Ch. 21-22 (#49-60) Flashcards
The workers in Marxism
Proletariat
Stalin’s practice of murdering those who might threaten his power
Purges
Nazi symbol; “broken cross”
Swastika
one-party political system led by a
powerful dictator who typically maintains control by force
Totalitarian States
tightly regulated system of economic controls imposed on Russia by Lenin
War communism
German government after World War I
Weimar Republic
Land and sea
Amphibious
war cry shouted by Japanese troops
Banzai
Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin
Big Three
“lightning war”; fast-moving attack that sought to penetrate enemy lines
Blitzkrieg
the day when an attack is to be launched; June 6, 1944, the day that the Allied forces invaded France
D-Day
organized government massacres in Russia
Pogroms