A | B |
Neville Chamberlain | British Prime Minister at Munich; appeased Hitler by ceding Hitler the Sudetenland at the Munich Conference; believed that he had achieved "Peace in our time." |
Winston Churchill | British Prime Minister during WW II; inspired British to hold out agaist the Germans during the Battle of Britain |
appeasement | Giving up principles to pacify an aggressor |
Nonaggression Pact | Signed by Stalin and Hitler; Poland divided between them; Hitler aviods a two-front war |
blitzkrieg | German lightning war; fast tanks and powerful aircraft |
Sudetenland | Western frontier of Czechoslovakia |
Charles DeGualle | Leader of the Free French |
Luftwaffe | German Airforce |
RAF | The Royal Air Force |
Battle of Britain | German bombing of Britain from Augustto October 1940 |
Vichy Government | Puppet German government in France |