World War II

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Chapter 8

• World War II
• Vocab

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• 1) Appeasement- Policy of allowing the aggressor
• to do what they want
  in order to
• maintain peace
• 2) Isolationism- A policy of remaining apart from
  the
• affairs or
  interests of other groups
• 3) Munich Conference- Meeting between the major
  powers
• of Europe
  to try to maintain peace
• 4) Third Reich- The Third German Empire
• 5) Nazi-Soviet Pact- Peace agreement between
  Germany and
• the Soviet
  Union

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• 6) Blitzkrieg- German style of fighting during
  World
• War II (lightning
  warfare)
• 7) Neville Chamberlain- Prime Minister of Great
  Britain
• that endorsed the
  policy of appeasement
• 8) Winston Churchill- Prime Minister of Great
  Britain
• during World War II
• 9) Axis Powers- World War II alliance of Germany,
  Italy
• and Japan
• 10) Franklin D. Roosevelt- US President during
  World
• War II

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• 11) Pearl Harbor- Hawaiian naval base attacked by
• Japanese planes that
  brought the US
• into World War II
• 12) Allied Powers- World War II alliance of Great
  Britain,
• Soviet Union and the
  United States
• 13) Holocaust- Systematic mass slaughter of the
  Jewish
• race and other groups
  that were judged
• inferior by the Nazis
• 14) Kristallnacht- Night of Broken Glass in
  which the
• Nazi Party launched a
  violent attack on the
• Jews

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• 15) Ghettos- Segregated Jewish areas
• 16) Genocide- Systematic killing of an Entire
  Race
• 17) Final Solution- Hitlers program to protect
  the racial
• purity of Germany
• 18) Dwight D. Eisenhower- US General during World
• War II
• 19) Battle of Stalingrad- Hitlers failed attempt
  of
• invading the
  Soviet Union

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• 20) D-Day- Invasion by allied forces in Normandy,
  
• France that represented
  the largest land
• and sea attack in history
• 21) Battle of the Bulge- Final push of German
  forces
• against the Allies in
  France
• 22) Battle of Midway- Allied forces versus Japan
  in
• the Pacific Ocean
• 23) Island Hopping- American strategy in the
  Pacific
• that involved American forces going from one
  strategic island to the next until American
  forces were in control and prepared to invade
  Japan

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• 24) Kamikaze- Japanese suicide pilots
• 25) Lend-lease Act- US policy of furnishing the
  Allied
• forces with military supplies
  before the US
• formally entered the War
• 26) Harry Truman- US President that ordered the
• atomic bombings of Japan
• 27) VE Day-Victory in Europe by the Allied Forces
• 28) VJ Day- Victory over Japan by the Allied
  Forces
• 29) Nuremburg trials- Nazi leaders that were
  tried for crimes
• against humanity due to the
  actions of the Holocaust