Ch. 36 Flashcards

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Impartite Pact

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a ten- year military & economic pact that Japan signed in 1940 which aligned Japan with other recisionist nations

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Nanjing

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Capital of China. Rape of Nanjing- Japanese soldiers raped 7,000 women, murdered many unarmed soldiers, & burned 1/3 of the homes

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Munich Conference

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September 1938- consolidation of the appeasement policy. Revealed how most nations outside the revisionist sphere had decided to deal w territorial expansion by aggressive nations

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Neville Chamberlain

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Britain’s prime minister. Announced that the meeting had achieved “peace for our time”.

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Russian-German Treaty of Agression

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agreement by which the two nations agreed not to attack eachother & promised neutrality in the event that any went to war with a third party

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Blitzkrieg

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“Lightning war”. Germany stunned the world with this & sudden victory. (CHECK PAPER FOR DETAILS/ EVENTS)

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Luftwaffe

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Germany’s Air Force which led the Battle of Britain. Rained bombs on heavily populated metropolitan areas.

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Operation Barbarossa

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code name for the June invasion of the Soviet Union

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Pearl Harbor

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Japanese hoped to destroy American naval capacity by attacking here to clear the way for conquest of SE Asia

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Asia for Asians

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Slogan under which Japan pursued expansion on Asia. Implied that Japanese would lead again people’s to independence from European imperialists.

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Greater East Asian co-prosperity sphere

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Japan needed the region’s (Asia) resources so they sought to build this

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Normany invasion

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D-Day (June 6, 1944); British & US troops landed on the coast of Normandy, this made German resistance fade

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Magic

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secret weapon of the U.S. which enabled cryptographer monitoring Japanese radio frequencies to discover the plan of attack on Midway

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Kamikaze

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pilots who “volunteered” to fly planes with just enough fuel to reach an allied ship and dive bomb into it

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Wansee Conference

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15 leading nazi bureaucrats gathered to discuss and coordinate the final solution

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Auschwitz

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largest of the concentration camps

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comfort women

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Japanese army forcibly recruited woman age 14-20 to serve in miletary brothels called “comfort houses”

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Warsaw Pact

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countermeasure to NATO. A military alliance of 7 communist European nations which matched collective defensive policies of NATO

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German Democratic Republic

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(EAST GERMANY)- emerged out of the soviet zone of occupation in Germany

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Berlin Wall

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communists (soviets) reinforced fortification along the border between E. & W. Germany because of East Germans leaving

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Fidel Castro

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headed a revolutionary movement in Cuba which overthrew Fulgencjo Batista y Zakdivar

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Nikita Khrushchev

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soviet premier who embarked on a policy of de-Stalinization (the end of the rule of terror & partial liberation of soviet society)

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Prague spring

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liberal movement which Czechoslovakia communist leader supported and he promised citizens “socialism with human force”

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Breaches doctrine

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reserved the right to invade socialist country that was deemed to be threatened by internal/external elements “hostile to socialism”

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detente

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deduction in hostility, trying to cool the costly arms race and slow their (soviet and U.S.) competition in developing countries