WCII Honors Final Exam STAR TERMS

Munich Agreement

-Sept. 29, 1938

-Munich, Germany

-Britain, France, Germany, Italy

-Hitler received Sudetenland (northwestern border of Czechoslovakia)

-Height of appeasement

Pearl Harbor

-December 7, 1941

-Surprise attack by Japan on the U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor (Hawaii)

-U.S. declared war on Japan so Germany declared war on the U.S.

-U.S. enters WWII

D-Day

-June 6, 1944

-Allied invasion of Normandy (cross channel invasion)

-Led by Dwight D. Eisenhower

-Largest amphibious invasion in history

Beer Hall Putsch

-Nov. 8-9 1923

-Munich, Germany

-Failed violent coup against Bavarian gov. by Nazis

-led by Hitler

-Hitler arrested and jailed (wrote Mein Kampf in prison)

Reichstag Fire

-Feb 27, 1933

-Berlin, Germany

-German parliament building set ablaze

-allegedly set by the Communists (Nazis blamed them)

-used to justify giving Hitler emergency powers (Enabling Act)

Nuremberg Laws

-Sept. 1935

-Nuremberg, Germany

-Anti-Semitic laws promulgated by the Nazis

-stripped Jewish citizenship, banned intermarriage, (and discussed lineage and bloodline)

-excluded Jews socially, politically, and financially in Germany

Kristallnacht

-Nov. 9-10, 1938

-Germany

-Nazis went on a rampage, destroying Jewish businesses, burning synagogues, and hurting/killing Jews

-30k Jewish men were sent to concentration camps

- “night of shattered glass”

First Battle of the Marne

-Sept. 6-10, 1914

-Germans had reached Marne River (20 miles from Paris) but underestimated the British’s ability to mobilize quickly

-Unexpected counterattack by British and French forces stopped German advance

-led to a four-year stalemate + trench warfare

Zimmerman Telegram

-January 1917

-German minister Arthur Zimmerman telegraphs German ambassador in Mexico telling him to offer Mexico the return of lands lost in the 1840s to the US if Mexico supports them against the Americans

-British intelligence intercepts the telegram and reveals it to the US gov.

-US joins WWI on April 6, 1917