A | B |
Black Shirts | Used violence and intimidation to quiet opposition to Mussolini |
Mein Kampf | Book that criticized Jews and advocated a return to German power |
Sudetenland | Land given to Hitler at the Munich Conference |
Kristallnacht | Nazi attack on Jewish synagogues and businesses |
Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, and Japan |
Anti-Semitiam | Strong feelings of hatred and prejudice toward the Jews |
Munich Conference | Britain and France appeased Hitler by giving him land he demanded |
appeasement | giving in to another's demands in order to avoid trouble |
Neutrality Acs | Prohibited American loans and munition sales to nations at war |
Non-Aggression Pact | Germany and the USSR agreed to divide Poland and to not attack each other |
Lend-Lease Act | Provided billions of dollars of aid to victims of Axis aggression |
blitzkrieg | quick, hard-hitting style of warfare used by Germany during World War II |
Atlantic Charter | FDR and Churchill agreed to cooperate in ending aggression |
Benito Mussolini | Fascist leader of Italy |
Adolf Hitler | leader who spoke of the creation of a master race of Aryans |
Francisco Franco | Led a Fascist revolt against the government of Spain in 1936 |
Charles DeGaulle | Led the Free French forces after the evacuation at Dunkirk |
Winston Churchill | British leader during the Battle of Britain |
Cash and Carry | Amendment to the Neutrality Acts that allowed the U.S. to sell munitions to nations at war |
Destroyers for Bases | Gave the U.S. leases to British facilities in exchange for some older American ships |