Chapter 11 Flashcards

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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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3
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Collectives

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  • government owned farmland
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4
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Iternationalism

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trade between nations creates prosperity and helps prevent war

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5
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Isolationism

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  • effort to remain neutral
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6
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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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7
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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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9
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Mein Kampf

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Hitler’s autobiography (means my struggle)

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10
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Anschluss

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unification of Austria

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11
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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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12
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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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14
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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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16
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Maginot Line

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a French border system

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17
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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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18
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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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19
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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.

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Nuremberg Laws
(September 1935) - banned marriages, took citizenship away, adapot more "Jewish names" - 1938 > block sources of income, jobless
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Kristallnacht
"Night of Broken Glass"
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Destroyers-for-Bases Deal
- US builds bases in British controlled Newfoundland, Caribbean, Bermuda - British receive 50 old destroyers to protect merchant ships
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Lend-Lease Act
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"
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Hemispheric Defense Zone
patrol Western half of the Atlantic, reveal location of German subs to Britain
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Atlantic Charter
released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on August 14, 1941
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Strategic Materials
materials essential to military, industrial, or civilian needs in times of national emergency
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Pearl Harbor
unprovoked attack from Japan in 1941
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FDR
Franklin Delano Roosevelt - released Atlantic Charter
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Joseph Stalin
- "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
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Winston Churchill
released Atlantic Charter
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Vladimir Lenin
served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia
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Gerald P. Nye
an American politician who represented North Dakota in the United States Senate from 1925 to 1945
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Benito Mussolini
- 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)
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Joseph Goebbles
- propaganda minister - stage attacks against Jews as a reaction to popularity of murdered German diplomat
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Nazi Germany
when the Nazi's took over Germany
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Japan after 1931
Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria
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The Holocaust
a period of time when Adof Hitler was sending and killing millions of Jews to their deaths
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Limitations on Jewish Immigration
- cannot take more than four dolars out of Germany - become a "public charge": can't accept all European refugees
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Treaty of Versailles (1919)
economic depression and work central governments leads to rise of antidemocratic movements
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Poland is Invaded
9/1/1939