Apush Dbq 11 Essay

1. Appeasement—the making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war
2. Axis Powers—in World War II, the nations of Germany, Italy, and Japan, which had formed an alliance in 1936
3. Third Reich—the Third German Empire, established by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s
4. Nonaggression Pact—an agreement in which nations promise not to attack one another
5. Blitzkrieg—“lightning war”—a form of warfare in which surprise attacks with fast-moving airplanes are followed by massive attacks with infantry forces
6. Charles de Gaulle—a French general who went to London to set up a government-in-exile committed to reconquering France
7. Winston Churchill—British prime minister that pledged that Great Britain would never give in to the Nazis
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Battle of Britain—a series of battles between Germany and British air forces, fought over Britain in 1940-1941
9. Atlantic Charter—a declaration of principles issued in August 1941 by British prime minister Winston Churchill and U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt, on which the Allied peace plan at the end of World War II was based
10. Maginot Line—a system of fortifications along France’s border with Germany
11. Phony War—a war when the French were waiting for Germany to attack but they did nothing and the Germans were waiting for the French to attack and they equally did nothing
12. Luftwaffe—German term for “air force”
13. Operation Sea Lion—a plan made by Hitler to knock out the Royal Air Force and then to land 250,000 of his soldiers on England’s shores
14. Erwin Rommel—a general known as the “Desert Fox” sent by Hitler to Libya to command a newly formed tank cops, the Afrika Corps
15. Operation Barbarossa—Hitler’s plan to invade the Soviet Union with the use of tanks and aircraft in June 1941
16. Battle of Stalingrad—a 1942-1943 battle of World War II, in which German forces were defeated in their attempt to capture the city of Stalingrad in the Soviet Union
17. Isoroku Yamamoto--
18. Pearl Harbor—the site in Honolulu, Hawaii, where the Japanese dropped a bomb, causing the U.S. to join World War II
19. Battle of Midway—a 1942 sea and air battle of World War II, in which American forces defeated Japanese forces, fought over Britain in 1940-1941
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Douglas MacArthur—commander of the Allied land forces in the Pacific that believed that storming every Pacific island would be a costly effort, so he came up with island-hopping through Japanese strong points
21. Battle of Guadalcanal—a 194201943 battle of World War II, in which German forces were defeated in their attempt to capture the city of Stalingrad in the Soviet Union
22. Bernard Montgomery—a general from London sent to take control of British forces in North Africa
23. Dwight D. Eisenhower—American general who led Operation Torch, which was when an Allied force landed in Morocco and Algeria to destroy Desert Fox’s Afrika Corps
24. D-Day—June 6, 1944—the day on which the Allies began their invasion of the European mainland during World War II
25. Isolationism—a policy of avoiding political or military involvement with other countries
26. Munich Conference—a 1938 meeting of representatives from Britain, France, Italy, and Germany, at which Britain and France agreed to allow Nazi Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia in return for Adolf Hitler’s pledge to respect Czechoslovakia’s new borders
27. Battle of the Bulge—a 1944-1945 battle in which Allied forces turned back the last major German offensive of World War
II
28. Kamikaze—during World War II, Japanese suicide pilots trained to sink Allied ships by crashing bomb-filled planes into them
29. Nuremberg Trials—a series of court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II, in which Nazi leaders were tried for aggression, violations of the rules of war, and crimes against humanity
30. Demilitarization—a reduction in a country’s ability to wage war, achieved by disbanding its armed forces and prohibiting it from acquiring weapons
31. United Nations—an international peacekeeping organization founded in 1945 to provide security to the nations of the world
32. Manhattan Project—the name for the top-secret project of Americans building an atomic bomb
33. Atomic Bomb—a powerful new weapon at this time that was the quickest possible way for World War II to end; Albert Einstein proposed this idea to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who manufactured it, and detonated it above two cities in Japan
34. Enola Gay—the plane that was used to drop the atomic bomb above Hiroshima
35. Hiroshima—a city in Japan where Americans dropped an atomic bomb, instantly killing many people and injuring people due to the effects
36. Nagasaki—a city in Japan where Americans dropped another atomic bomb, instantly killing many people and injuring people due to the effects; the bombing of Nagasaki was the direct cause of the Japanese to surrender after being attacked the second time, and therefore ended World War II