WWII Before Pearl Harbor
Name for the genocide of Jews and other ethnic groups throughout the German Empire. This genocide was planned in great detail and involved the participation of a lot of people.
What is the Holocaust?
Invasion of Normandy, France by primarily U.S.A., British and Canadian troops. Important because it opened up a new front on the war, forcing Germany to fight on all sides.
What is D-Day?
Payments from the United States to different European countries to help them with war reparations. The United States was trying to stop the spread of communism by proving that it was democracy and capitalism could offer more than the soviets could.
What is the Marshall Plan?
War in which the Asian country involved remained split by the war's end.
What is the Korean War?
German war strategy in which they hit their enemy's lines quickly with planes, tanks, and paratroopers. Followed by massive flanking invasions of infantry. Lightning War.
What is Blitzkrieg?
Axis power whose empire stretched throughout the Pacific Ocean, Korea, China, and Southeast Asia.
What is Japan?
Conference in which it was decided to split up Germany and Berlin into different zones. Also, the Soviet Union agreed to allow the Eastern Bloc to hold open elections.
What is the Yalta Conference?
Means Restructuring. In the 1980s under the leadership of Gorbachev, the USSR decided that they should allow for open elections in their member countries. Also, they reformed the Soviet economy to include elements of a free market economic system.
What is Perestroika?
What is the Nonagression Pact?
American military strategy that involved picking and choosing which islands would be necessary to take from Japan as the US made their way closer and closer to the Japanese mainland.
What is Island Hopping?
United States policy of stopping the spread of communism throughout the world. Whether that be through financial or military support.
What is the policy of containment?
War in which the Asian country involved ended up becoming united under communism (despite United States involvement).
What is the Vietnam War?
Laws that made it impossible for Jews to be citizens within the German Empire. Later these laws were extended to other ethnic groups throughout Europe.
What are the Nuremberg Laws of 1935?
New weapon discovered during WWII. Both the explosion and the subsequent radiation make this the most destructive weapon that has ever been used in a military capacity throughout history.
What is the atomic bomb?
Defensive military alliance forged between the Western European countries and the United States in 1949.
What is NATO?
Several days during which the Cold War tensions reached their peak. The United States discovered USSR missiles in Cuba and responded by threatening the USSR and blockading Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Evacuation of British and French soldiers from France. Nearby private boats and military ships aided in the evacuation.
What is Dunkirk?
Battle in Russia where the German forces finally get turned around. Cold Russian winter was a major reason for the German defeat. Bloodiest battle in WWII.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
Defensive military alliance forged between the Eastern Bloc and Russia in 1949.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Cambodian communist revolution in which 25% of the country's population fell victim to genocide.
What is the Khmer Rouge?