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| appeasement | Giving in to the demands of an aggressor nation to keep the peace. |
| Neutrality Acts | The United States passed these in the mid-1930s to avoid any involvement in a European war. |
| Spanish Civil War | In 1936, this fight began as a local struggle, but soon drew other European powers into the fighting. |
| Anschluss | The union of Austria and Germany. |
| Sudetenland | This region of Czechoslovakia contained over 3 million Germans and was desired by Hitler to add to his empire. |
| Munich Conference | British and French leaders choose appeasement and gave into Hitler's demands by persuading the Czechs to surrender the Sudetenland without a fight. |
| Nazi-Soviet Pact | Publicly, Hitler and Stalin pledged peaceful relations. Secretly, the two agreed not to fight one another if the other went to war AND to divide up Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe. |
| Adolf Hitler | The leader of Nazi Germany. |
| Joseph Stalin | The leader of the Soviet Union. |
| Benito Mussolini | The fascist leader of Italy. |
| Neville Chamberlain | The leader of Great Britain before World War 2. |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | The president of the United States. |
| Axis Powers | Mainly Germany, Italy and Japan. |
| Allied Powers | Included Great Britain, France, the Soviet Unioun, China, the U.S., and 45 other nations. |
| blitzkrieg | A lightning war conducted by the Germans. |
| Phony war | During the winter of 1939-40, Britain and French troops hunkered down along the Maginot Line expecting a German attack that nerver came. |
| Dunkirk | British forces trapped here miraculously escaped with the help of an armada that ferried aver 300,000 troops to their safety. |
| Charles de Gaulle | The leader of France during the war. |
| radar | This is used to detect planes. |
| sonar | This is used to detect submarines under water. |
| Winston Churchill | The prime minister of Great Britain during the war. |
| The London Blitz | The German Luffwaffe's air campaign against Great Britan began in August 1940 and lasted till June 1941. |
| Operation Barbarossa | This is the name for Hitlers conquest of the Soviet Union. |
| Leningrad | This 2 1/2 year siege of this Russian city saw over 1 million citizens die during the German siege. |
| Lend-Lease Act | This allowed President Roosevelt to sell or lend war materials to "any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense to the U.S." |
| Atlatic Charter | Roosevelt and Churchill secretly met and set goals for the war-the final destruction of the Nazi tyranny-and for the postwar world. |
| Hideki Tojo | This Japanese militarist gained power in Japan and sought an Asian empire. |
| Pearl Harbor | The Japanese succesfully attacked and disabled the American naval fleet on December 7th, 1941. |
| genocide | deliberate murder |
| the Big Three | Roosevelt, Churchil, & Stalin |
| Reparations | Payment for damages caused by imprisonment |
| El Alamein | The allies defeated the Germans in this key north African battle |
| Battle of Stalingrad | Considered the turning point on the Eastern front whereupon the German suffered over 300,000 killed, wounded or captured in a key loss to the Russians |
| Eisenhower | He was made the supreme allied commander in 1944 |
| D-Day | The invasion to open a second front in Europe began on June 6, 1944 |
| Nuremberg Laws | laws restricting the rights of jews in Germany |
| Island Hopping | The technique used to defeat the Japanese in the Pacific War |
| Luftwaffe | German air force |
| Totalitarian state | the state controls all aspects of its citizens lives |
