1. 10.8 World War Two Vocab Frontload
Ms. Ramos
Alta Loma High School

2. Soviet & Germany promise NOT to attack each other
Non-Aggresssion Pact

3. Allows Germany to annex Czech along border- failed appeasement
Munich
Conference

4. Japan invades China’s capital and murders about half of civilians & military
Rape of Nanking

5. Germany wages was at “lightning quick” speed
blitzkrieg

6. Determined Japanese pilots willing to give up their life
kamikaze

7. Big Three meet & agree to open second front in North Africa
Tehran
Conference

8. Big Three meet 1945 to discuss post-war aims/plan
Yalta Conference

9. Unconditional surrender
Surrender without conditions/ stipulations
Unconditional surrender

10. Big Three meet in 1945 –war to end on terms of unconditional surrender
Potsdam
Conference

11. US strategy to take islands over on way to Japan
island hopping

12. US will aid nations facing communist pressue
Truman
Doctrine

13. US gives aid to help rebuild Europe post-WWII
Marshal
Plan

14. 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?).