World History: Chapter 29 Vocabulary

Policy of giving in to an aggressor's demands in order to keep the peace

Opposition to all war

A series of acts passed by the U.S. from becoming involved in WWII

Group of countries led by Germany, Italy, and Japan that fought the Allies in World War II

A conservative general who led a revolt

Union of Austria and Germany

A region of western Czechoslovakia

Agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939 in which the two nations promised not to fight each other and to divide up land in Eastern Europe

Lightning war

German air force

Port in France from which 300,000 Allied troops were evacuated when their retreat by land was cut off by the German advance in 1940

City in central France where a puppet state governed unoccupied France and the French colonies

Commander who was sent by Hitler to North Africa

Detention center for civilians considered enemies of the state

The systematic genocide of about six million European Jews by the Nazis during World War II

Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1941 that allowed the president (FDR) to sell or lend war supplies to any country whose defense was considered vital to the United States

Popular name for women who worked in war industries during WWII

Ships that accommodate the taking off and landing of airplanes, and transport aircraft

American general who took command of a joint British and American force in Morocco and Algeria

Now Volgograd, a city in SW Russia that was the site of a fierce battle during WWII

Code name for June 6, 1944, the day that Allied forces invaded France during WWII

Meeting between Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin in February 1945 where the three leaders made agreements regarding the end of World War II

Victory in Europe Day, May 8, 1945, the day the Allies won WWII in Europe

During World War II, the forced march of Filipino and American prisoners of war under brutal conditions by the Japanese military

During World War II, Allied strategy of recapturing some Japanese-held islands while bypassing others

General who led American forces north towards Japan.

Japanese pilot who undertook a suicide mission

Code name for the project to build the first atomic bomb during WWII

City in Japan where the first atomic bomb was dropped in August 1945

A coastal city in southern Japan on the island of Kyushu; city in Japan where the second atomic bomb was dropped in August, 1945

Germany city where Hitler staged Nazi rallies in the 1930s, and where Nazi war crimes trials were held after WWII

International organization established after World War II with the goal of maintaining peace and cooperation in the international community

State of tension and hostility between nations aligned with the United State on one side and the Soviet Union on the other that rarely led to direct armed conflict

United States policy, established in 1947, of trying to contain the spread of communism

Massive aid package offered by the U.S. to Europe to help countries rebuild after WWII

A military alliance between several North Atlantic states to safeguard them from the presumed threat of the Soviet Union's communist bloc; countries from other regions later joined the alliance

Mutual-defense alliance between the Soviet Union and seven satellites in Eastern Europe set up in 1955