Road to WW1 quiz #2
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- Anschluss
- union between Germany and Austria
- Sudetenland
- land acquired by Germany through the Munich Pact
- Policy of Appeasement
- policy practiced by Britain and France, basically giving into aggression of Germany
- Declaration of Lima
- Pan-American union declares united opposition to foreign inttervention and aggression
- Ribbentrop Molotov
- non aggression pact between Germany and the soviet union
- Declaration of Panama
- Pan American union establlishes a 300-1000 mile safety zone around the Americas
- William Shirer
- wrote " The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich"
- Kurt Von Schuschnigg
- Austrian chancellor invited to meet Hitler at his villa in order to come up with an Austrian German alliance
- Chamberlain
- British prime minister who met Hitler in Munich; Hitler told him that he wanted the Sudetenland
- Daladier
- represented France in Munich when Hitler told him that he wanted the Sudetenland
- Winston Churchill
- Chamberlain's political rival for the leadership of GB; eventually becomes prime minister
- Henri Petain
- would control Vichy (Nazi puppet state)
- Charles de Gaulle
- French general that fled to England who would control the Free french government
- Munich Pact
- turned the Sudetenland over to Germany without a shot being fired
- Blitzkrieg
- the lightning war
- Sitzkrieg
- the sitting war
- Maginot Line
- fortification on the border between France and Germany (FRENCH SIDE)
- Siegfried Line
- fortification on the border between France and Germany (GERMAN SIDE)
- Battle of Britain
- German plan to invade Britain
- Royal Air Force
- British air force during the B OF B
- Dunkirk
- part of France that the Allied forces evacuated
- Wendell Wilkie
- Roosevelt's Republican opponent who supported FDR's policy that we should aid Britain
- Hideki Tojo
- leader of the Japanese military
- Emperor Hirohito
- Japan's revered emperor but didn't have control of the military
- Axis Tripartite Pact
- mutual defense treaty between Japan, Germany, and Italy
- Destroyer Deal
- legal cover for the US to aid Britain without violating neutrality
- Selective Service Act
- 1 million men drafted although we weren't in the war yet
- Election of 1940
- Willkie vs. Roosevelt; no difference between candidates so people voted for one they knew best (ROOSEVELT)
- Lend Lease
- Replaced "cash and carry", president could lend or lease arms and other supplies to "any country whose defense was vital to the US"
- Atlantic Charter
- document FDR and Churchill agreed on that included four freedoms: want, fear, speech, and worship
- Battle of the Atlantic
- undeclared naval war between US and Germany; patrolled Atlantic and radioed positions of German ships to the British
- Isoruko Yamamoto
- mastermind behind Pearl Harbor
- Takeo Yoshikawa
- Japanese spy
- Chuichi Nagumo
- commander of the fleet that attacked PH
- Admiral Husband Kimmel
- american admiral in charge at PH
- General Walter Short
- american general in charge at PH
- Frank Knox
- secretary of navy at the time