The peace settlement signed after World War 1
The Treaty of Versailles
War Guilt Cause
Term of the Treaty of Versailles which forced Germany to accept full
responsibility for World War 1
Compensation paid by Germany to the Allies
for all the damage done during the war
Reparations
Anschluss Union of Germany
and Austria (banned by the Treaty of
Versailles)
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German air force
Luftwaffe
Maginot Line French defence line of fortifications along its borders with Germany
An agreement between Italy and the Pope which recognized the Vatican as an independent state
The Lateran Treaty
OVRA Organization for
Vigilance and Repression of Antifascism
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Title used by Mussolini which means leader
Il Duce
The Pact of Steel
The military alliance that Hitler and
Mussolini signed in 1938
British rescue mission of Abyssinia
The Abyssinia Campaign
Appeasement
Policy of British and French leaders of giving in to Hitler’s demands in
order to avoid war
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After the Nazi invasion of Poland, no major Allied or
German military operations took place for 8 months
The Phoney War
D-Day The day Allied forces
landed in Normandy in France on June 6th,
1944
They were blamed for agreeing to Germany’s
surrender in November 1918
November Criminals
The SS Hitler’s personal bodyguard
unit who were later responsible for running concentration camps
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The portion of France left under the control
of the French government
Vichy France
League of Nations
Set up to prevent another war and to settle
disputes between countries peacefully
Law that allowed the party with the largest votes to get 2/3 of the
seats in Parliament
Acerbo Law
Blackshirts Name given to
Mussolini’s Fascist followers or to
Hitler’s SS
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German troops that
operated in North Africa under General
Rommel
Afrika Corps
Rome-Berlin Axis
Agreement signed by Mussolini and Hitler over Austria.
Mussolini permitted German annexation of Austria if
Germany did not claim South Tyrol
Nazi policy of living space, to use Eastern Europe and
Russia to provide raw materials and workers for
the Nazis
Lebensraum
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Signed by Germany and the Soviet Union, they agreed
to a 10 year non-aggression pact and to secretly divide
Poland between them
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British and French troops evacuated
to England
Dunkirk
Lend-Lease USA provides
Britain with military materials
Russian war tactics during World War 2 to burn crops,
destroy bridges an towns as they retreated before the
Germans
Scorched Earth Policy
U-Boat German
submarine
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Marked the end of Germany’s advances into Eastern Europe
and Russia
Battle of Stalingrad
Condor Legion
Unit of the German air
force
Treaty signed after the war between Germany
and the victorious Allies
Treaty of Versailles
Munich Conference
Where Hitler and other European leaders forced
Czechoslovakia to surrender Sudetenland
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Ineffective League established after WWI to prevent
further war
League of Nations
The Polish Corridor
'Corridor' separating East Prussia from
Germany
The Japanese attacked this fleet in Pearl Harbour, bringing America into WWII
The US Pacific Fleet
1939 Year Hitler
invaded Poland
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German war tactics
Blitzkrieg
1940 Year Hitler invaded France
Hitler's plan to invade Britain
Operation Sea Lion
The Battle of Britain
Battle between German and
British Air forces
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Britain's Royal Air Force
RAF
The Blitz German
bombing of British cities
British defeat of German forces in Egypt, marking a turning point in the war
El Almein
Operation Barbarossa
The German invasion of
Russia
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When German U-Boats tried attacking
US supplies to the Allies
Battle of the Atlantic
Operation Overlord
Operation of the Allied invasion of
the continent
German resistance to Allied invasion
near the end of the war
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Midway
Japanese navy defeat by American navy in the Pacific
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The Americans dropped atomic bombs on
Hiroshima to make Japan surrender
Hiroshima
15/08/1945 VJ-Day
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