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WWll Vocab

Published on Nov 24, 2015

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Appeasement
A diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an enemy power in order to avoid conflict

Isolationism
A policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interest of other groups,especially the political affairs of other country's

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Lend-lease act
Was a program Under which the United States provided free oil,food,and material to other countries.

Invasion of Manchuria
Kwangtung army of the Empire of Japan
invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden incident

Invasion of Czechoslovakia many countries invaded the Czechoslovak socialist Republic in order to halt Alexander Dubceks Prague Spring political liberalisation reforms

Invasion of Poland
Hitler broke his promise and went to gain back the territory Poland


battle of Britain
In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle vs. the Nazi Germany Air Force for control of British air space to prevent a Nazi invasion of Britain.

Invasion of Soviet Union
The turning point in the Nazis’ plan to “solve the Jewish problem” began with Operation Barbarossa, the massive military invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, intended to wind up the war by the winter.

Stalingrad

The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for their land

D-day
The U.S. Army remembers June 6, 1944: The World War II D-Day invasion of Normandy, France.

Pearl Harbor
Was when the Japanese bombs Hawaii where the American navil base was

Island Hopping

“Island Hopping” is the phrase given to the strategy employed by the United States to gain military bases and secure the many small islands in the Pacific.

Hiroshima
Was one of the first cities In The world to witness the power of atomic weapons

Nagasaki

It became a center of Portuguese and other European influence in the 16th through 19th centuries

"Final solution"
The Nazis plan to exterminate all the Jewish people