AGS World History Chapter26 World War II
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- Munich Pact
- A 1938 agreement between Great Britain and Germany to appease Hitler
- Crisis
- A time of danger; a turning point in events
- Conference
- A meeting to discuss ideas and plans
- Front
- The place where armies fight; the battle line
- Arsenal
- A place where a country stores or makes weapons
- Defensive
- Protecting oneself rather than attacking others
- Appeasement
- A policy of making others happy or content; giving in so that others will be happy and will not cause a war
- Blitzkrieg
- lightning war
- V-E Day
- Victory in Europe Day
- Guerilla warfare
- A type of fighting that involves small attacks against an enemy or the things it needs and uses
- Lend-Lease program
- A program developed by Franklin Roosevelt allowing Britain to borrow war supplies from the U.S.during WWII
- Nuclear
- Having to do with atoms or energy from atoms
- V-J Day
- Victory in Japan Day
- Occupied country
- A country that the Axis powers took over and stayed in
- Axis
- A make-believe line that goes through the middle of an object that spins around it
- Glorify
- To praise someone or something
- Destroyer
- A small, fast warship that uses guns and other weapons to protect ships from submarines
- Kamikaze
- A japanese pilot who crashed his plane into an enemy ship and destroyed it and himself
- Atomic Bomb
- A bomb that uses nuclear energy and has much destructive power
- Axis Powers
- The alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II
- Maginot line
- A line of concrete forts builty by France along its border with Germany
- D-Day
- The Allied invasion of France in 1944