unit IV other half test Flashcards
Lost generation
People who left their native country to live elsewhere
Existentialism
A philosophy based on the idea that people give making to their lives through their choices and actions
Surrealism
A 20th century artistic movement that focuses on the workings of the unconscious mind
Coalition government
A government controlled by a temporary alliance of several political parties
Appeasement
The making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war
Axis powers
In world war II the nation’s of Germany Italy and Japan which has formed an alliance in 1936
Atlantic charter
A declaration of principles issued in August 1941 by British prime minister Winston Churchill and US president Franklin Roosevelt on which the allied peace plan at the end of world war II was based
Aryan
To the Nazis the Germanic peoples who formed a master race
Blitzkrieg
Lightning war-a form of warfare in which surprise attacks with fast moving air planes are followed by massive attacks with infantry forces
Battle of Britain
A series of battles between German and British air forces fought over Britain in 1940-1941
Battle of midway
A 1942 sea and air battle of World War II in which American forces defeated Japanese forces in the central Pacific
Battle of Guadalcanal
A 1942-1943 battle of World War II in which allied troops drove Japanese forces from the Pacific islands of Guadalcanal
Battle of Stalingrad
1942-1943 battle of World War II in which German forces were defeated in their attempt to capture the city of Stalingrad in the Soviet union
Battle of the bulge
A 1944-1945 battle in which allied forces turned back the last major German offensive of World War II
D day
June 6, 1944 the day on which the allies began their invasion of the European mainland dieting world war II
Demilitarized
A reduction in a country’s ability to wage war achieved by disbanding its armed forces and prohibiting it from acquiring weapons
Democratization
The process of creating a government elected by the people
Fascism
a political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism a denial of individual rights and a dictatorial one party rule
Final solution
Hitler’s program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people
Genocide
The systematic killing of an entire people
Ghettos
City neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live
Isolation
A policy of avoiding political or military involvement with other countries
kamikaze
during world war II Japanese suicide pilots trained to sink allied ships by crashing bomb-filled planes into them
Kristallnacht
“Night of Broken Glass” the night of November 9, 1938 on which Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes businesses and synagogues throughout Germany
