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Appeasement

policy of giving in to an aggressor’s demands in order to keep the peace

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pacifism

opposition to all war

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Neutrality Acts

a series of acts passed by the U.S. Congress from 1935 to 1939 that aimed to keep the U.S. from becoming involved in WWII

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Axis powers

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

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Third Reich

official name of the Nazi party for its regime in Germany; held power from 1933 to 1945

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Anschluss

union of Austria and Germany

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Sudetenland

a region of western Czechoslovakia

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League of Nations

Organization that was created at the end of WW1 that was to keep peace throughout the world

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Haile Selassie

King of Ethiopia when Italy invaded them in 1935

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Sanctions

A series of punishments against a particular country for some sort of violations

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Adolf Hitler

Leader of Germany during WW2

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Allied Powers

group of countries led by Britain, france, and Russia who fought together during WW2

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Benito Mussolini

Leader of italy during WW2

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Third Reich

All the German speaking people under the leadership of Adolf Hitler

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Munich Pact

An agreement between France and Britain and German that gave Germany the Sudetenland land in return for peace

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Edour Deladier

Leader of France during WW2

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Winston Churchill

Leader of Great Britain during WW2

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Joseph Stalin

Leader of Russia during WW2

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Operation Sea Lion

Name of Germany’s invasion of Great Britain

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Erwin Rommel

General of the German Army that invaded North Africa. He was nicknamed the “Desert Fox.”

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Operation Barbarossa

The name of the German Invasion of Russia

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The American president during the beginning years of WW2

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Atlantic Charter

Meeting between Churchill and Roosevelt that set goals for the war

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Hideki Tojo

Prime minister of Japan when they invaded Pearl Harbor

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Pearl Harbor

Japanese invasion of the United States on the island of Hawaii

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Annexed

add a territory to an existing state or country

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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

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blitzkrieg

lightning war

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Luftwaffe

German air force

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Dunkirk

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

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Vichy

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

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Lend-Lease Act

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

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