WW II
These are some of the key things in WW II
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- Reparations
- payment in return for damages
- Axis Powers
- Powers that opposed the Allies included Japan, Germany and Italy.
- Maginot Line
- network of fortifications that the French thought would protect them from all invasion
- Allied Powers
- • France, Britain, USSR, United States, and China as well as 45 other
- Collectivization
- The process of transforming an economy from free-market to communist - in Stalin's USSR this was when farms were made into small collectives
- Cash and Carry
- • The agreement by the United States to sell weapons to the Allies as long as they paid in full and carried it away themselves
- National Socialist German Workers Party
- is anti-Semitic, rabidly nationalist, and dedicated to the creation of a greater Germany
- Kristallnacht
- November 9, 1938 - organized destruction of Jewish homes, stores, and synagogues that resulted in the round up of more than 30000 Jews and the destruction of more than 1000 synagogues
- Lend-Lease
- Act in which the United States gave supplies and whatever else necessary to the Allies during WWII
- Il Duce
- Italian for leader
- Embargo
- When a government refuses to trade with a country
- Infamy
- The group of things that are famous in a bad way
- Rhineland
- Area demilitarized af ter WWI that Hitler takes back in 1936
- Holocaust
- Death of 6 million Jews and 5 million others in death camps around Europe
- Communism
- • Economic system in which all propert y is owned by the community
- Atlantic Charter
- Agreement reached in 1941 by FDR and Churchill that set up a postwar planthat included the plans for the United Ntions
- Third Reich
- Germany from 1933 - 1945
- Isolationism
- Wanting to be lef t alone - not involved in world affairs
- Fascism
- When the country is more important than the individual. The government has control of the economic and social lives of the people. The government ruthlessly suppresses dissent.
- Ardennes Forest
- The unprotected area between Germany and France that was stormed by the Germans in their invastion in 1940
- Appeasement
- Practice of giving in to aggression to avoid war
- Self-determination
- the right of a people to have their own country and government
- Luftwaffe
- German air force
- Fuhrer
- German word for leader
- Purge
- to get rid of
- Blitzkrieg
- Lightning war that uses tanks and planes