Transcript Russian Revolution Academic Vocab Frontload

10.8 World War Two
Vocab Frontload
Ms. Ramos
Alta Loma High School
Soviet &
Germany
promise NOT
to attack each
Nonother
Aggresssion
Pact
Allows Germany to
annex Czech along
border- failed
appeasement
Munich
Conference
Japan invades
China’s capital and
murders about half
of civilians &
military
Rape of
Nanking
Germany wages
was at “lightning
quick” speed
blitzkrieg
Determined
Japanese pilots
willing to give up
their life
kamikaze
Big Three meet &
agree to open
second front in
North Africa
Tehran
Conference
Big Three meet
1945 to discuss
post-war
aims/plan
Yalta
Conference
Surrender without
conditions/
stipulations
Unconditional
surrender
Big Three meet in
1945 –war to end
on terms of
unconditional
surrender
Potsdam
Conference
US strategy
to take islands
over on way to
Japan
island
hopping
US will aid nations
facing communist
pressue
Truman
Doctrine
US gives aid to
help rebuild
Europe postWWII
Marshal
Plan
Identify turning points in WWII and
explain how they changed the course of
the war.(10.8.3)
• 2:
– Identify 2 turning points in WWII
– Identify which country acted, what they accomplished and
where for EACH turning point.
• 3:
– Describe 1 turning point in the European Theater of WWII
including which country acted, what they accomplished and
where with some specific details (people, places, dates etc.)
– Describe 1 turning point in the Pacific Theater of WWII
including which country acted, what they accomplished and
where with some specific details (people, places, dates etc.)
– EXPLAIN why this event was a turning point in the war (what
did it change?).