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World War II
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10th Grade
04/02/2007

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Ethiopia
Definition
Independent African country invaded by Italy
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Manchuria
Definition
Northern Chinese province occupied by Japan
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General Francisco Franco
Definition
Spanish Fascist leader
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the Munich Conference
Definition
Conference that now symbolizes appeasement and surrender
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the Rhineland
Definition
Territory on the French side of the Rhine River invaded by Hitler
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appeasement
Definition
Response of Britain and France to Hitler's aggressive moves in 1936 and 1938
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(only) to condemn it
Definition
How the League of Nations reacted to Japanese aggression
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China
Definition
Japan went to war with this country in 1937.
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Haile Selassie
Definition
Emperor of Ethiopia who asked for League protection
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Italy and Japan
Definition
Nations that withdrew from the League in the 1930s
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nonintervention
Definition
Official policy of the Western democracies toward the Spanish civil war
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Austria
Definition
Nation joined to Germany in 1938 by Anschluss
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the Sudetenland
Definition
German area of Czechoslovakia
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Neville Chamberlain
Definition
British prime minister who gave in to Hitler's demands
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Czechoslovakia
Definition
Nation that disappeared from the map in 1939
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"""living space"""
Definition
"Lebensraum, Germany's excuse for expanding its borders"
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the Rome-Berlin Axis
Definition
The German-Italian alliance
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the Kellogg-Briand Pact
Definition
International treaty rejecting war as a way to settle disputes
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economic sanctions
Definition
The League's reaction to Italy's aggression in Africa
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the Versailles Treaty (ending WWI)
Definition
Treaty that Germans deeply resented
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the Nationalists and Loyalists (or Republicans)
Definition
The two opposing sides in Spain's civil war
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isolationism
Definition
"""Hands-off"" foreign policy favored by many Americans in the 1930s"
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"Germany, Italy, and Japan"
Definition
The three major Axis powers
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Winston Churchill
Definition
English statesman elected to replace Chamberlain
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France
Definition
Major Allied country taken by Hitler in June 1940
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General Charles de Gaulle
Definition
Leader of the French fighters
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the Soviet Union
Definition
Germany signed a nonaggression treaty with this country in 1939.
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the Polish Corridor
Definition
Strip of Polish territory that cut through Germany
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Poland
Definition
Hitler's attack on this country started World War II.
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Blitzkrieg
Definition
"Hitler's tactic of ""lightning war"""
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"Great Britain, U.S.A., U.S.S.R., China (plus France)"
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The four major Allies
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Denmark and Norway
Definition
Two Scandinavian countries invaded by Hitler in April 1940
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"the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg"
Definition
The three Low Countries taken by Hitler in May 1940
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Dunkirk
Definition
"Allied troops withdrew from this French seaport to England, by all boats available."
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the Free French
Definition
The French group that continued to fight the Germans
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Great Britain and France
Definition
Two Western nations that were defensive allies of Poland
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Danzig
Definition
"Free city on the Baltic Sea open to Poland, desired by Germany"
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the Siegfried Line
Definition
Germany's line of defense in the Rhineland
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Poland
Definition
Country that disappeared when the Soviet Union moved into it in 1939
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the Soviet Union
Definition
The only country to be expelled from the League of Nations for aggression
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"the ""phony war"" or Sitzkrieg (""sitting war"")"
Definition
Term for the nearly actionless early days of the war
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the Baltic States
Definition
"Term for the countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania taken by the Soviets in 1940"
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Finland
Definition
The U.S.S.R. was expelled from the League of Nations for invading this Scandinavian country
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the Petain (or Vichy) government
Definition
The French government under Hitler
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neutrality
Definition
Official policy of the United States toward the war until 1941
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the Soviet Union
Definition
Vast country Germany invaded in 1941 in violation of 1939 treaty
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"Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin"
Definition
The three leading Allied statesmen who met often during the war's years
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the Holocaust
Definition
Term for Hitler's war against the Jews
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Normandy
Definition
European beaches where the Allies landed in 1944
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the Battle of Britain
Definition
The period of heaviest German bombing of Great Britain
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the Royal Air Force
Definition
Fighting unit that successfully defended Great Britain
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Erwin Rommel
Definition
"Germany's general in North Africa, the ""Desert Fox"""
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Bernard Montgomery
Definition
Chief British general in North Africa
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Dwight Eisenhower
Definition
Supreme commander of the Allied forces in Europe
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Stalingrad
Definition
"Soviet city, site of tremendous six-month battle"
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sonar
Definition
New tracking device using sound waves that located submarines
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radar
Definition
New electronic tracking system that detected incoming aircraft
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"D-Day (June 6, 1944)"
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Term for the day of Allied landings in France
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"V-E Day (May 8, 1945)"
Definition
Term for the day of victory in Europe
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Berlin
Definition
Hitler committed suicide during the battle for this city.
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Operation Sea Lion
Definition
Hitler's plan to invade and conquer the British Isles
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Lend-Lease
Definition
U.S. policy of supplying Britain with war materials on credit
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El Alamein
Definition
Egyptian site where the British stopped the German advance
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the Battle of the Bulge
Definition
Germany's final counterattack against the Allies in Europe
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Italy
Definition
Axis power that was invaded from the south; it surrendered in 1943
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Pearl Harbor
Definition
"When Japan bombed this naval base, the United States entered the war."
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Australia
Definition
Island continent threatened by the Japanese
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aircraft carriers
Definition
Large ships that were seagoing air bases
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General Douglas MacArthur
Definition
U.S. commander in the Pacific
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the atomic bomb
Definition
"Terrifying new weapon first used on August 6, 1945"
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Hiroshima
Definition
First Japanese city hit by the new weapon
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kamikaze attacks
Definition
Suicide attacks by bomb-laden Japanese planes
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Nagasaki
Definition
Second Japanese city hit by the new bomb
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"V-J Day (September 2, 1945)"
Definition
The day Japan signed surrender documents
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the Philippines
Definition
Island group secured for the Allies by the Battle of Leyte Gulf
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island-hopping
Definition
Allied strategy of capturing some islands and skipping others
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Guadalcanal
Definition
"Southern island of the Solomons, site of an airfield and fierce fighting"
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the Aleutians
Definition
Alaskan islands where Japan landed
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the Battle of Midway
Definition
Crucial battle near Hawaii that turned back the Japanese
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the Battle of the Coral Sea
Definition
Sea battle that stopped the Japanese thrust toward Australia
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Guam and Wake Island
Definition
Two American outposts captured by Japan in 1941-2
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Manchuria
Definition
Region north of China taken from Japan by the Soviet Union in 1945
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"""Asia for Asians"""
Definition
Japan's slogan to keep Asia out of western control
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the Netherlands East Indies
Definition
Dutch island colony taken by Japan
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French Indochina
Definition
French colony that became a Japanese protectorate
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Isoroku Yamamoto
Definition
Japan's great naval strategist
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