The Allies

The allies were the big four Allied powers of World War II

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Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union

Appeasement

 Appeasement is Giving ur stuff things or stuff to the demands of a person  that attacks another first.

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giving in to the demands of an aggressor in order to keep the peace

Armistice

Armistice to stop fighting

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an agreement to stop fighting

Aryans

Aryans were peole from norterh europe that had blond hair and blue eyes .

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someone from Northern Europe, especially someone with blond hair and blue eyes

The Battle of Alamein

The Battle of Alamein was when the germans coulndt advacne casue of the british 

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In Egypt, the British finally stopped the German advance during the long Battle. They then turned the tables on the Germans, driving the Axis forces back across Libya into Tunisia.

Atlantic Charter

Atlantic Charter was the creation of two leaders (roosevelt & Churchill) who set a goal toi destroy thr nazi tyranny.

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Aug. 1941, Roosevelt & Churchill met on a warship in the Atlantic in which the 2 leaders set goals for the war (such as "the final destruction of the Nazi tyranny") and for the postwar world

Battle of Midway

The battle of midway  was the U.S. ambushes the Japanese and they suffer heavy losses and never really recover from this counter-attack

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June 4-7, 1942 (6 months after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor); The United States discovers Japan's intended trap at the Midway Atoll and instead the U.S. ambushes the Japanese and they suffer heavy losses and never really recover from this counter-attack

Battle of Stalingrad

Battle of Stalingrad is one of the costliest of the war.

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a major tuning point in the Soviet Union, and one of the costliest of the war; In 1942, Hitler was determined to take Stalin's namesake city & Stalin was equally determined not to let it fall; the Soviets end up encircling their attackers and the Germans finally surrender in Jan. 1943

Battle of the Bulge

 The Battle of the Bulge was Germany last massive counterattack of WWII

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Dec. 1944 - Jan 1945; Germany launches its last massive counterattack of WWII, and there were great losses on both sides; the U.S. suffers the most casualties here out of all the WWII battles: 19,000 dead: Germany holds off Allied advance for about 6 week but eventually loses their foothold

Berlin Blockade/Airlift:

Berlin Blockade/Airlift   was that Stalin  controls Berlin, by sealing off every railroad and highway into the Western sectors of the city.

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june 1948 - May 1949, during the Cold War, Stalin tries to completely control Berlin, even though it was occupied and divided by all 4 victorious Allies, by sealing off every railroad and highway into the Western sectors of the city. Western powers responded to the blockade by supplying West Berliners with food and fuel via cargo planes for more than a year - and the Soviets end their blockade but tensions between the countries grows deeper

Big Three

Big Three was Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin

Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin

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Blitzkrieg

Blitzkrieg was  the "lightning war"

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"lightning war", where Hitler used improved tank & airpower technology to strike a devastating blow against the enemy

Cold War

Cold War was the unfriendly relationship between the US and the Soviet 

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this unfriendly relationship between the US and the Soviet Union after the Second World War

D-Day

D-Day  the  Allies invade France;

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June 6, 1944; Allies invade France; 176,000 troops land on the beaches of Normandy

The Final Solution

The Final Solution to remove Jewish people from Europe by killing them all

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Adolf Hitler's plan to remove Jewish people from Europe by killing them all

Guernica

Guernica was  a  town in  northern Spain, which was destroyed by bombs dropped by German aircraft 

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a town in the Basque area of northern Spain, which was destroyed by bombs dropped by German aircraft in 1937, during the Spanish Civil War.

Haile Selassie

Haile Selassie was he emperor of Ethiopia

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the emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974, who is remembered especially for having modernized his country

Munich Conference

Munich Conference was the British & French persuaded the Czechs to surrender the Sudetenland to Hitler

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Sept. 1938, British & French persuaded the Czechs to surrender the Sudetenland to Hitler

Hiroshima

Hiroshima was a city in japan  that was destroyed by a nucler bomb by the U.S.  

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a city in Japan which was destroyed in 1945 during World War II, when a U.S. nuclear bomb was dropped on it, killing very many people

Kamikaze Pilots

Kamikaze Pilots who were Japanese pilots who undertook suicide missions

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Japanese pilots who undertook suicide missions, crashing their explosive-laden airplanes into American warships

Reparations

Reparations  was money paid by a defeated country after a war

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money paid by a defeated country after a war (ex. Germany), for all the deaths, damage etc it has caused

Miracle of Dunkirk

Miracle of Dunkirk was the british sent all available naval vessels, merchant ships, and fishing boats across the English Channel.

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British sent all available naval vessels, merchant ships, and fishing boats across the English Channel and despite German air attacks, the armada ferried more than 300,000 troops to safety in Britain; this heroic rescue raised British morale

Nazi-Soviet Pact

Nazi-Soviet Pact was itler & Stalin to peaceful relations

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publicly bound Hitler & Stalin to peaceful relations; but secretly the 2 agreed not to fight if the other went to war to divide up Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe between them

NATO

NATO which give military help to each other

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization; a group of countries including the US and several European countries, which give military help to each other

Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor was a  naval base in Hawaii, which was suddenly attacked by Japanese planes in December 1941

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an important US naval base in Hawaii, which was suddenly attacked by Japanese planes in December 1941. Many warships were destroyed or damaged, and this caused great shock and anger in the US, and made the US start fighting in World War II.

Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis

Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axishe 3 countries agreed to fight Soviet communism, and not to interfere with one another's for territorial expansion

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The Axis Powers; the 3 countries agreed to fight Soviet communism, and not to interfere with one another's for territorial expansion

Treaty of Versailles (regards to Germany)

 Treaty of Versailles was peace agreement made in  France, following the defeat of Germany in World War I,

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a peace agreement made in 1919 at Versailles in France, following the defeat of Germany in World War I, between Germany and the allies (=the countries that fought against Germany in the war, including France, Russia, the UK, and the US). According to the treaty, Germany lost some of its land and had to agree to pay large amounts of money to the allies for damage caused by the war. The treaty also established the League of Nations

League of Nations

League of Nations an international organization that was established after World War I to encourage countries to work together

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an international organization that was established after World War I to encourage countries to work together and achieve international peace. It was replaced in 1946 by the United Nations

Total War

Total War was resources into a war effort

channeling of a nation's entire resources into a war effort

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Truman Doctrine

Truman Doctrine the United States policy trying to contain the spread of communism

United States policy, established in 1947, of trying to contain the spread of communism

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United Nations

United Nations nations met to draft the charter for the UN.

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1st meeting in April 1945, 50 nations met to draft the charter for the UN; each member nation has 1 vote in the General Assembly; a smaller body, the Security Council has greater power and is made up of 5 permanent members: The U.S., Russia, Britain, France, and China; final ratification in Oct. 1945; currently 192 member countries

V-E day

V-E day the day on which victory in Europe in World War II was celebrated

Victory in Europe Day; May 8th 1945, the day on which victory in Europe in World War II was celebrated

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Anshuluss

Anshuluss leads to austrians demise as aba independent country. 

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The name given to the vents in which hoitlers germany took control of austira in 1938.