All terms in this list:
Adolf Hitler: Rose to power in Germany in the years between theWorld Wars
Wrote Mein Kampf—became the bible of the Nazis
3. Wanted to create a “Third Reich”—the next great German
empire
Mein Kampf: became the bible of the Nazis
Third Reich: the next great German
empire
war reparations: payments for losing a war
concentration camps: places to
exterminate Jews and
others
Joseph Stalin: Soviet Union
Benito Mussolini: Italy
Tojo: Japan
Neutral: not choosing sides
Neutrality Acts: passed by the United States
Congress in the 1930s to ensure that the US would
not become entangled again in foreign conflicts.
Munich Pact: deal between Great Britain/France and
Germany that appeased Hitler by allowing
him to take the Sudetenland in return for
promising to take no more land
Appeasement: to yield or concede to the
belligerent demands of (a nation, group, person, etc.) in a
conciliatory effort, sometimes at the expense of justice or
other principles
non aggression pact: with Ger.
(1939): deal made between the Soviet Union and
Germany in 1930 where each promised not to attack
one another
Maginot Line: 350 mile line of tunnels, concrete forts,
and antitank fields
Blitzkrieg: Lightning
warfare
Cash-and-Carry Policy: allowed the sale
of material to belligerents, as long as the recipients arranged
for the transport using their own ships and paid immediately
in cash, assuming all risk in transportation.
Destroyers for Bases: fifty mothballed destroyers were transferred to
the Royal Navy from the United States Navy in exchange
for land rights on British possessions
Lend-Lease: a plan of President Roosevelt’s to help Great Britain. The
United States would be able to lend anything to Great
Britain to help them vs. the Germans.
U-Boats: German submarines
Pearl Harbor: Sunday, December 7, 1941 at 8am
1. Japan diplomats at White
House to discuss peace
2. 191 Japanese warplanes
attack PH airfields
3. dropped bombs on our ships
4. 1 hour later:
a. 170 more warplanes
home front: What goes on in the United States during the war
mobilize: get ready for war
ration: an Allotted amount
war bonds: sold to help raise money
propaganda: A concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behavior of large numbers of people.
internment camp: Japanese-Americans
11,000
sold houses
closed businesses
put into camps
realesed 1944
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