Appeasement - this is when a nation or a person is willing to give into the demands of an aggressor in order to keep the peace. Western democracies adopted this such as US Britain and French
Blitzkrieg - this is a type of lightning warfare. This is the type of warfare that Hitler�s used during the invasions of Poland during World War II
Cold war - Churchill�s iron curtain became a symbol for the cold war. It expressed to growing fear of communism; Soviets on the east and US on the west (democracy).
Collaborator - These all and any people who helped the Nazis hunt down Jews and or kill them. They would also ship Jews to their death. They were the ones that did what Hitler said
Containment (policy) - This would limit communism to the areas already under soviet control. This was stated by the Truman doctrine.
Genocide - This was considered the only way to get rid of the Jewish problem. This would be the complete destruction of all Jews. This was the destruction of one race or religion
Kamikaze - These were Japanese pilots who took suicide missions. They would fly their planes into their targets. These men who flew into these targets were used during World War II.
Pacifism - these were the people who opposed all wars. This forced governments to seek peace at any cost because these people would refuse to be apart of the war.
Winston Churchill - he was a prime minister. He was the first one to see that Hitler was going to destroy many innocent people and rallied the British troops to help the Jews that were being killed.
Francisco Franco - he was the head of the nationalist force and he lead the nationalist forces in 1936, he led a revolt that touched off a bloody civil war.
Dwight Eisenhower - An American general who took control of a joint Anglo-American force in Morocco and Algeria. He combined with the British armies to trap Rommel�s army.
Haile Selassie - The Ethiopian King who went to the League of Nations for help. This was because Italy invaded them and the league placed sanctions on Italy
Harry Truman - The president of the United States during World War II. He decided to use the atomic bomb on Japan after the war was won in Europe. This bomb was dropped on Hiroshima
Dunkirk - these where 300,000 troops were sent to safety; this act of saving all these troops was known as the miracle of Dunkirk. This help raised the British morale because so many troops were saved.
El Alamein - This was when the British army finally stopped Rommels advances into that land and then forced him to surrender, this was a great point in this battle
Guernica - his is a small Spanish market town that had no military power and during World War II the Germans took this town over because it had no way to protect itself; it was a easy town to take ov
Hiroshima - On August 6, 1945, an American plane dropped an atomic bomb on the midsize city of Hiroshima. This bombing attack killed 70,000 people. However, the number did not end there; many more would die from radiation sickness.
Nagasaki - This is the city where the United States dropped the second atomic bomb in Japan after the Japanese refused to surrender and ignored the warnings. This bombing attack killed more than 40,000 people.
Pearl Harbor - General Tojo Hideki ordered a surprise attack on the American fleet at pear Harbor, Hawaii. The Japanese destroyed 19 ships, smashed American planes on the ground, and killed more than 2,400 people. The president declared that his was �a date which will live in infamy.�
Operation Barbarossa - In Operation Barbarossa, Hitler unleashed a new blitzkrieg. About three million Germans poured into Russia. They caught Stalin unprepared, his army still suffering from the purges that had wiped out many of its top officers.
D-Day - The Allies chose June 6, 1944 and declared it D-day for the invasion of France. About 176,000 Allied troops were ferried across the English Channel. They clawed their way inland through the tangled hedges of Normandy
Battle of Midway - American warships and airplanes severely damaged two Japanese fleets during the battles of the Coal Sea and Midway Island. This weakened the Japanese greatly. After the battle of Midway, the Untied States took offensive
Holocaust - This was Adolph Hitler�s final solution to get rid of the Jewish people. He would send them off to concentration camps and have them work or kill them as soon as they become weak and useless. The outcome of the Holocaust was the death of more than six million innocent Jewish people.
Cold War rivals (which nations) - Conflicting ideologies and mutual distrust divided the former Allies and soon led to the conflict known as the Cold War. The Cold War was a state of tension and hostility among nations without armed conflict between major rivals.
Francisco Franco - In 1936, a right-wing general, Francisco Franco, led a revolt that touched off a bloody civil war. His forces, called Nationalists, rallied conservatives to their banner.
Benito Mussolini - In Italy, Mussolini used his new, modern military to pursue his own imperialist ambitions. He looked first to Ethiopia, in northeastern Africa. Italy�s defeat by the Ethiopians at the battle of Adowa in 1896 still rankled
Adolph Hitler - He was the leader of Germany during the WWII. He was the man that persuaded everyone that Jewish people were bad and that they were the reasons of everything that went on during that time.
Tojo Hideki - He was the general that declared the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Many people nowadays would believe that this was probably the biggest mistake; however, back then it almost seemed possible that the Japanese would have taken over the pacific islands because of the power that they held.
Neville Chamberlin - The British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told cheering crowds that he had achieved �peace for out time.� In the House of Commons, he declared that the Munich Pact had �saved Czechoslovakia from destruction and Europe from Armageddon.�
Franklin Roosevelt - He was the president of the United States of America during the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Unfortunately, he died unexpectedly on April 12. After his term, President Harry Truman took office.
Stalingrad - In 1948, Stalin tried to force the western Allies out of Berlin by sealing off all railroads and highways into the western sectors of the city. The Western powers responded to the blockade by mounting a round-the-clock airlift.
Explain 2 reasons why the US used the atomic bomb against Japan - the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and stayed as a threat to the United States because they were becoming too powerful. United States sent many warnings to the Japanese to surrender, but the Japanese ignored them all. Even after the dropping of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the Japanese still did not surrender. However, finally after the second atomic bomb attack, Japan had no other choice but to surrender.