| A | B |
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| Battle of the Marne | German defeat in WWI which left the Schleiffen plan in ruins |
| Pearl Harbor | Japanese attack on the American navy which brought the US into WWII |
| El Alamein | British defeat General Rommel and prevent the Nazis from taking control of the Suez canal and oil in the Middle East |
| Stalingrad | Soviets with the help of Russian winter defeat Germans, turning point of the war in the East, Germans start retreat back to Berlin |
| D - Day | Allies invade Normandy France and force Germany to fight a two front war |
| Guadalcanal | US marines defeat Japanese and prevent completion of airfield, American victory was starting point for MacArthur's island hopping campaign |
| Philippines | Japan takes this island from US, Gen. MacArthur reclaims after victory at Leyte Gulf |
| Hiroshima and Nagasaki | US drops the atomic bomb on these two cities to end WWII in the Pacific |
| Kristallnacht | "Night of the broken glass", Nazi's destroy Jewish businesses and synagogues |
| Nuremberg laws | As a result of these laws,Nazi's strip Jews of citizenship and rights |
| Genocide | the systematic killing of an entire people |
| Schlieffen Plan | Germany's plan to avoid a two front war in WWI |
| Joseph Stalin | Soviet leader who initiated 5 year plan to promote industrial growth |
| Vladimir Lenin | Bolshevik leader who was the "father of the Russian Revolution" |
| Bolsheviks | the communist party in Russia before 1922 |
| Adolf Hitler | leader of Nazi Germany during WWII |
| Benito Mussolini | leader of fascist Italy during WWII |
| Emperor Hirohito | leader of fascist Japan during WWII |
| trench warfare | responsible for the stalemate in WWI on the Western front |
| no man's land | the area between the trenches in WWI |
| Triple Alliance | Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary |
| Triple Entente | France, Great Britain, Russia |
| Central Powers | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria |
| Allies (WWI) | France, Great Britain, Russia, US |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, Japan |
| Allies (WWII) | France, Great Britain, US, Soviet Union |
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand | his assassination was the spark that caused WWI |
| Mein Kampf | "my struggle", Hitler's book that outlined his goals and ideas |
| Lebensraum | "living space", the idea that Germay would expand under the Nazis |
| Reichstag Fire | caused negative publicit for the Communists and allowed the Nazis to win a majority in the next election |
| Treaty of Versailles | peace treaty that ended WWI |
| War guilt clause | Germany had to admit sole responsibility for starting WWI |
| appeasement | policy of giving in to demands in order to avoid conflict |
| Holocaust | the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis during WWII |
| reparations | payment for war damages |
| fascism | a form of governemtn headed by a dictator that invovles total government control of political, economic, cultural, religious and social activities |
| Sudetenland | the western part of Czechoslovakia that Hitler annexed after the Munich Conference |
| U boat | German submarine |
| Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare | brought the US into WWI |
| League of Nations | peacekeeping orgnaization formed after WWI |
| new weapons during WWI | tanks, airplanes, poison gas, machine gun |
| Zimmermann telegram | German proposal to Mexico for an alliance, made the US upset and helped bring America into WWI |
| Nazis | fascist party in Germany |
| blitzkrieg | Germany's lightning quick attack using tanks and airplanes to conquer Poland and other countries during WWII |
| Battle of Britain | British air force defeats the German air force and causes Hitler to call off his invasion of Britain |
