HISTORY 40C Chapter Notes - Chapter 23: Nazi Concentration Camps, Yalta Conference, Atlantic Charter
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20th century us history: world war 2. There were multiple causes of world war 2, but the great depression was perhaps the most signi cant: munich agreement-1938 treaty in which the leading powers of western europe allowed hitler to annex strategies areas of. Czechoslovakia in order to satisfy his territorial aspirations: nonaggression pact- 1939 agreement between stalin and hitler that divided poland between germany and the soviet union and said two nations would not attack each other. Americans rst tried to stay out of the warm but this became less feasible as hitler"s aggression continued. Good neighbor policy- american strategy of renouncing military interception in latin american affairs: germany fights. Holocaust- systematic killing of 11 million jews, gypsies and other societal scapegoats in nazi concentration camps all over. Four freedoms: basic human rights articulated by fdr to ensure that america;s involvement in world war 2 was seen as ideologically sound,