Vocabulary Terms
This policy backfired, and led to more land for the Nazis.
The policy of appeasement.
This was the first land that Hitler moved into, it was a demilitarized zone between Britain and France. Hitler remilitarized this area.
The Rhineland.
The leader of Germany during the lead-up to WWII.
Adolf Hitler.
America's naval base in Hawaii, which was attacked by the Empire of Japan, was called what.
The state-sponsored persecution and mass murder of millions of European Jews, and others was called.
The Holocaust.
The annexation of this land was left up to a vote by the Germans, and people from said land. It was called the Anschluss.
Austria.
The leader of Fascist Italy during the lead-up to WWII, called "Il Duce."
Benito Mussolini.
This system allowed for American allies to buy military goods from the United States, as long as they paid it paper dollars, and transported the goods themselves.
The Cash & Carry system.
This term means "lightning war" and was a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment.
Blitzkrieg.
German troops occupied this region on the border of Czechoslovakia, as Hitler demanded it be incorporated into the German Reich.
The Sudetenland.
Japanese leader who oversaw the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Hideki Tojo.
This series of acts was designed to keep Americans out of the fighting abroad.
The Neutrality Acts.
This failed uprising by Adolf Hitler in 1923 was called...
The Beer Hall Coup.
After being granted the Sudetenland, Hitler proceeded to break the Munich Pact and take this country.
Czechoslovakia.
Mr. Appeasement himself, resigned in disgrace after becoming unpopular in his country.
Neville Chamberlain.
FDR met with Winston Churchill, the new Prime Minister, off the coast of Canada in 1941. What was this called?
The Atlantic Charter.
These two laws legalized discrimination against Jewish people.
The Nuremberg Laws -
The Reich Citizenship Law
The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor
The final straw for Britain & France, Hitler invaded this large Eastern European country.
Poland.
Oversaw the rapid industrialization of his home country. Eventually allies with Great Britain and the United States.
Joseph Stalin.
This executive order led to creation and imprisonment of people that Americans deemed "threats."
Executive Order 9066. Interned Japanese-Americans, took them away from the costs.