chapter 16

Question 1

totalitarianism

Answer 1

governmental system
exerts total control over its people
individuals have no rights government suppresses all opposition

Question 2

Benito Mussolini

Answer 2

establish totalitarian regime in Italy

played on fears that Italy would turn communist; turned fascist

Question 3

Joseph Stalin

Answer 3

took control of Soviet Union
abolished all forms of private ownership
transformed Soviet Union from backwards country to industrial powerhouse

Question 4

Fascism

Answer 4

extreme nationalism, controlled by a dictator,

placed interests of the state above individual needs.

Question 5

Nazism

Answer 5

German brand of fascism.

Question 6

lebensraum

Answer 6

Means living space.

Securing the land and soil with which to feed, house, grow the German race.

Question 7

Francisco Franco

Answer 7

Fascist leader of Spain,

leader of the Spanish Civil War.

Question 8

Isolationism

Answer 8

American foreign policy before and after World War I,

meant to keep America out of world political crises.

Question 9

Neutrality Acts

Answer 9

Series of Acts meant to enforce isolationism,

outlawed arms sales or loans to countries at war.

Question 10

Neville Chamberlain

Answer 10

British Prime Minister before World War II who signed the Munich Pact.

Question 11

Winston Churchill

Answer 11

Opposition leader in Great Britain,

called the Munich Agreement “appeasement” and condemned it.

Question 12

Appeasement

Answer 12

Giving up principles to pacify an aggressor.

Question 13

Nonaggression Pact

Answer 13

Agreement between Germany and Soviet Union to never attack one another.

Question 14

Blitzkrieg

Answer 14

Lightening War.
Strategy by Germany
use advances in technology to take the enemy by surprise and crush opposition with overwhelming force.

Question 15

Phony War

Answer 15

German, British, French troops mass along French border and wait for war.

Question 16

Charles de Gaulle

Answer 16

French General

fled to Britain and set up government in exile.

Question 17

Battle of Britain

Answer 17

Air war for control of Britain.

Germany bombed British cities day and night to force surrender.

Question 18

Holocaust

Answer 18

Systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe.

Question 19

Kristallnacht

Answer 19

Night of broken glass.

Beginning of the roundup of the Jews in Germany.

Question 20

Final Solution

Answer 20

Policy of genocide,

deliberate and systematic extermination of the Jews, Gays, Gypsies and political opposition.

Question 21

Concentration Camps

Answer 21

Labor camps where Jews and other undesirables were sent.

Question 22

Tripartite Pact

Answer 22

Mutual defense treaty signed by Germany, Italy and Japan.

Question 23

Selective Service Act

Answer 23

allowed for training and drafting of men in the United States.

Question 24

Arsenal of Democracy

Answer 24

US Military aid for Great Britain and the Soviet Union in the early stages of WWII.

Question 25

Cash and Carry

Answer 25

Allows warring nations to buy U.S. arms as long as they paid cash and carried them in their own ships.

Question 26

Lend Lease Agreement

Answer 26

U.S. to lend or lease arms to nations whose defense is vital to the United States safety.

Question 27

Atlantic Charter

Answer 27

Joint declaration of war aims by the US and Britain.

Question 28

Hideki Tojo

Answer 28

Japanese military leader in charge of Japan.

Question 29

December 7, 1941

Answer 29

Date Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.

US enters the war against Japan and Germany.

Question 30

Why does Germany turn to Adolf Hitler

Answer 30

War debts, reliance on U.S. loans, 6 million unemployed, Treaty of Versailles

Question 31

Black Shirts

Answer 31

Italy.

The Black shirts enforced Mussolini’s viewpoints at gunpoint many times

Question 32

Union with Germany

Anschluss

Answer 32

The world did nothing to prevent this

Majority of Austria’s people, 6 million, were Germans who favored

Question 33

Chelmno

Answer 33

first death camp set up in 1941

Question 34

Night

Answer 34

Elie Wiesel’s boon

described life in the concentration camps of the Nazis

Question 35

What percent of Polands Jewish population was exterminated

Answer 35

90%

Question 36

Which countries did cash and carry benefit

Answer 36

Great Britain
France
Soviet Union

Question 37

What pulls the US into the war

Answer 37

Pearl Harbor

Question 38

Arsenal of democracy

Answer 38

The US

supplied most of the weapons to defeat the Axis powers

Question 39

Goals set by the charter
5
3

Answer 39

Collective Security
Self-determination
Disarmament
Economic Cooperation
Freedom of the Seas

Question 40

Radar

Answer 40

Used in battle of britian to defeat luftwaffe

Question 41

What was the most important area for Japan to conquer if they wished to maintain a military after 1941?

Answer 41

The Philippines.
They were the largest source of oil in the region
we cut off their supplies, they needed the resource to maintain their military presence in the Pacific.