AP World History- WWII Flashcards

4217858632	Allies	US, Great Britain, USSR, Canada, Free French	0
4217858633	Axis	Germany, Japan, Italy, Ireland	1
4217858634	Appeasment	To give a group, country, or person what they want in order to avoid war(the League was constantly appeasing Hitler).	2
4217858635	Demilitarized Zone	An area in which it is forbidden to station military forces or maintain military installations.	3
4217858636	Blitzkrieg	A German term for "lightning war," it is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. Its successful execution results in short military campaigns, which preserves human lives and limits the expenditure of artillery.	4
4217858637	Luftwaffe	Tested out in Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, it's the official name for the Nazi air force founded in 1935.	5
4217858638	Vichy France	The Franco-German Armistice of June 22, 1940, divided France into two zones: one to be under German military occupation and one to be left to the French in full sovereignty, at least nominally.	6
4217858639	Nonaggression Pact	The USSR and Germany made a pact to not to fight if one goes to war and to split Poland, giving Germany the leeway to invade Poland.	7
4217858640	Holocaust	Nazi genocide aimed towards Jewish people where millions were killed.	8
4217858641	Nazi	National Socialist Party, often described as racist and typically their gaining of power is due to violence.	9
4217858642	Totalitarian	A single party with a dictator, censorship, the state controls the economy, the government has monopolies and an unquestioning obedience to one ruler.	10
4217858643	Fascist	A dictator as a leader, and limited capitalism are both a part of fascism; the basis of fascism is that the nation is held above the individual.	11
4217858644	Genocide	The mass killing of a group of people.	12
4217858645	Internment	The evacuation order commenced the round-up of 120,000 Americans of Japanese heritage to one of 10 internment camps—officially called "relocation centers"—in California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, and Arkansas.	13
4217858646	Kamikaze	A Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target.	14
4217858647	"Comfort Women"	Women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army before and during World War II, provided to Japan's troops.	15
4217858648	Hitler	Hitler was a racist, charismatic dictator from the Nazi party who was responsible for the holocaust.	16
4217858649	Mussolini	Mussolini was a fascist dictator in Italy. He was also charismatic, and used violence to gain support. He was also focused on expanding and did not respect the League of Nations.	17
4217858650	Stalin	He was the communist USSR leader during WWII. He made a pact with Germany to split Poland; however, Germany later broke the pact.	18
4217858651	Roosevelt	He was an American President both during the Depression and WWII. During the Depression, he sponsored bills referred to as the New Deal that helped in leading the US out of the Great Depression.	19
4217858652	Chamberlain	A part of the League of Nations, he was the British Prime Minister who continuously decided to appease Hitler, for fear of another war until WWII.	20
4217858653	Churchill	He became the Prime Minister during WWII and is regarded as one of the best wartime leaders.	21
4217858654	Tojo	He was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army, the leader of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during much of World War II.	22
4217858655	Hirohito	He was the 124th Emperor of Japan during WWII.	23
4217858656	Truman	He was a US President during WWII after Roosevelt died, and he later created the Truman Doctrine.	24
4217858657	The Manhattan Project	A project begun by the US to create the worlds first atomic bomb.	25
4217858658	Francisco Franco	He began a Fascist party in Spain; the Spanish Civil War was his rise to power.	26
4217858659	Weimar Republic	The democracy in Germany considered weak, and soon replaced by a dictator and the fascist government system.	27
4217858660	Manchuria	Japan seized Manchuria, and in doing so showed the weakness of the League of Nations.	28
4217858661	Rhineland	A demilitarized zone, Germany had political control of this area, but they were not allowed to put any troops into it. In March 1936, Hitler took what for him was a huge gamble - he ordered that his troops should openly re-enter the Rhineland thus breaking the terms of Versailles once again. He did order his generals that the military should retreat out of the Rhineland if the French showed the slightest hint of making a military stand against him. This did not occur. Over 32,000 soldiers and armed policemen crossed into the Rhineland	29
4217858662	Sudetenland	The German name to refer to those northern, southwest, and western areas of Czechoslovakia which were inhabited primarily by German speakers.	30
4217858663	Lebensraum	Additional territory considered by a nation, especially Nazi Germany, to be necessary for national survival or for the expansion of trade.	31
4217858664	Pearl Habor	A surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base.	32
4217858665	Dresden	During the final months of World War II, Allied forces bombed the historic city, located in eastern Germany. The bombing was controversial because it was neither important to German wartime production nor a major industrial center, and before the massive air raid of February 1945 it had not suffered a major Allied attack. By February 15, the city was a smoldering ruin and an unknown number of civilians—estimated at somewhere between 35,000 and 135,000-were dead.	33
4217858666	Stalingrad	A major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia.	34
4217858667	Normandy	Nazi Germany had taken this part of France, which was later liberated on D-Day	35
4217858668	Nagasaki	On August 9, 1945(three days after Hiroshima), a second B-29 dropped another atomic bomb, killing an estimated 40,000 people.	36
4217858669	Hiroshima	On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure.	37
4217858670	The Battle of Iwo Jima	A major battle in which the United States Armed Forces landed and eventually captured the island from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.	38
4217858671	Poland	Germany made a deal with the USSR to split the country and later invaded; starting WWII.	39
4217858672	Austria	Austria and Germany were joined March 12, 1938 in what was called an Anschluss.	40
4217858673	Czechoslovakia	On March 15, 1939 Germany got the country due to the Munich Pact, which was created to keep the peace.	41
4217858674	D-Day	June 6, 1944; Allied troops invaded and liberated Normandy and began pushing back against German forces, later liberating Paris(in August).	42
4217858675	Midway	The United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. Thanks in part to major advances in code breaking, the United States was able to preempt and counter Japan's planned ambush of its few remaining aircraft carriers, inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese Navy.	43
4217858676	Nanjing(the Nanjing Massacre, the Rape of Nanjing)	An episode during WWII of mass murder and mass rape by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China. The massacre occurred over six weeks starting December 13, 1937, the day that the Japanese captured Nanjing. During this period, soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army murdered an estimated 40,000 to over 300,000 Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants, and perpetrated widespread rape and looting.	44
4217858677	Island Hopping	A military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World War II.	45
4217858678	Nuremberg Trials	The purpose was to demonstrate how crimes against humanity were punished, through a series of trials for war crimes committed by Nazi leaders.	46
4217858679	Oppenheimer	He is often referred to as the 'Father of the Atomic Bomb' and played a large part in the Manhattan Project.	47