History

Munich Conference

1938 conference where Britain, France, and Italy gave over the Sudetenland to germany in exchange for promise that they wouldnt expand territory any further

Neutrality acts

4 laws passed in the late 1930s that were designed to keep the US out of war. Important becuase it kept us out of foreign disagreements.

Dictator

A ruler who has complete power over a country

Appeasement

Accepting demands in order to avoid conflict. Important becuase often hitler and the nazis used this to make things go in their favor.

Axis powers

Germany, Italy, Japan

Allied powers

Great Britain, France, Russia, later US

Operation Overlord (D-Day)

June 6, 1944. Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy. Almost 9,000 were injured or dead and the allies broke German defenses.

Holocaust

Methodical genocide of mainly jews between 1933-1945 ,along with others by hitler and the nazis. 6 millions jews were killed

Manhattan project

This was the development and research of nuclear weapons. This was important becuase these creations led to the end of ww2.

Potsdamn Declaration

Ultimatum issued by the US, Great Britain, and china demanding Japan surrender. Important becuase it resulted in Germany being demilitarized, losing territory, and lost arms.

Nazi soviet pact

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

Lend lease act

allowed sales of war materials to any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the U.S. important because it broight the US closer to entering the war

Totalitarian state

country where a single party controls the government and every aspect of the lives of the people

Bataan Death March

forcible transfer by the Japan Army of between 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war

Collective farming

many small farms combined into one under government control