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Chapter 11 Flashcards

1
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Axis Powers

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Germany, Italy and Japan

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Fascism

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  • what Italy supports
  • supports a dictator
  • started by Mussalani
  • nation > individual
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Collectives

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  • government owned farmland
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Iternationalism

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trade between nations creates prosperity and helps prevent war

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Isolationism

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  • effort to remain neutral
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Neutrality Act of 1937

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  • by none military supplies on cash and carry bases
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Nye Committee

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  • make relationship between arms manufacturing with business and how it supports war
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Neutrality Act of 1939

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  • Warring nations buy arms on cash and carry basis
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Mein Kampf

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Hitler’s autobiography (means my struggle)

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Anschluss

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unification of Austria

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Munich Conference

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(9/1938)
- Britain, France, Germany, Italy: appeasement (Gzech’s forced to give up land)
- Buy time to build military

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Appeasement

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giving into demands in order to avoid conflit

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13
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Danzig

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a seaport that Hitler wants

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Nazi-Soviet Pact

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Germany and USSR agree to ot fight each other and secret claws is to divide Poland after the war

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15
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Blitzkreig

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lightening war

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Maginot Line

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a French border system

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Miracle at Dunkirk

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  • German forces stop at Dunkirk
  • No one knows why
  • risking tanks
  • Three day delay > evacuate troops across English Channel
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Battle at Britian

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  • royal air force
  • defended large scale attacks
  • used radar technology
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Royal Air Force

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Britain air force

20
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Luftwaffe

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German air force

21
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Wannsee Conference

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1/20/1942
- Jewish Question
- Concentration Camps
- Extermination Camp

22
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Concentration Camps

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where Jews were held to be tortured and detained

23
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Gestapo

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(Secret Police) > arrest wealthy Jews, make them give up possessions

24
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SS St. Louis

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A passenger ship which carried over 900 Jewish refugees from Germany in 1939. They asked permission to dock in Canada but were refused.

25
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Nuremberg Laws

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(September 1935)
- banned marriages, took citizenship away, adapot more “Jewish names”
- 1938 > block sources of income, jobless

26
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Kristallnacht

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“Night of Broken Glass”

27
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Destroyers-for-Bases Deal

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  • US builds bases in British controlled Newfoundland, Caribbean, Bermuda
  • British receive 50 old destroyers to protect merchant ships
28
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Lend-Lease Act

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set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed “vital to the defense of the United States”

29
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Hemispheric Defense Zone

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patrol Western half of the Atlantic, reveal location of German subs to Britain

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Atlantic Charter

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released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on August 14, 1941

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Strategic Materials

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materials essential to military, industrial, or civilian needs in times of national emergency

32
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Pearl Harbor

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unprovoked attack from Japan in 1941

33
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FDR

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- released Atlantic Charter

34
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Joseph Stalin

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  • “Man of Steel”
  • Union of Soviet Socialist Republicans (USSR)
  • 1926: new dictator after Vladimir Lenin’s death, industrialize country, kill 8-10 million peasants to do so
  • let capitalist nations fight one another
35
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Winston Churchill

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released Atlantic Charter

36
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Vladimir Lenin

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served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia

37
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Gerald P. Nye

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an American politician who represented North Dakota in the United States Senate from 1925 to 1945

38
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Benito Mussolini

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  • stand for private property, middle class
  • stress Italy’s return to glory (Roman Times)
  • Blackshirt (militia) claiming to protect Romans from Communists, cabinet resigns, appointed as premier (becomes IL Duce: leader)
39
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Joseph Goebbles

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  • propaganda minister
  • stage attacks against Jews as a reaction to popularity of murdered German diplomat
40
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Nazi Germany

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when the Nazi’s took over Germany

41
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Japan after 1931

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Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria

42
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The Holocaust

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a period of time when Adof Hitler was sending and killing millions of Jews to their deaths

43
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Limitations on Jewish Immigration

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  • cannot take more than four dolars out of Germany
  • become a “public charge”: can’t accept all European refugees
44
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Treaty of Versailles (1919)

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economic depression and work central governments leads to rise of antidemocratic movements

45
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Poland is Invaded

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9/1/1939

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