CAUSES
Satisfying demands of a person or country in order to maintain peace
What is Appeasement
During this battle, Germany bombarded military, then civilian targets for almost a year in this Ally's country
What is the Battle of Britain
US' strategy in the Pacific Theater; taking strategic locations, making their way closer to Japan, often experiencing higher casualty rates as they got closer
What is Island Hopping
The US's dropping of atomic bombs on these two cities ended the war in the Pacific and ultimately WWII
What is Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Lightning War
What is Blitzkrieg
A broad term; a government that aims to control the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural lives of its citizens
What is a totalitarian state
The invasion of this country officially began WWII in Europe
What is Poland
Kamikaze
What are Japanese aircrafts and pilots who would deliberately crash into enemy targets
Three leaders involved in Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam conferences (1 from each country)
Who are FDR/Truman, Stalin, Churchill/ Attlee
The deliberate mass murder or physical extinction of a particular racial, political, or cultural group (NOT holocaust)
What is Genocide
Two causes of WWII
What is Germany's anger at the unfairness of the Treaty of Versailles, rise of Totalitarian States, Germany's military aggression, Great Depression wrecking countries' economies.
Three members of the Allies and Three members of the Axis
What is Allies: US, GB, and Soviet union;
Axis: Japan, Germany, Italy
Two reasons for Midway as turning point in Pacific
What is refueling station, jumping off point, closer to Japan than Hawaii was, first major US victory, Japanese navy severely weakened with lose of 4 aircraft carriers
Significance of the Battle of Berlin
What is the end of the war in Europe
German airforce
What is the Luftwaffe
Type of fascism, where race is above everything, even the state.
What is Nazism
Dunkirk significance
What is forced all Allies off the European continent, and allowed Germany to eventually conquer most of Western and Central Europe; rescue mission
'...a date which will live in infamy'
December 7th 1941
US President who decided to drop the atomic bombs on Japan
Who is Truman
First major defeat for the Germans, their entire 6th army was lost, turning point in the European Theater
What is Stalingrad
After this conference, peace was believed to have been secured, but really, countries were only appeasing Hitler
What is the Munich Conference
D-Day significance
Allowed US, GB, and Canada back onto the continent after invading the beaches at Normandy, France; able to liberate France and push the Germans back to Germany on the Western Front
The name of the Code making device that was eventually broken, allowing for the success at Midway
What is the Enigma Machine
Two consequences/decisions of the Big Three's Conferences (ANY)
Divide Germany and Berlin into 4 zones after war, trials for war criminal, Cold War, D Day organized, Soviets approach from east on Germany decided, UN created
Leader of fascist Italy; used secret police and controlled media (propaganda) to keep his power
Who is Benito Mussolini