loading...
« Previous 1 3
Click flashcard terms on the left to see their definitions.
High Scores
There are no High Scores Yet.
Share This List

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

Friends with BookmarkOS

Definitions from Wiktionary under the GNU FDL.
Sentences copyrighted by their respective publishers.
terms of service privacy policy