AP World History Chapter 31 Flashcards
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| 9602937389 | National Socialist party | Also known as the Nazi party led by Adolf Hitler in Germany | 0 | |
| 9602937390 | Churchill, Winston (1874-1965) | British prime minister during World War II responsible for British resistance to German air assault | 1 | |
| 9602937392 | Vichy | French collaborationist government in France | 2 | |
| 9602937391 | blitzkrieg | German term for lightning warfare | 3 | |
| 9602937393 | Battle of Britain | The 1940 Nazi air offensive including saturation bombing of London and other British cities | 4 | |
| 9602937394 | Holocaust | Hitler's genocide of European Jews | 5 | |
| 9602937395 | Battle of the Bulge | Hitler's last-ditch effort to repel the invading Allied armies in the winter | 6 | |
| 9602937396 | Pearl Harbor | American naval base in Hawaii attack by Japanese on this facility in December | 7 | |
| 9602937397 | Battle of the Coral Sea | United States and Japanese forces fought to a standoff | 8 | |
| 9602937398 | Midway Island | decisive U.S. victory over powerful Japanese carrier force | 9 | |
| 9602937399 | United Nations (UN) | International organization formed in the aftermath of World War II | 10 | |
| 9602937400 | Tehran Conference | agreed to the opening of a new front in France (leaders of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union) | 11 | |
| 9602937401 | Yalta Conference | agreed to Soviet entry into the Pacific war in return for possessions in Manchuria, organization of the United Nations (leaders of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union) | 12 | |
| 9602937402 | Potsdam Conference | Allies agreed upon Soviet domination in eastern Europe (leaders of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union) | 13 | |
| 9602937403 | total war | Warfare that vast resources and emotional commitments support military effort because of industrialization | 14 | |
| 9602937404 | Atlantic Charter of 1941 | agreement between the United States and Britain right of all people to choose the form of government under which the live | 15 | |
| 9602937405 | Quit India movement | Mass civil disobedience campaign - to end British control of India | 16 | |
| 9602937406 | Muslim League | Founded in 1906 to better support demands of Muslim in Hindu-dominated India | 17 | |
| 9602937407 | Jinnah, Muhammad Ali (1876-1948) | Muslim nationalist leader in India became leader of Muslim League first president of Pakistan | 18 | |
| 9602937408 | Convention People's Party (CPP) | Political party opposed to British control of colonial legislature in Gold Coast | 19 | |
| 9602937409 | Kentatta, Jono (1946-1978) | Leader of the nonviolent nationalist party in Kenya - organized the Kenya Africa Union(KAU) | 20 | |
| 9602937410 | Kenya African Union(KAU) | nationalist party in Kenya -adopted nonviolent approach to ending British control | 21 | |
| 9602937411 | Land and Freedom Army | Radical organization for independence in Kenya - failure of nonviolent means - initiated campaign of terror | 22 | |
| 9602937412 | National Liberation Front(FLN) | Radical nationalist movement in Algeria - launched sustained guerilla war against France - success of attacks led to independence of Algeria | 23 | |
| 9602937413 | Secret Army Organization (OAS) | Organization of French settlers in Algeria - led guerrilla war following independence | 24 | |
| 9602937414 | Afrikaner National Party | all-white South African legislature after 1948 advocated complete independence from Britain - apartheid | 25 | |
| 9602937415 | apartheid | Policy of strict racial segregation imposed in South Africa - continued dominance of whites | 26 | |
| 9602937416 | Haganah | Zionist military force engaged in violent resistance to British presence in Palestine | 27 |