unit 8 vocab
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Started: 1939
Ended: 1945
World War IIBy: Grant Hall
Hitler’s Beginning
✤ Lebensraum is the territory that a state or nation believes is needed for its natural development, esp. associated with Nazi Germany
✤ Anschluss was the political union-ship between Austria and Germany
✤ The invasion of Poland started WW2
Hitler-Stalin Pact
✤ Signed August 23, 1939
✤ It was non-aggression pact, that said that Germany and Russia would not bother each other
✤ Germany would break the pact and end up invading Russia anyhow
Appeasement
✤ the policy of making concessions to the dictatorial powers in order to avoid conflict
✤ Germany, UK, Italy, and France signed an appeasement that Germany could have Sudetenland as long as they didn’t invade anywhere else
✤ "We have peace in our time" -Neville Chamberlain
The Axis Powers
✤ Germany
✤ Japan
✤ Italy
The Allies
✤ Soviet Union
✤ United Kingdom
✤ United States of America
✤ China
✤ France
✤ Netherlands
✤ Belgium
Blitzkrieg
✤ Blitzkrieg was an intense military campaign used by the Germans which was intended to bring about a swift victory
✤ Luftwaffe was the German Air Force