Final Flashcards
(52 cards)
Supreme Allied Commander in Europe
Dwight David Eisenhower
Conference considered a sellout by FDR
Yalta Conference
D-Day
June 6, 1944, Operation Overlord
Allied Powers
America, FDR, England, Churchill, Russia, Stalin
Axis Powers
Germany, Hitler, Italy, Benito Mussolini, Japan, Tojo
Reasons Hitler invades Russia (blank, blank, blank)
It’s the heart of communism, it is where lebensraum is to be found, it’s home to the largest Jewish population in the world
Desert Fox
Field Marshall Erwin Rommel
Hitler invades Poland, World War II begins!!!
September 1, 1939
Western Democracies policy of accepting Hitler’s demands in order to avoid conflict
Appeasement
To the failed putsch (blank, blank, blank)
Trial publicity will make Hitler a national figure, he writes the Mein Kampf, Hitler takes power legally
What does Nazi mean?
National Socialist German Workers Party
Forced Germany to accept responsibility for the war
War guilt clause
Point 14: general association to guarantee protection for great and small nations alike
League of Nations
Reasons for American involvement (blank, blank, blank)
Economic, unrestricted submarine warfare, anti-German propaganda
Causes of World War I (blank, blank, blank, blank)
Nationalism, Imperialism, entangling alliances, militarism, Germany’s rise as a world power
A people derive their identity from their nations
Nationalism
Define urbanization
The growth of towns and cities due to the movement of people from rural to urban areas
Key industry that drove the development of the industrial revolution
Textile industry
America’s reaction to the political stability in South America during the 1820s
Monroe Doctrine
Provide a long-term police plan for Europe by settling critical issues arising from the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars
Congress of Vienna
2nd century artifact that will unlock the lost ancient Egyptian culture
Rosetta Stone
Slogans and values that will represent the French Revolution
Liberty, equality, fraternity
A body of deputies from the three estates or orders
Estates General
The Second Continental Congress issues a declaration of independence on what day
July 4, 1776