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| National Socialist (Nazi) Party |
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| fascist party of Adolf Hitler in Germany |
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| fast-moving "lightning war" used by Germany to invade its neighbors in WWII |
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| inspirational leader of Britain in WWII |
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| failed German attempt to bomb Britain into submission in WWII; British grit and technology outlasted Hitler |
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| name given to the genocide of as many as 12 million people by Nazi regime; 6 million of these were Jews; was notable for especially brutal, systematic, and premeditated nature |
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| last German offensive on the Western Front in WWII; failure hastened German defeat |
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| American outpost in Hawaii that wasw surprise-attacked by the Japanese; triggered the official U.S. involvement in WWII |
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| Battle of the Coral Sea; Midway Island |
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| turning points of the Pacific theater in WWII; Japanese advances halted after these battles |
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| successor to the League of Nations, this U.S.-backed international organization had more success in all ways than its predecessor |
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| Allied war conference where later Cold War tensions first appeared |
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| most significant of the Allied war conferences; divided post-Nazi Europe and set the stage for Soviet-U.S. tensions for the next 45 years |
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| final Allied war conference in which the Soviet Union pledged to enter the war against Japan |
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| concept in warfare in which all the industrial and civilian might of a nation is linked to strategy and tactics on the battlefield |
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| alliance between the U.S. and Britain in 1941 that pledged mutual defense and the "right of all people to choose the form of government under which they live." |
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| mass civil disobedience campaigns in India against British rule in 1942 |
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| supported the partitioning of India into secular and Muslim states; the result of this political group's goal was the creation of Pakistan |
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| leader of the Muslim League and first president of Pakistan |
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| Convention Peoples Party (CPP) |
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| founded by Nkrumah in Ghana to support independence from Britain; organized mass rallies, strikes, and boycotts |
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| Jomo Kenyatta; Kenya African Union |
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| leader of independence movement in Kenya; supported nonviolent protest |
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| more radical independence group in Kenya that conducted terrorism and guerilla warfare against the colonizers |
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| reactionary settler military group that directed its aim at Arabs and Berbers in Algeria |
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| majority party in the all-white South African legislature, it won complete independence from Britain and maintained minority domination over the black majority |
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| rigid system of racial segregation in South Africa; established after 1948 and lasting until majority rule began there in the 1990s |
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| Zionist military force that spearheaded Jewish resistance to the British presence in Palestine |
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| French collaborationist government established in 1940 in southern France following defeat of French armies by the Germans |
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| Kenya African Union (KAU) |
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| leading nationalist party in Kenya; adopted nonviolent approach to ending British control in the 1950s |
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| National Liberation Front (FLN) |
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| radical nationalist movement in Algeria; launched sustained guerilla war against France in the 1950s; success led to independence of Algeria in 1958 |
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