raise more food for home consumption
French General who fled to England where he set up a government in exile.
Charles de Gaulle
United States general who served as chief of staff and commanded Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II
Douglas MacArthur
made decision to use atomic bomb
giving up principles to pacify an aggressor
appeasement
U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in June 1942, in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers. It marked a turning point in World War II.
Battle of Midway
annexed Austria, Czechoslovakia, attacked Poland, Norway, Denmark, France, and Great Britain
Germany
WWII strategy of conquering only certain Pacific islands that were important to the Allied advance toward Japan
Island Hopping
Chamberlain's political rival in GB, later became prime minister, said that by signing the Munich Agreement, they adopted a shameful policy of appeasement.
Winston Churchill
the British Prime Minister, who met with Hitler in Munich; and believed the annexation of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia
Neville Chamberlain
a fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War II
Kamikaze
signed by Stalin and Hitler in 1939
- agreed not to attack each other and divided up Poland
Nonagression pact
journalist and historian who made radio broadcasts from Berlin at the beginning of WW II
William Shirer