Chapter 17 World History Vocabulary – Flashcards
Unlock all answers in this set
Unlock answersquestion
Appeasement
answer
Policy of giving in to an aggressor's demands in order to keep the peace.
question
Pacifism
answer
Opposition to all war.
question
Neutrality Acts
answer
A group of laws enacted by the United States to avoid involvement in a European conflict.
question
Axis Powers
answer
Germany, Italy, and Japan.
question
Francisco Franco
answer
A conservative Spanish general supported by Fascists and Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War; later became dictator.
question
Anschluss
answer
Union of Austria and Germany.
question
Sudetenland
answer
A region of Czechoslovakia.
question
Nazi-Soviet Pact
answer
A nonaggression pact uniting Germany and the Soviet Union.
question
Blitzkrieg
answer
"Lightning war" using improved tanks and airpower.
question
Luftwaffe
answer
German air force.
question
Dunkirk
answer
Site of British troops stranded in France, and their rescue by sea.
question
Vichy
answer
Location in France of Germany's "puppet state."
question
General Erwin Rommel
answer
German general known as the "Desert Fox."
question
Concentration Camps
answer
Nazi detention and killing centers for civilians considered enemies of the state.
question
Holocaust
answer
The systematic genocide of about six million European Jews by the Nazis during World War II.
question
Lend-Lease Act
answer
Law allowing FDR to sell or lend war materials to those who were fighting for freedom.
question
Rosie the Riveter
answer
The character who symbolized the millions of women working in essential war industry jobs.
question
Aircraft Carrier
answer
A ship from which aircraft can take off and land.
question
Dwight Eisenhower
answer
A decorated World War II general who later became president of the United States.
question
Stalingrad
answer
Site of one of the costliest battles of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union.
question
D-Day
answer
June 6, 1944, the day of the Allies' invasion of France.
question
Yalta Conference
answer
The February 1945 meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin where they agreed on the Soviet Union's joining the Pacific war, and on postwar arrangements.
question
Sanctions
answer
Penalties.
question
Technology
answer
Scientific advances applied to practical purposes.
question
Available
answer
Ready for use; at hand.
question
Nullified
answer
Made invalid.
question
Incessant
answer
Uninterrupted, ceaseless.
question
Inevitable
answer
Unavoidable, inescapable.
