Ch.12 World War 2 Flashcards
Dictator
Leaders who control their nations by force
Totalitarian
Leaders crush all opposition and try to total control all areas of society
Fascism
Government characterized by militarism and racism
Appeasement
Avoiding war by accepting demand
Anti-semitism
Hatred of Jews
Benito Mussolini
Italian dictator who won power by saying that Italy won little in the treaty of Versailles
Joseph Stalin
Was a murderous communist leader of the Soviet Union
Munich conference
British and French leaders agreed to give Sudetenland to Germany if they halted expansion
Adolf Hitler
Was the leader of the Nazi party who practiced anti-semitism
Rhineland
The treaty of Versailles had made it a neutral area
Austria
Hitler insisted that German speaking Austria should be united with Germany
Sudetenland
Hotter claimed that they were being mistreated so they should be part of Germany
Invasion of Poland
Germany attacked Poland swiftly with bombs and machine guns also they had thousands of soldiers
American Neutrality
When Roosevelt won he openly supported the allies and lend-lease act to lend weapons to the allies
Blizkrieg
Lightning war
Allied powers
Great Britain and France
Axis powers
Germany,Italy, and Japan
Winston Churchill
Helped boost moral during the Battle of Britain
Pearl Harbor
When Japan attacked the Hawaiian military base
Battle of Britain
When Germany bombed Britain for 8 months
Interment camps
After Pearl Harbor Japanese-Americans were moved to harsh, uncomfortable, and overcrowded camps
Tuskegee airmen
African American fighter pilot shot down over 200 enemy planes
Navajo Code Talkers
Navajo native Americans spoke a language that only they knew so the US used it as a code that could not be deciphered
Genocide
Wiping out an entire group of people