
1513276261	Charles de Gaulle	french tank commander who organized a French resistance movement after the fall of France to Germany	13
1513276262	Winston Chruchill	British prime minister who warned of the Nazi danger	14
1513276263	Erwin Rommel	German tank commander who had many victories in Africa	15
1513276264	operation Barbarossa	code name for the massive attack on the Soviet Union by Germany	16
1513276265	scorched earth policy	policy used by Stalin to destroy everything that could be used by the German invaders	17
1513276266	Holocaust	mass destruction of 6 million Jewish people	18
1513276267	Final Solution	Nazi code word for the destruction of all jews	19
1513276268	ghetto	designated area of the city with poor living conditions	20
1513276269	German SS	special units of Nazi who captured and killed jews	21
1513276270	genocide	deliberate planned killing of an entire group of people based on race, politics, or culture	22
1513276271	Tripartite pact	agreement with Japan, Germany,Italy	23
1513276272	Pearl Harbor	first Japanese attack on the U.S.	24
1513276273	battle of Midway	ended Japanese naval superiority in the Paciftic	25
1513276274	guadalcanal	first in the series of island battles the Americans fought as they made their way north of japan	26
1513276275	Kamikaze	Japanese suicide bombers	27
1513276276	operation Overload	plan to land Allied troops in France	28
1513276277	D-Day	refers to the Allied landing in France on June 6,1944	29
1513276278	Bernard Montgomery	British general who fought in Africa against Germany	30
1513276279	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Allied Commander who assembled troops for Operation Overload	31
1513276280	Douglas MacArthur	American general who fought in the Pacific against Japan	32
1513276281	Axis powers	included Germany, Italy, Japan	33
1513276282	Soviet Union	Hitler attacks after failing to defeat Great Britain	34
1513276283	Poland and Soviet Union	largest number of Jews lived in	35
1513276284	U.S. was officially at war the day after	Japan attacked Pearl Harbor	36