WWII vocab
The act of giving in to unjust demands in order to avoid an all-out conflict.
What is appeasement?
Barrier or line dividing Western and Easter Europe.
What is the iron curtain?
Countries making up the Axis Powers.
Who are Germany, Italy, and Japan?
International peace organization.
What is the United Nations?
What is Fascism?
Nations politically and economically dominated or controlled by another more powerful country.
What are satellite nations?
The name of the secret project in charge of designing the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This country launched the first satellite into space.
Who is the Soviet Union?
Type of warfare consisting of the use of massive tanks and waves of aircraft and paratroopers to break through enemy lines.
What is blitzkrieg?
Policy used by the U.S. to help prevent the spread of communism throughout the world.
What is the Policy of Containment?
The creation of this was established at the 1938 Evian Conference.
What is the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees?
By helping these countries, the U.S. saw its first real test of containment.
Who are Greece and Turkey?
Agreement that committed the postwar world to democracy, nonaggression, and free trade.
What is the Atlantic Charter?
Pledged the U.S. to fight the spread of communism worldwide and aid those who worked to resist being controlled by others.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
Agreement between the Soviet Union and Germany.
What is the non-aggression pact?
What is the Yalta Conference?
Requirement that all countries buy products from the United States using this method.
What is cash-and-carry?
Authorized the use of military force whenever the president thought it necessary to assist those resisting Communist aggression.
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?
In this battle, Germany suffered significant losses and the Allies were able to enter the country with little resistance.
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
Tensions increased between the United States and the Soviet Union because disagreements had at this conference.
What is the Potsdam Conference?