Ch.24-25 Flashcards
“man of steel” took over after Lenin died, wanted to create a communist state
Joseph Stalin
Five years plan
wanted to make the soviet union an industrial power, purged anyone who threatened his power, established a totalitarian state, individual has no rights
established the facsist party, LL duce “the leader”
Benito Mussolini
Fascism
stresses nationalism and puts the interest of the state in front of the individual
stated the national socialist german workers party after WWI- NAZI, Der Fuhrer “the leader”
Adolf Hitler
Mein Kampf
hitlers book, set forth his basic beliefs
Nicknames for Hitler
Hitlers private army, set forth his basic beliefs
Began the spanish civil war and revolted against the republic, with the help of hitler and mussolini he defeated lincoln
Francisco Franco
Outlawed arms sale or loans to belligerent nations
Neutrality acts of 1935
German troops marches into (Blank) unopposed, hitler announced that its Anschluss (blank) was complete
Austria and Anschluss
After invading czech hitler invited french premier and british prime minister, hitler promised sudentenland would be his last territorial demand
Munich Pact
Giving up principles to pacify an aggresor
appeasment
poland
hitlers next target, claimed german speaking population was being abused by the poles
hitler signed this with stalin in order to avoid a two front war
nonaggression pact
german airforce
luftwaffe
lightning war, used to invade poland
Blitzkrieg
defensive line built by the french to prevent german invasion
Maginot line
Dunkirk
German offensive trapped 400K britihs and french soldiers as they fled to the beaches of Dunkirk
French general who fled to England to set up a government in exile
Charles de Gaulle
Prime minister of great britain, made war plans with FDR
Winston Churchill
the systematic murder of 6 million jews across europe
Holocaust
Kristallnacht
Night of Broken Glass
Hatred of Jews
Anti-semitism
jews were stripped of their citizenship, jobs, and property
Nuremberg Laws
Jews were forced to wear this
Star of David
Allowed warring nations to buy arms from the US as long as they paid cash and transported them in their own ships
Cash-and-Carry Policy