1. The Allies

Riegner warned the allies that Berlin had a plan to exterminate all Jews in countries occupied or controlled by Germany.

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Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union

2. Anschluss

Sound or not, Kennedy became ambassador in 1938, the year that Germany marched into Austria to create the Anschluss.

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the name given to the events in which Hitler's Germany took control of Austria in 1938

3. Appeasement

A lot of Kids try to appease their parents.

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giving in to the demands of an aggressor in order to keep the peace

4. Armistice

Life along the armistice line showcases some of the worst excesses of both sides.

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an agreement to stop fighting

5.Aryans

Mostly all Aryans were in the Nazis. 

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someone from Northern Europe, especially someone with blond hair and blue eyes

6. The Battle of Alamein

The Battle of Alamein went well for the British. 

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In Egypt, the British finally stopped the German advance during the long Battle. They then turned the tables on the Germans, driving the Axis forces back across Libya into Tunisia.

7.Atlantic Charter

The Atlantic Charter was when Roosevelt and Churchill first met.

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Aug. 1941, Roosevelt & Churchill met on a warship in the Atlantic in which the 2 leaders set goals for the war (such as "the final destruction of the Nazi tyranny") and for the postwar world

8. Battle of Midway

Battle of Midway did not go well for Japan.

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June 4-7, 1942 (6 months after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor); The United States discovers Japan's intended trap at the Midway Atoll and instead the U.S. ambushes the Japanese and they suffer heavy losses and never really recover from this counter-attack

9. Battle of Stalingrad

 Battle of Stalingrad was a success for Hitler.

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a major tuning point in the Soviet Union, and one of the costliest of the war; In 1942, Hitler was determined to take Stalin's namesake city & Stalin was equally determined not to let it fall; the Soviets end up encircling their attackers and the Germans finally surrender in Jan. 1943

10.Battle of the Bulge

The Battle of the Bulge was hard for the U.S.

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Dec. 1944 - Jan 1945; Germany launches its last massive counterattack of WWII, and there were great losses on both sides; the U.S. suffers the most casualties here out of all the WWII battles: 19,000 dead: Germany holds off Allied advance for about 6 week but eventually loses their foothold

11.Berlin Blockade/Airlift:

Berlin Blockade/Airlift: was a failure. 

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June 1948 - May 1949, during the Cold War, Stalin tries to completely control Berlin, even though it was occupied and divided by all 4 victorious Allies, by sealing off every railroad and highway into the Western sectors of the city. Western powers responded to the blockade by supplying West Berliners with food and fuel via cargo planes for more than a year - and the Soviets end their blockade but tensions between the countries grows deeper

12. Big Three

The Big Three leaders had a conference. 

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Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin

13. Blitzkrieg

Fueled by atrocity and a blitzkrieg of gains in Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State has enjoyed a meteoric climb to notoriety.

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"lightning war", where Hitler used improved tank & airpower technology to strike a devastating blow against the enemy

14. Cold War

A divorced mother of two, she trained in Ukraine as a gynecologist during the cold war.

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this unfriendly relationship between the US and the Soviet Union after the Second World War

15. D-Day

Garbo emerged from D-day as the greatest double-agent of the war, perhaps of all time.

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June 6, 1944; Allies invade France; 176,000 troops land on the beaches of Normandy

16. The Final Solution

The Final Solution was a horrible solution.

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Adolf Hitler's plan to remove Jewish people from Europe by killing them all

17. Guernica

Guernica got bombed by nazis. 

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a town in the Basque area of northern Spain, which was destroyed by bombs dropped by German aircraft in 1937, during the Spanish Civil War.

18. Haile Selassie

Haile Selassie was a good emperor.

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the emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974, who is remembered especially for having modernized his country

19. Munich Conference

The Munich conference went well for Hitler but not for the Czechs.

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Sept. 1938, British & French persuaded the Czechs to surrender the Sudetenland to Hitler

20. Hiroshima

Hiroshima was a target for the US. 

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a city in Japan which was destroyed in 1945 during World War II, when a U.S. nuclear bomb was dropped on it, killing very many people

21. Kamikaze Pilots

The Kamikaze Pilots were the best pilots.

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Japanese pilots who undertook suicide missions, crashing their explosive-laden airplanes into American warships

22. Reparations 

We rightly condemn the Allied leaders of the 1920s for squeezing Germany so hard on reparations.

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money paid by a defeated country after a war (ex. Germany), for all the deaths, damage etc it has caused

23. Miracle of Dunkirk

The Miracle of Dunkirk was a success. 

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British sent all available naval vessels, merchant ships, and fishing boats across the English Channel and despite German air attacks, the armada ferried more than 300,000 troops to safety in Britain; this heroic rescue raised British morale

24. Nazi-Soviet Pact

 Nazi-Soviet Pact was a good thing for Germany.

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publicly bound Hitler & Stalin to peaceful relations; but secretly the 2 agreed not to fight if the other went to war to divide up Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe between them

25. Nato

Their final goal is to bring NATO bases closer to Russian borders.

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization; a group of countries including the US and several European countries, which give military help to each other

26.Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor was a naval base which got destroyed by Japan.

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an important US naval base in Hawaii, which was suddenly attacked by Japanese planes in December 1941. Many warships were destroyed or damaged, and this caused great shock and anger in the US, and made the US start fighting in World War II.

27. Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis

Rome-Berlin-Tokyo-Axis fought against the Soviet Communism.

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The Axis Powers; the 3 countries agreed to fight Soviet communism, and not to interfere with one another's for territorial expansion

28.Treaty of Versailles (regards to Germany)

Germany broke the Treaty of Versailles.

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a peace agreement made in 1919 at Versailles in France, following the defeat of Germany in World War I, between Germany and the allies (=the countries that fought against Germany in the war, including France, Russia, the UK, and the US). According to the treaty, Germany lost some of its land and had to agree to pay large amounts of money to the allies for damage caused by the war. The treaty also established the League of Nations

29.League of Nations

The League of Nations is good but then bad at the same time.

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an international organization that was established after World War I to encourage countries to work together and achieve international peace. It was replaced in 1946 by the United Nations

30. Total War

In July 1943 the full horror of total war was visited on the German city of Hamburg.

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channeling of a nation's entire resources into a war effort

31. Truman Doctrine

The Truman Doctrine was never meant to be applied to Vietnam.

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United States policy, established in 1947, of trying to contain the spread of communism

32.United Nations

Prior to her appointment in 1997, she served as U.S. representative to the United Nations.

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1st meeting in April 1945, 50 nations met to draft the charter for the UN; each member nation has 1 vote in the General Assembly; a smaller body, the Security Council has greater power and is made up of 5 permanent members: The U.S., Russia, Britain, France, and China; final ratification in Oct. 1945; currently 192 member countries

33.V-E day

The V-E day was when Europe Allies won.

Victory[image] in Europe Day; May 8th 1945, the day on which victory in Europe in World War II was celebrated