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Anschluss

Union of Austria and Germany

Munich Agreement

Agreement between Chamberlain and Hitler that Germany would not conquer any more land, and if did, would declare war

Rome-Berlin Axis

the alliance between Italy and Germany (Mussolini and Hitler)

Axis Powers

Germany, Italy, Japan

Reichstag

German Parliament

Third Reich

The Third German Empire, established by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s

Mein Kampf

My Struggle' by Hitler, later became the basic book of Nazi goals and ideology, reflected obsession

Anti-Semitism

Prejudice against Jews

Appeasement

Accepting demands in order to avoid conflict

Pearl Harbor

Base in Hawaii that was bombed by japan on December 7, 1941, which entered America to enter the war

Island-hopping

A military strategy used during World War II that involved selectively attacking specific enemy-held islands and bypassing others

D-Day

Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944

VE Day

May 8, 1945; victory in Europe Day when the Germans surrendered

Hiroshima/Nagasaki

City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II. Japanese city in which the second atomic bomb was dropped (August 9, 1945).

VJ Day

Victory over Japan day" is the celebration of the Surrender of Japan, which was initially announced on August 15, 1945

Nonaggression Pact

An agreement in which nations promise not to attack one another

Atlantic Charter

1941-Pledge signed by US president FDR and British prime minister Winston Churchill not to acquire new territory as a result of WWII and to work for peace after the war

Winston Churchill

A noted British statesman who led Britain throughout most of World War II and along with Roosevelt planned many allied campaigns. He predicted an iron curtain that would separate Communist Europe from the rest of the West.

Blitzkrieg

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

Genocide

Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group