Unit5chp1 History vicab

Facism

A political system headed ny a director in which the government controls the business and labor and opposition is not permitted

Benito Mussolini

A former newspaper editor and facist leader who seized power in italy in 1922

Tojo Hideki

A militarist who was prime minister of japan during most if the pacific portion of world war 2

Adoplh Hitler

Gained power in germany in 1933 he labeled his new government the “Third Reich” and said that it would last a thousand years

Munich agreemenr

Treaty between great britain, france, and germany that allowed hitler to invade the sudentenland and keep the ither territories as long as he disnt touch poland

nonagression treaty

This supposedly would guarater peace between germany and the soviet union

Axis Powers

A military alliance during ww2 between germany, italy, and japan

Grnad alliance

A world war 2 alliance between the US, great britain and the soviet union

Holocaust

The genocide of European jews during ww2 resulting in the deaths of 6 millions jews

Battle of pearl harbor

Japanese launched surprise attack damaging over a dozen naval vessels

Internment

Policy of moving US citizens of foreign descents into camps to prevent espionage

Battle of midway

Foughr mostly in aircrafts, turning point of war in the pacific

Battle of d-day

Invasion of normandy, largest amphibious invasion in military history

Battle of the bulge

Largest american battle, last german offensive on the western front

Battle of stalingrad

Major battle on the eastern front, considered the turning point of the war in europe

Douglass mcarthur

Commander of US forces in the pacific, escaped the phillipines

Hiroshima

Japanese city where the first atomic bomb was dropped

Winston churchill

Prime minister of Great Britain during WW2

Appeasement

Act of giving opposing side an arguemenr or advantage they requested in order to prevent further disagreement

Battle of Iwo Jima

First japanese home island to be targeted by US Forces