History Unit 9
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- Lebansraum means...
- living space
- Nazi theory Lebansraum
- country must have room for economic expansion, & countries east of germany should provide living space for empire
- Hitler aka...
- fuhrer
- How did Hitler start WWII?
- by invading Poland
- Benito Mussolini aka...
- Il Duce
- How many deaths was Stalin responsible for?
- about 20 million of his own people and others
- Stimson Doctrine
- denied diplomatic recognition of any territory taken over by force, response to Japan's invasion of Machuria
- N A Z I
- National Socialist German Workers' party
- Totalitarian state in Germany from 1933 to 1945 under Adolf Hitler
- Third Reich
- "Night of Broken glass" - night of terror against jews by Nazis
- Kristallnact
- The systematic extermination of a whole cultural or racial group
- Genocide
- prejudice against Jewish people
- anti-Semitism
- Giving in or pacifying someone to avoid conflict. Was followed before WWII by Britain and france to avoid conflict w/ hitler
- Appeasement
- Chamberlain agreed to give up the Sudetenland to Hitler in exchange for a promise to not seek any further territorial expansion (appeasement)
- Munich Agreement
- Pact signed by Nazi germany and soviet union - secured hitler's eastern front from soviet attack and gave stalin extra time to build up Soviet unions military strength
- Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
- Brittish statesman and author, rallied Brittish over the radio to up spirit during WW II
- Winston Churchill
- Known for failed policy of appeasement toward Nazi Germany. Participated in Munich Agreement and returned from conference proclaiming he had acheived peace.
- Neville Chamberlain
- French political leader, headed free french government in london during WWII
- Charles DeGaulle
- Laws passed to keep US neutral during beginning of WWII in Europe
- Neutrality acts
- Act which allowed the lease or lend of any defensive material to any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the US
- Lend-Lease act
- Agreement between FDR and Winston Churchill which affirmed the right of people to choose their own government and be free of foreign agression
- Atlantic Charter
- Pact between Germany, Italy, and Japan signed in 1940
- Tripartite Pact
- Forced March of 78000 US and Filipino prisoners of war after defeat by the Japanese on the island of Bataan. Prisoners marched 65 miles with little food or water, 2/3 of americans died
- Bataan death March
- US Military leader, commander of US forces in Pacific
- Douglas MacArthur
- Commander of Allied Forces in Wstn Europe during WWII and commander of D day Invasion of France
- Dwight D Eisenhower
- June 6 1944, allied invasion of Germany occupied France
- D Day
- The second of three WWII meetings of US britain and the soviet Union. Decision made concerning dividing Germany into occupational zones, to allow free elections in E. Europe, and to have the soviet union enter the war against Japan as soon as Germany was
- Yalta Conference
- Holocaust deaths
- 6 million jews
- US President after death of FDR - authorized use of Atomic Bomb
- Harry S Truman
- Scientific and technical program that set up atomic bomb research in New Mexico
- Manhattan Project