Chapter 22 Flashcards
Communist dictator of the Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin
“Lightning war”
Blitzkrieg
The famous German “desert fox”
Erwin Rommel
June 6, 1944
D-day
Dictator of Fascist Italy
Benito Mussolini
Commander of all American Forces in the Far East
Douglas MacArthur
Dictator of Nazi Germany
Adolph Hitler
Attempt to satisfy a dictator by giving in to his demands
Appeasement
An agreement between Russia and Germany allowing Russia to take some of the Baltic property in exchange for Germany being allows to take part of Poland
Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
Military head of Japan
Hideki Togo
The battle that was the bloodiest single campaign in the Pacific
Okinawa
Nationalistic, totalitarian mass movement
Fascism
Policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other countries
Isolation
British prime minister
Winston Churchill
Hitler’s book that proposed to eliminate all Jews, end democracy in Germany, and create a new German order.
Mein Kampf
Placement of people in detention camps
Internment
British champion of appeasement
Neville Chamberlin
Germany army
Wehrmacht
Republican candidate for president in 1940
Wendell Wilkie
Act empowered the president to supply any Allied nation on almost any terms he wished
Lend-lease act
Agreement between Churchill and Roosevelt listed their “common principles “ and goals on the war effort?
Atlantic Charter
Winter battle did the Nazis counterattack against the Allied invasion of Europe, almost stopping the advance into Germany
Battle of the Bulge
Allied strategy for the defeat of Japan
Island Hopping
Japanese suicide pilot
Kamikazes