| A | B |
|---|
| Yalta | location of end of war peace treaty |
| Pearl Harbor | event that brought US into WWII |
| Rhineland | section of land between France and Germany |
| Poland | area conquored by Hitler and began WWII |
| Appeasement | a policy in which a nation gives into an aggressors demand in order to maintain peace. |
| Atomic Bomb | weapon used to end the was in the Pacific |
| Nuremeberg trials | Nazi leaders brought to justice |
| Potsdam | Peace treaty in the Pacific |
| Douglas MacArthur | US general who defeats and rebuilds Japan for the US |
| Democratization | to form a nations government into a democracy |
| Dethrone | the emperor of Japan became figurehead |
| Demilitarization | Japan could no longer have a standing army |
| Nuclear power | a "clean" way to make energy |
| Nuclear proliferation | creating nuclear weapons |
| Green Revolution | to bring modernization and technology to the agriculture of developing nations |
| What to do with Germany | divide it |
| What to do with the colonies | give them independence. |
| NonAggression Pact | agreement between Germany and Russia |
| Buffer Zone | lands wanted by Stalin to protect Russia from future attack. |
| League of Nations | failed peace keeping orginaiztion of WWI |
| United Nations | peace keeping organization after WWII. |
| Security Council | the four major powers of the UN; US, China, Great Britain and Russia |
| radiation | poison emitted from nuclear/atomic energy |
