chapter 12 vocab
Across
- 4. the period of political tension following World War II and ending with the fall of Communism in the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s
- 6. Japanese for “divine wind”; a suicide mission in which young Japanese pilots intentionally flew their airplanes into U.S. fighting ships at sea
- 7. German guerrilla force that sought to add the Sudetenland region to Germany
- 9. the process of assembling troops and supplies and making them ready for war
- 11. relating to the elimination or prohibition of weapons, fortifications, and other military installations
- 14. based on a set of beliefs
- 15. the process of satisfying reasonable demands of dissatisfied powers in an effort to maintain peace and stability
- 16. restrictions intended to enforce international law
Down
- 1. a disregard of rules or agreements
- 2. a policy of national isolation by abstention from alliances and other international political and economic relations
- 3. meeting of Germany, Italy, France, and Britain to discuss Germany’s claims to the Sudetenland
- 5. freedom from punishment
- 8. a resistance fighter in World War II
- 10. the British term for the German air raids on British cities and towns during World War II
- 12. relating to people who have common racial, religious, or cultural origins
- 13. German for “lightning war”; a swift and sudden military attack; used by the Germans during World War II