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| the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938 |
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| Between Hitler and Japan; offered security against Russia |
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| August 1941; called for peace without territorial expansion or secret agreements, and for free elections, and self determination for all liberated nations |
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| Resolved to accept nothing less than uncoditional surrender of Axis powers |
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| 1938; guilible British Prime Minister; declared that Britain and France would fight if Hitler attacked Poland |
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| 1874 to 1965; greatest wartime leader; rallied the British with his speeches, infectious confidence and bulldog determination; known for his "iron curtain" speech; led the British during WWI; agreed Hitler should be conquered; was thrown out by his own people |
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| June 6, 1944; Americans and British forces under General Dwight Eisenhower landed on the beaches of Normandy; this was history's greatest naval invasion |
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| Turning point for Germany in the war |
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| French leader of the radical socialists; accepted Hitler's terms for peace |
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| Spanish General; organized the revolt in Morocco which led to the Spanish Civil War. Leader of the Nationalists - right wing, supported by Hitler and Mussolini, won the Civil War after three years of fighting |
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| Room to move. Phrase used by Hitler to justify invasion of other countries |
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| In 1941, the US lent money and resources to the European states to help reconstruction |
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| Line of defense built by France to protect against German invasion. Stretched from Belgium to Switzerland |
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| 1938; Chamberlain, France and other countries (not the USSR); they agreed that Sudentenland should be ceded to Germany; Chamberlain secured peace with Germany |
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| Anabaptists laid great stress on this; they would not run for office or serve in the armed forces; not being involved in many wars |
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| Brought forward many differences over east Europe; postwar conference in July of 1945; Stalin would not allow any type of freely elected government in east Euorpean countries; Roosevelt had died and was succeeded by Henry Truman, who demanded free elections |
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| 1936; close cooperation between Italy and Germany, and soon Japan joined; resulted from Hitler; who had supported Ethiopia and Italy, he overcame Mussolini's lingering about the Nazis |
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| "Desert Fox" May 1942; German and Italian armies were led by him and attacked British occupied Egypt and the Suez Canal for the second time; were defeated at the Battle of El Alamein; was moved to France to oversee the defenses before D-Day; tried to assassinate Hitler |
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| Russo-German Nonaggresion Pact |
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| Hitler and Stalin promise to remain neutral if either country were to become involved in the war; August 1939. Was supposed to last 10 years, but Hitler invaded Russia in 1941 |
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| Communist statesman; leader of Bolshevik Party; become ruler of USSR after Lenin; assumed full military and political leadership |
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| Hitler wanted German speaking people in West Czechl this would be given to Germany |
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| Meeting in 1943; Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill; cofirmed their defense to crush Hitler |
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| On the Black Sea; the Big Three met in Febuary 1945 in southern Russia; it was agreed that Germany would be divided into zones of occupation and would pay heavy reparations to the Soviet Union in the form of agricultual and industrial goods; when the Big Three met in 1945 at Yalta in southern Russia they agreed that east European governments were to be freely elected but pro-Soviet |
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| Chancellor of Germany in 1949; the former mayor of Cologne and a long-time anti-Nazi, who began his long highly successful democratic rule; West Germany had a majority of Christian Democrats; helped regain respect for Germany |
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