Unit 6 - Vocabulary Review - MWH

A military conflict thought by some scholars to be the true start of World War II.

• Second Sino-Japanese War

• First Sino-Japanese War

• The Mukden Incident

• The Boxer Rebellion

Satisfying reasonable demands of dissatisfied powers in an effort to maintain peace and stability.

• Appeasement

• Scapegoating

• Ethnic Cleansing

• Complacency

“Living space”. Territory that a state or nation believes is needed for its natural development, especially associated with Nazi Germany.

• Lebensraum

• Blitzkrieg

• Luftwaffe

• Rhineland

An episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against Chinese people during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

• Rape of Nanjing

• The Holocaust

• The Opium Wars

• The Meiji Restoration

A genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered some six million European Jews, around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe, between 1941 and 1945.

• The Holocaust

• The Rape of Nanjing

• Ethnic Cleansing of Germany

• The Armenian Genocide

The Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews.

• The Final Solution

• The Wannsee Conference

• Kristallnacht

• Occupation

German for “lightning war”; a swift and sudden military attack; used by the Germans during World War II.

• Occupation

• Blitzkrieg

• Luftwaffe

• Battle for Britain

A military campaign of World War II, in which the Royal Air Force defended Great Britain against attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe.

• The Battle for Britain

• The Rape of Nanjing

• The Mukden Incident

• The Potsdam Conference

A series of military trials, held by the Allied Powers under international law after World War II.

• Nuremberg War Crimes Trials

• The German Treaty Protocols

• Geneva Convention Trials

• The Treaty of Versailles of 1945

A research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada.

• Manhattan Project

• Oppenheimer Project

• Arms Race

• Project Atom