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AP European
Chapter 29
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9th Grade
04/19/2009

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Anschluss
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the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938
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Anti-Comintern Pact
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Between Hitler and Japan; offered security against Russia
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Atlantic Charter
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August 1941; called for peace without territorial expansion or secret agreements, and for free elections, and self determination for all liberated nations
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Casablance Conference
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Resolved to accept nothing less than uncoditional surrender of Axis powers
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Neville Chamberlain
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1938; guilible British Prime Minister; declared that Britain and France would fight if Hitler attacked Poland
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Winston Churchill
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1874 to 1965; greatest wartime leader; rallied the British with his speeches, infectious confidence and bulldog determination; known for his "iron curtain" speech; led the British during WWI; agreed Hitler should be conquered; was thrown out by his own people
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D-Day
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June 6, 1944; Americans and British forces under General Dwight Eisenhower landed on the beaches of Normandy; this was history's greatest naval invasion
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Battle of Stalingrad
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Turning point for Germany in the war
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Edouard Daladier
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French leader of the radical socialists; accepted Hitler's terms for peace
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Frascisco Franco
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Spanish General; organized the revolt in Morocco which led to the Spanish Civil War. Leader of the Nationalists - right wing, supported by Hitler and Mussolini, won the Civil War after three years of fighting
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Lebensaum
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Room to move. Phrase used by Hitler to justify invasion of other countries
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Lend - Lease Program
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In 1941, the US lent money and resources to the European states to help reconstruction
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Maginot Line
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Line of defense built by France to protect against German invasion. Stretched from Belgium to Switzerland
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Munich Conference
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1938; Chamberlain, France and other countries (not the USSR); they agreed that Sudentenland should be ceded to Germany; Chamberlain secured peace with Germany
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Pacificism
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Anabaptists laid great stress on this; they would not run for office or serve in the armed forces; not being involved in many wars
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Potsdam Conference
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Brought forward many differences over east Europe; postwar conference in July of 1945; Stalin would not allow any type of freely elected government in east Euorpean countries; Roosevelt had died and was succeeded by Henry Truman, who demanded free elections
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Rome-Berlin Axis
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1936; close cooperation between Italy and Germany, and soon Japan joined; resulted from Hitler; who had supported Ethiopia and Italy, he overcame Mussolini's lingering about the Nazis
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Erwin Rommel
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"Desert Fox" May 1942; German and Italian armies were led by him and attacked British occupied Egypt and the Suez Canal for the second time; were defeated at the Battle of El Alamein; was moved to France to oversee the defenses before D-Day; tried to assassinate Hitler
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Russo-German Nonaggresion Pact
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Hitler and Stalin promise to remain neutral if either country were to become involved in the war; August 1939. Was supposed to last 10 years, but Hitler invaded Russia in 1941
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Joseph Stalin
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Communist statesman; leader of Bolshevik Party; become ruler of USSR after Lenin; assumed full military and political leadership
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Sudentenland
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Hitler wanted German speaking people in West Czechl this would be given to Germany
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Teheran Conference
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Meeting in 1943; Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill; cofirmed their defense to crush Hitler
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Yalta Conference
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On the Black Sea; the Big Three met in Febuary 1945 in southern Russia; it was agreed that Germany would be divided into zones of occupation and would pay heavy reparations to the Soviet Union in the form of agricultual and industrial goods; when the Big Three met in 1945 at Yalta in southern Russia they agreed that east European governments were to be freely elected but pro-Soviet
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Konrad Adenauer
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Chancellor of Germany in 1949; the former mayor of Cologne and a long-time anti-Nazi, who began his long highly successful democratic rule; West Germany had a majority of Christian Democrats; helped regain respect for Germany
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