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Neville Chamberlin

British prime minister who appeased Hitler with the Munich Pact - "We have peace in our time"

Mein Kampf

Hitler's book called "My Struggle" - bible for Nazis

Dunkirk

coast of France, British and French troops were pushed back by Germans, later rescued with little boats

Wendall Wilkie

ran against FDR in 1940, Republican - lost by a landslide, opposed New Deal but had same foreign policy

Phillipines

US territory, in 1934 Tydings-McDuffie Act: said we would give them their independence in 12 years (1946)

Chaing Kai Shek

Chinese dictator, friend of US

Hideki Tojo

military leader of Japan and prime minister, convinced the emperor to attack the US Navy

Billy Mitchell

America's first ACE, tried to convince army to build more war planes (told them air power was new submarine warfare), dropped bombs on empty warship

Premier Daladier

French prime minister, appeased Hitler at Munich Pact by dismembering Czech and giving him Sudetenland

Good Neighbor Policy

FDR's Latin Am. policy: we kept out of Latin Am. and let them handle their problems, had a positive effect in relations with Western Hemisphere

Benito Mussolini

1st Fascist, allied with Hitler, would lead Italy to invade Ethiopia and Albania

Sudetenland

region of Czechoslovakia that the allies gave to Hitler

Winston Churchill

British prime minister after Chamberlin, prime minister during war: helped lead Britain through its darkest hour, says "We will never surrender"

Fascism

Mussolini/Hitler far-right, authoritarian, extreme nationalism ultranationalist political ideology characterized by a single-party state led by a charismatic leader, the suppression of opposition, and the subordination of the individual to the state

Adolf Hitler

German, fascist dictator, took Western European powers, used propaganda

FDR

3rd term president of US, created Good Neighbor Policy

Panay

sunk by Japanese in China on the Yangtze River

neutrality acts

staying out of war (neutral): prevented US from sending arms to nations at war

Pearl Harbor

Dec. 7, 1941 - "Date which will live on in infamy" - 70/2400 civilians died, 2 fleets of 191 and 170 planes attacked, Japanese diplomats pretended to talk peace at the White House, greatest military disaster in history, US then declared war on Japan and then Germany and Italy declare war on the US

Lend-Lease Act

lend or lease supplies to the British for later payment (others benefit: Russia and China), US ships would deliver supplies to Britain and became targets

Munich Pact

agreement between Hitler, Chamberlin, Mussolini, and Daladier to give Hitler the Sudetenland (German generals planning to remove Hitler at this time)

Rhineland

border between France and Germany where no German troops can be put, in 1936 Hitler sends troops

Blitzkrieg

lightening warfare, Germany used it on Poland, France, Belgium, and Russia

isolationism

policy during the 20s and 30s - America doesn't want to get involved in others problems; "Never again" after WWI

Germany, Italy, Japan

Axis Powers

appeasement used by the Allies preceding WWI and its effects

used when Chamberlin & Premier Daladier met with Hitler & Mussolini in Munich (Sept. 1938), gave Hitler Sudetenland; used again during sinking of Panay and Tydings-McDuffie Act

appeasement

foreign policy of pacifying an aggrieved country through negotiations in order to prevent war

rise of Hitler

the (previous) German Democratic Gov. was weak and divided in 2 parties, economy was in turmoil, millions of unemployed, goods were scare, depression left Germany: leaderless, hungry, and hopeless; all he needed was a plurality

Charles Darwin antisemitism

believed Aryan race was superior, the way different races developed provided evidence for racial inequality - unequal races locked in a struggle for existence, believed way for Aryans to triumph would be to procreate more efficiently and gain more "living space", formed backdrop of eugenics, Aryans wanted to remove certain traits (Jewish) so they could be "pure" Aryan race

Nationalist Socialists Germans Worker's Party (NSDAP)

NAZI abbreviation for