World History - Chapter 32

a 1942 sea and air battle of World War II, in which American forces defeated Japanese forces in the central Pacific

• Battle of Stalingrad

• Battle of Midway

• Battle of the Bulge

• Battle of Guadalcanal

to the Nazis, the Germanic peoples who formed a “master race”

• Final Solution

• Nuremberg Trials

• Holocaust

• Aryan

an agreement in which nations promise not to attack one another

• nonaggression pact

• Atlantic Charter

• democratization

• Nuremberg Trials

the night of November 9, 1938, on which Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues throughout Germany

• D-Day

• Final Solution

• Kristallnacht

• blitzkreig

city neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live

• kamikaze

• Holocaust

• genocide

• ghetto

a reduction in a country’s ability to wage war; achieved by disbanding its armed forces and prohibiting it from acquiring weapons

• demilitarization

• genocide

• Final Solution

• Holocaust

a mass slaughter of Jews and other civilians, carried out by the Nazi government of Germany before and during World War II

• Final Solution

• genocide

• Holocaust

• Kristallnacht

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

• Battle of Midway

• Battle of Guadalcanal

• Battle of Britain

• Battle of Stalingrad

declaration of principles issued in August 1941 by British prime minister Winston Churchill and U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt, on which the Allied peace plan at the end of World War II was based

• Battle of Midway

• Battle of Guadalcanal

• Battle of the Bulge

• Atlantic Charter

a 1942-1943 battle of World War II, in which Allied troops drove Japanese forces from the Pacific island of Guadalcanal

• Battle of the Bulge

• Battle of Britain

• Battle of Guadalcanal

• Battle of Stalingrad