AP World History Flashcards

9640108209	Adolf Hitler	German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945)	0
9640108210	totalitarian state	country where a single party controls the government and every aspect of the lives of the people	1
9640108211	Benito Mussolini	Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and created Fascism	2
9640108212	Squadristi	"Armed fascists" who helped Mussolini and the League of Combat gain power	3
9640108213	NAZI	National Socialist German Workers- Hitler's political party	4
9640108214	Storm Troopers	Hitler's private army	5
9640108215	Mein Kampf (My Struggle)	Hitler wrote this book in prison/ told of his intentions to eradicate the Jews	6
9640108216	Lebensraum	Hitler's expansionist theory based on a drive to acquire "living space" for the German people	7
9640108217	Heinrich Himmler	German Nazi who was chief of the SS and the Gestapo and who oversaw the genocide of six million Jews	8
9640108218	Kristallnacht	"Night of Broken Glass," when Nazis attacked Jews throughout Germany	9
9640108219	Appeasement	Accepting demands in order to avoid conflict	10
9640108220	Mukden Incident	Japanese blew up their own railroad in Manchuria; blamed it on China. Excuse to go to war with china	11
9640108221	Blitzkrieg	"Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland in 1939	12
9640108222	Dunkirk	site of British troops stranded in France, and their rescue by sea	13
9640108223	Vichy Government	Govt. of France after German occupation at the beginning of WWII.	14
9640108224	Luftwaffe	German Air Force	15
9640108225	Operation Barbarossa	Hitler's plan to invade the Soviet Union	16
9640108226	Pearl Harbor	Base in hawaii that was bombed by japan on December 7, 1941, which eagered America to enter the war.	17
9640108227	Unconditional Surrender	giving up to an enemy without any demands or requests	18
9640108228	General Erwin Rommel	German commander in North Africa	19
9640108229	El Alamein	Where the British pushed Germany west to stay away from the Suez Canal	20
9640108230	Battle at Stalingrad	Soviet victory; turning point of WWII in Eastern Europe	21
9640108231	D-Day (Battle of Normandy)	June 6 1944. Allied troops execute a surprise attack on the beaches of Normandy, France.	22
9640108232	Midway Battle	Pacific battle that was seen as the turning point in the Pacific campaign	23
9640108233	General Dwight D. Eisenhower	General who led Operation "Overlord" to victory in WWII and eventually became president in 1953.	24
9640108234	Battle of Kursk	German forces are soundly defeated by the Soviets, greatest tank battle of WWII	25
9640108235	VE Day	Victory in Europe Day, May 8, 1945, the day the Allies won WWII in Europe	26
9640108236	Hiroshima and Nagasaki	Truman ordered the dropping of the Atomic bomb to force Japan to surrender	27
9640108237	VJ Day	August 15, 1945 - the Victory in Japan Day when the Japanese surrendered	28
9640108238	Final Solution	Hitler's program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people	29
9640108239	Einsatzgruppen	Nazi strike forces that killed innocent Jews with their infamous "death squads"	30
9640108240	Kamikaze	Japanese suicide pilots	31
9640108241	Decolonization	The process by which former colonies gain their independence from the mother country	32
9640108242	Cold War	the power struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States after World War II	33
9640108243	Teheran Conference	Meeting in 1943; Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill; confirmed their defense to crush Hitler.	34
9640108244	Yalta Conference	1945 strategy meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin	35
9640108245	Potsdam Conference	The third meeting of the Big Three nations. The Soviet Union was represented by Joseph Stalin, Britain by Winston Churchill, and the United States by President Harry S. Truman.	36