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