| A | B |
|---|
| Hitler | Fascist leader of Germany |
| Weimar Republic | government of germany after WWI ended |
| Nazi Party | political party of Hitler |
| 3rd reich | the third kingdom started by Hitler |
| Great Depression | post WWI economic bust that caused problems around the world |
| Tsar Nicholas II | Tsar of Russia during WWI that was overthrown |
| Rasputin | the advisor to Russia queen while the tsar was out the front during wwi ...guy who just wouldn't die |
| bolsheviks | russian communists who overthrown the government |
| Lenin | leader of the bolsheviks or russian communists |
| Stalin | leader of Russia after lenin: gulags, 5 yr plans, collectivization |
| new economic policy | half way between communism and capitalism after Russia went communistic |
| 5 year plans | of heavy industrialization started by Stalin to modernize the state of Russia |
| USSR | Russia |
| Gulags | russian work camps |
| Mussolini | fascist leader of Italy |
| Fascism | charasmatic leaders who rise to power by blaming scapegoats for the problems of society-popular after WWI |
| Ethiopia | taken over by Italy to distract the public from realizing Mussolini wasn't effective |
| Treaty of Versailles | ended WWI-1919 |
| Austria | annexed by Germany 1938 |
| Sudetenland | part of Czechoslovakia that a lot of germans lived in and Germany wanted |
| appeasement of munich | when allies allowed hitler to take over teh Sudetenland and did nothing |
| William Chamberlain | prime minister of GB before WWII really took off |
| Czechoslovakia | taken by Germany in 1938 |
| non-Aggression Pact | Germany and Russia alliance |
| Pact of Steel | Germany and Italy alliance |
| Finland | Russia invaded in 1939-winter war |
| Sept 1, 1939 | invasion of Poland and start to WWI |
| phony war | after poland fell this was the wait for the war to start due to bad weather |
| Denmark and Norway | first invaded by Hitler to set up air bases for the military bombardment of England |
| Battle of France | tricked french into thinking they were invaded from the north and crossed the Maginot line with a giant force to trap the allies |
| Dunkirk beach | where 300,000 + men were rescued after the loss of the battle for France |
| Maginot Line | French line of defenses between France and Germany |
| Battle for Britain | Operation Sea Lion-Hitler's plan to take England -bombing |
| Blitzekreig | lighting war-bombing like in Englang-quick war |
| Balkans | Hitler turned here after his wasn't successful against England |
| Tito | resistance leader against Germans in Yugoslavia |
| Aryan | superior race according to Hitler and the Nazi party |
| Anti-Semitism | racism against Jewish people |
| final soluation | plan to kill all the Jews-started after the decision to invade Russia-jeocommunists |
| ghetto | where they sent jews to live after they were forced to leave their homes-before the camps |
| judeocommunist | jewish communist-Russia |
| Holocaust | the killing and genocide of the Jewish people by the Nazi government of Germany-6 million killed |
| French Vichy | puppet state of France |
| June 22, 1941 | invasion of Russia by Germany |
| Tamerlane | warlord who the Russias opened his grave and the next day Germany invaded their country |
| BAttle of Leningrad | Germans tried to starve the people into submission |
| battle of Stalingrad | important battle in the East where the Russias where able to push the German advance backwards |
| D-Day | invasion of Normady, France where the Allies opened up a second front and caused the Germans to fight a 2 front war |
| battle of the Bulge | last major offensive of the Germans on the Western front of Europe |
| cannibalism | it happened during the war-hunger |
| Pearl Harbor | Dec 7, 1941 attack on US |
| Philippines | US controlled in the Pacific and Japan didn't want us out there |
| Bataan Death March | soldiers stuck on the Philippines after the attack on Pearl Harbor -pow's |
| Tripartite Pact | Japan, Italy, and Germany alliance |
| Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere | to liberate colonies from European overlords...but Japan just took control of them |
| 1937 | Japan invaded China |
| Rape of Nanking | when Japan terrorized the Chinese at Nanking to kill the will of the Chinese to resist the invasion |
| Battle of Midway | 1942 battle where the US suprised attacked most of the Japanese navy. the Japanese navy never recovered |
| battle of Iwo Jima | 1945-brought US closer to Japan |
| battle of guadalcanal | 1942-43-island hopping and dislodging the japanese from southeast Asian islands |
| atomic bombs | dropped by the US on Japan and led to the end of the war |
| Hiroshima and Nagaskai | cities the atomic bombs were droppedo on |
| Kristallnacht | night of broken glass-led to increase actions against Jews in Germany -1938 |
| Nuremberg Laws | laws passed by the Nazi's limiting the rights and freedoms of Jews in Germany-1933 started |
| Battle of Coral Sea | 1942-1st time japan lost to the allies! |
