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Maginot Line

A fortification built before World War II to protect France's eastern border.

Winston Churchill

A noted British statesman who led Britain throughout most of World War II and along with Roosevelt planned many allied campaigns.

Battle of Britain

An aerial battle fought in World War II in 1940 between the German Luftwaffe (air force), which carried out extensive bombing in Britain, and the British Royal Air Force, which offered successful resistance.

Lebensraum

The concept of German expansionism Hitler argued his people needed. Literally means, living space.

Rhineland

The territory that Hitler remilitarized in 1936 in total violation of the Treaty of Versailles.

Neville chamberlain

The foolhardy Prime Minister of England who returned from the Munich Conference with Hitler and Mussolini, confident he'd been successful in avoiding another bloody war.

Sudetenland

The area around the northwestern part of Czechoslovakia that Hitler demanded be included in the Munich Agreement.

Anschluss

Union of Austria and Germany

Appeasement

A policy of making concessions to an aggressor in the hopes of avoiding war.

Blitzkrieg

"Lighting war." Type of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland in 1939.

The Molotov Ribbentrop Pact

Name for the secret agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union that called for dividing up territory in Eastern Europe.