Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| traders to their own country |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| replaced Neville Chamberlain as Prime minister of England |
|
|
Term
| The Evacuation at Dunkerque |
|
Definition
| Britain troops get pushed to English channel and eaither need to evacuate and surrender, or fight. they leave and hitler lets them go. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Letting britain go at the evacuation of dunkerque |
|
|
Term
| How long does it take france to surrender WW2? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| After Germany took over France, how was it divided? |
|
Definition
| North was Occupied France and South was Vichy France |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Germany doing massive air raid attackts on Brittan almost daily for a year. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Royal Air Force that helped save Britain and used radar. |
|
|
Term
| Neutrality Acts of 1935 & 1937 |
|
Definition
| Said U.S. wouldnt loan money to warring nations, our ships wont go into war zones, U.S.citizens wont ride ships of warring nations, and we wont give up equiptment to warring nations. and that we will stay neutral in future wars. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Allowed american businesses to sell war materials on a cash and carry basis. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| authorized President to supply war materials to Britain on Credit |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| President Roosevelt and Churchill meet to outline what we wanted to get out of WW2 |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Germany attacks Egypt for the first time, they want to get to the Middle East to get to the oil. British held Germanys advances |
|
|
Term
| Massive Attack on Soviet Union |
|
Definition
| Germans go against his and Stalins non agression pact and attack soviet union |
|
|
Term
| The scorched Earth Policy |
|
Definition
| Soviet Union did this for the second time |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| to take over and extend their control in east Asia |
|
|
Term
| Vietnam(French Indochina) |
|
Definition
| put under protective custody by china |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| U.S. major naval base, bombed by Japan. This was a suprise attack and killed about 23,000 people and 5 of our 8 battleships were sunk. |
|
|
Term
| Declaration of war on Japan |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Wanted to make the European continent into one single political and economic system and run it from Berlin |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Hitlers program to eliminate the jewish race |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A systematic destruction of the jews |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The head of the Schutzstaffel(SS) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the eliete core of officers placed in charge of holocaust |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| "The night of glass" When the gestapo went through the jewish ghettos and busted it up. Started to take jews away to concsentration camps |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Finalized plans for the holocaust and started building death camps in Poland. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| 2 infamous consentration camps |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| German industrialist, had a contract with Germany to make war materials. When he found out about what the Nazis were doing he helped the Jews out and acted like he needed workers but instead freed Jews (: |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Germans Surrendering to Soviets in 1943 |
|
|
Term
| General Dwight D. Eisenhower |
|
Definition
| Commander of U.S. forces and eventually becomes president |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Italian Premier after Mussolinis hanging. and his first thing he did was out law the Facsist party. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Italy against U.S. and Britian. The italians surrender then join the Allies in September and then they declare war on Germany. |
|
|
Term
| General Douglas MacArthur |
|
Definition
| Was there with the troops during the attack of the Philippines from Japan. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| When japanese forced over 78,000 prisoners of war to march the philippines under extreme conditions. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| U.s. and Austrailian forces defeated the japanese fleet heading to austrailia |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Japan sent most of their fleet to midway island and U.S. meets them and crushesss them. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Skipping around all the islands out of order so that japan wouldnt know what they would do next |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the allies would accept nothing less than this. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Operation Overlord, June 1944, the invasion of France from allies in Normandy. It was Massive and U.S. had over a million tropps in france within 1 month. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Germanys last offensive move. from December 1944 to January 1945. Allies get a victory. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| nicknamed "blood and Guts" and was in charge of U.S. troops at the battle of the Bulge |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Roosevelt, Churchill, & Stalin meet and did 4 things.
1. Formed the United NAtions to keep peace
2. Decided Germany would be spilt into 4 parts and they would each occupy a section.
3. Free elections would be held in all the liberated countries.
4. Soviets said they would enter the war against Japan. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Roosevelt, Churchill, & Stalin meet and did 4 things.
1. Formed the United NAtions to keep peace
2. Decided Germany would be spilt into 4 parts and they would each occupy a section.
3. Free elections would be held in all the liberated countries.
4. Soviets said they would enter the war against Japan. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Victory in Europe. Allies take the unconditional surrender from the remanining Axis powers. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| U.S. defeats Japanses and takes back control of Philippines. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Massive marine invasion and the last japanese possesion to fall. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the first japannese island that the allies took. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Stalin, President Harry Truman, and Clement Atlee meet to discuss:
1. the more detailed occupation of Germany and decided to divide Berlin also
2. Poland boarder issues
3. what to do with captured Nazi officials
4. Demand on unconditional surrender from Japan. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the code name for the atomic bomb being made in the U.S. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| was in charge of the Manhattan Project |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Means "divine Winds" they were suicide bombers for Japan |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| where first atomic bomb was dropped in Japan killing 80,000 people instantly |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Second bomb was dropped here with over 40,000 people killed |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Victory in Japan. September 2, 1945 ending WWII ! :D |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| french term for the scrubby undergrowth common in the areas where resistance fighters hid |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a hero of WWI and formed a government and assumed dictorial powers. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| under his leadership some French who wanted to continue to fight Germany formed the Free French Government |
|
|
