World History: Chapter 29 Vocabulary – Flashcards
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Appeasement
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Policy of giving in to an aggressor's demands in order to keep the peace
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Pacifism
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Opposition to all war
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Neutrality Acts
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A series of acts passed by the U.S. from becoming involved in WWII
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Axis Powers
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Group of countries led by Germany, Italy, and Japan that fought the Allies in World War II
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Francisco Franco
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A conservative general who led a revolt
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Anschluss
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Union of Austria and Germany
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Sudetnland
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A region of western Czechoslovakia
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Nazi-Soviet Pact
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Agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939 in which the two nations promised not to fight each other and to divide up land in Eastern Europe
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Blitzkrieg
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Lightning war
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Luftwaffe
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German air force
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Dunkirk
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Port in France from which 300,000 Allied troops were evacuated when their retreat by land was cut off by the German advance in 1940
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Vichy
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City in central France where a puppet state governed unoccupied France and the French colonies
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General Erwin Rommel
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Commander who was sent by Hitler to North Africa
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Concentration Camp
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Detention center for civilians considered enemies of the state
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Holocaust
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The systematic genocide of about six million European Jews by the Nazis during World War II
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Lend-Lease Act
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Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1941 that allowed the president (FDR) to sell or lend war supplies to any country whose defense was considered vital to the United States
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"Rosie the Riveter"
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Popular name for women who worked in war industries during WWII
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Aircraft Carriers
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Ships that accommodate the taking off and landing of airplanes, and transport aircraft
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Dwight Eisenhower
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American general who took command of a joint British and American force in Morocco and Algeria
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Stalingrad
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Now Volgograd, a city in SW Russia that was the site of a fierce battle during WWII
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D-Day
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Code name for June 6, 1944, the day that Allied forces invaded France during WWII
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Yalta Conference
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Meeting between Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin in February 1945 where the three leaders made agreements regarding the end of World War II
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V-E Day
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Victory in Europe Day, May 8, 1945, the day the Allies won WWII in Europe
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Bataan Death March
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During World War II, the forced march of Filipino and American prisoners of war under brutal conditions by the Japanese military
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"Island Hopping"
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During World War II, Allied strategy of recapturing some Japanese-held islands while bypassing others
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Douglas MacArthur
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General who led American forces north towards Japan.
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Kamikaze
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Japanese pilot who undertook a suicide mission
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Manhattan Project
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Code name for the project to build the first atomic bomb during WWII
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Hiroshima
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City in Japan where the first atomic bomb was dropped in August 1945
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Nagasaki
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A coastal city in southern Japan on the island of Kyushu; city in Japan where the second atomic bomb was dropped in August, 1945
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Nuremberg
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Germany city where Hitler staged Nazi rallies in the 1930s, and where Nazi war crimes trials were held after WWII
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United Nations (UN)
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International organization established after World War II with the goal of maintaining peace and cooperation in the international community
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Cold War
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State of tension and hostility between nations aligned with the United State on one side and the Soviet Union on the other that rarely led to direct armed conflict
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Truman Doctrine
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United States policy, established in 1947, of trying to contain the spread of communism
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Marshall Plan
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Massive aid package offered by the U.S. to Europe to help countries rebuild after WWII
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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A military alliance between several North Atlantic states to safeguard them from the presumed threat of the Soviet Union's communist bloc; countries from other regions later joined the alliance
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Warsaw Pact
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Mutual-defense alliance between the Soviet Union and seven satellites in Eastern Europe set up in 1955
