Flashcards
Chapter 9
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- 1Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler led the Nazi party. the son of a minor Austrian civil servant, Hitler was a failed artist, a wounded and decorated world war 1 soldier, and a person who teetered on the brink of madness
- 2island hoppingworld war II strategy that involved seasoning selective japanese-held island in the Pacific while bypassing others
- 3Joseph StalinJoseph Stalin took Lennon's place at the head of the Communist party
- 4Winston ChurchillWinston Churchill was a past British prime minister
- 5Benito MussoliniBenito Mussolini entered the world stage in 1919, Mussolini also founded the fascist party
- 6Franklin RooseveltFranklin Roosevelt was the United States president through the great depression and world war II
- 7Harry TrumanHarry Truman was the 33rd president and surved after FDR
- 8Dwight EinsinhowerDwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was an American army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he was a five-star general in the United States Army and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe.
- 9totalitarianismtheory of government in which a single party or leader controls the economic, social, and cultural lives of its peoples
- 10appeasementthe policy that France and Britain pursued against aggressive Nations during the 1930s is known as appeasement. it is a policy of granting concessions and potential enemy in hope that they will maintain peace.
- 11blitskregsudden attack
- 12alliesBritain France and eventually many other nations including the Soviet Union, the United States, and China.
- 13Axis powerseventually included Germany, Italy, Japan, and several other nations.
- 14lend / leaseact passed in 1941 that allowed President Roosevelt to sell or lend war supplies to any country whose defense had considered vital to safety of the United States
- 15Pearl harborPearl harbor, Hawaii, was the site of the United States Navy's main Pacific base
- 16D-DayJune 6th 1944-the Allies hit Germany in force.
- 17starlingaurdmajor battle between German and Soviet troops in World War II. The battle was fought in the winter of 1942–1943 and ended with the surrender of an entire German army.
- 18intermenttemporary imprisonment of members of specific group
- 19war bondsWar bonds are debt securities issued by a government to finance military operations and other expenditure in times of war.
- 20Rationinggovernment-controlled limits on the amount of certain goods that are civilian could buy during wartime
- 21kamikazeJapanese pilots who deliberately crashed planes into American ships during world war II
- 22Nuremberg Trialstrials in which Nazis leaders were charged with war crimes