| A | B |
|---|
| kellogg-briand pact | international agreement that made war "illegal" |
| lytton commission | investagating commision sent by the league of nations to manchuria during japanesse invasion |
| falange | spanish facist party |
| axis powers | alliance including germany italy and japan |
| anti comintern treaty | agreement between germany and japan to work together to oppose russian communism |
| munich conference | meeting called by hitler in 1938 o discuss the czech problem which led to the annexation of sudetenland by germany |
| appeasement | policy of attempting to preserve peace by yeilding to the demands of the aggressor |
| german soviet | 1939 agreement dividing eastern europe into spheres of influence |
| blitzkrieg | german word for "lightning war" |
| phony war | early phase of world war 2 marked by littleactivity in western europe |
| collaborators | person willing to assit their countrys enemies |
| luftwaffe | the german air force in wolrd war 2 |
| battle of britain | combat between the german and british air forces in world war 2 |
| neutralitiy acts | law passed between 1935 and 1937 aimed at keeping the united states neutral in future wars |
| isolationalist | persons who believe that their own country should not become invovled in relations with other nations especially alliances |
| lend lease act | 1941 legislation allowing the united states to supply war materials to great britain on credit |
| atlantic charter | 1941 statement of shared national policies by the united states and britain |
| new order | adolf hilters plan got organizing europe into a single politival and economic system ruled by germany |
| final solution | hitlers program to annihilate the entire jewish population of europe |
| auschwitz | persons who believe in the abolision of all governement |
| holocaust | systematic elimination of european jews by the nazis |
| soft underbelly of the axis | Winstons chruchhills description of italy and teh balkans during world war 2 |
| island hopping | americains strategy in teh pacific campaign in world war 2 calling 4 only certain japanesse islands 2 b captured while the rest were bypassed |
| operation overload | codename for the allied invasion of northwest france |
| V-E day | may 8th 1945 the day if victory in europe in world war 2 |
| V-J day | september 2nd 1945 the day of victory in teh pacific during world war 2 |
| 1936 | germany occupies rhineland |
| 1938 | germany annexes austria |
| 1938 | germany annexes the sudetenland |
| 1939 | hitler makes rest of czechoslovakia a prot4ectorate acguires memel and surrounding territory |
| 1939 | mussolin invades albania |
| 1939 | hitler-stalin pact is signed |
| 1939 | wolrd war 2 begins |
| nationlista | army leaders, church leaders, landowners, nobility |
| germany | fully equiped, military units |
| italy | fully equiped, military units, 50,000 troops |
| loyalists | workers, peasnts, socialists, communists |
| soviet union | planes, technicians, military advisors |
| international bridges | about 70,000, volunteer fights |
