Chapter 16

An agreement in which nations promise not to attack one another

"lightning war" - a form of warfare in which surprise attacks with fast-moving airplanes are followed by massive attacks with infantry forces

A series of battles between German and British air forces, fought over Britain in 1940-1941

A declaration of principles issued in August 1941 by British prime minister Winston Churchill and US president Franklin Roosevelt, on which the Allied peace plan at the end of WWII was based

To the Nazis, the Germanic peoples who formed a "master race"

A mass slaughter of Jews and other civilians, carried out by the Nazi government of Germany of Vienna

"Night of Broken Glass" - the night of November 9, 1938, on which Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, buisnesses, and synagogues throughout Germany

City neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live

Hitler's program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people

The systematic killing of an entire people

June 6, 1944 - the day on which the Allies began their invasion of the European mainland during WWII

During WWII Japanese suicide pilots trained to sink Allied ships by crashing bomb-filled planes into them

A series of court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany, after WWII, in which Nazi leaders were tried for aggresion, violations of the rules of war, and crimes against humanity

A reduction in a country's ability to wage war, acheived by disbanding its armed forces and prohibiting it from acquiring weapons

The process of creating a government elected by the people

Turned the tide in the war in the Pacific against Japan

The Soviet Union signed a nonaggression pact with this country in 1939

Allied strategy of attacking islands closer to Japan and not well-defended

Attack here caused this day to be described as "a date which will live in infamy"

Both of these were technological advantages for the British in fighting the Battle of Britain

Hitler invaded Poland to regain this strip of land which gave Germany access to the Baltic Sea at Danzig

Leader of the French Government in exile and the Free French

The final German offensive in the war

Masterminded the Japanese naval strategy in WWII

The two Japanese cities on which the atomic bomb was dropped

Under the postwar constitution of Japan, this head of government was selected by the diet

Great Britain and France entered the war when Germany invaded this country

Ordered the use of the Atomic Bomb against Japan to bring the war to the quickest possible end

Because they were falsely labeled as enemies, many Japanese were relocated here

Russian troops and the Russian winter led to Germany's defeat here

Allied prisoners of war were forced by the Japanese on this terrible hike of 50 miles