US History Ch 26 Sec 4
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- appeasement
- giving into an aggresor to avoid conflict
- nonaggression pact
- between Hitlter and 'Stalin said they wouldn't attack each other and to divide Poland
- Axis Powers
- Italy, Germany, and later Japan 1936
- Munich Conference
- Britain, France,Germany, and Italy. Germany was given the Sudetenland in exchange for Hitler's promise to make no more claims on European territory
- Allied Powers
- Britain France later the US and other countries
- Winston Churchill
- a great politician of 'Britain who feared that appeasement would encourage Hitler to seize additional territory
- Lend Lease Act
- law that allowed the US to offer weapons and other war supplies to the Alled Powers to fight against the Axis Powers
- Blitzkrieg
- lightning war type of fast moving wafare used by Germany
- Maginot Line
- line of defenses built by France along its border w/ Germany after WWI
- Atlantic Charter
- pledge made by Roosevelt and Churchill not to aquire new territory as a result of WWII and to work for peace after the war
- Hideki Tojo
- prime minister of Japan