Ch 30 Flashcards
(25 cards)
Italy attached _________ in 1935, to divert Italian attention from fascist corruption as well as to restore roman imperial glory.
Ethiopia
When hitter remilitarized the ______ in 1936, he broke the Versailles treaty and the Locarno agreement.
Rhineland
Which country supported the republican forces with military aid in the Spanish civil war?
Soviet Union
The _______ referred to the Union of Germany and Austria.
Anschluss
The secret provision of the nazi-soviet ______________ was the partitioning of Poland between Russia and Germany.
Nonaggressive pact
The _____ was a period of little activity on the western front before the invasion of France.
Sitzkrieg
___________ was a famous episode in 1940 in which allied troops were evacuated from France, mostly by British civilians in small boats.
Dunkirk
The ______ _______ refers to the French defensive fortifications along the German border.
Maginot line
The capital of the French government that collaborated with the Germans after France’s defeat was _________.
Vinchy france
___________ organized the French national committee of liberation.
Charles de gaulle
The Battle of Britain resulted in the German _________ of invasion plans.
Abandonment
The German general who was successful against the British in North Africa was ______________.
Erwin Rommel
At the time of France’s defeat in 1940, Britain was led by __________.
Winston Churchill
As compared to wwI, Germany in wwII conquered ______ territory.
More
The ________ refers to the murder of six million Jews by the nazis.
Holocaust
Which two countries lost the highest percentage of their Jewish population?
Poland and Latvia
The turning point of the German campaign against Russia was the _____________.
Battle of Stalingrad
The U.S. Entered WWII because of the bombing of ________.
Pearl Harbor
The battle that turned the tide against Japan in the pacific was ___________.
Midway
The primary goal of the allied armies in North Africa was to establish a staging ground for the invasion of _______.
Italy
The ____________ was a broad set of principles in the spirit of wilsons fourteen points.
Atlantic charter
At the conference at Potsdam in 1945, the participants were _________, ________ and _____________.
Joseph Stalin, Harry Truman and clement Attlee
Which two countries gained the most territory in the settlement that followed WW2 ?
Russia and Poland
At the _________ meeting, the allied leaders agreed that the western allies would attack Germany from the west in the summer of 1944.
Casablanca
