Chapter 29 Flashcards
Wanted to have an empire as big as those of Western powers. To do this they seized Manchuria in 1931
Japanese Military Leader
Took aggressive actions but met only verbal protest and pleas for peace from democracies. Mussolini, Hitler, and the leader of Japan saw people as a weakness and responded with aggression
Dictators
Overran much of eastern China starting the Second Sino-Japanese War (Protests from the West fell on deaf ears)
Japanese armies
Acted on its own imperialist ambitions. Invaded Ethiopia
Italy
Tested the will of western democracies. Broke the treaty of Versailles by building a german military and sent troops into the demilitarized zone of the Rhineland bordering france
Hitler
Is giving in to the demands of an aggression in order to keep the peace
Appeasement
Was demoralized and suffering from political division at home
France
Saw Hitler and Mussolini’s fascism as a lesser of two evils (compared to communism of the Soviet Union)
Britain and France
Opposition to all war, due to the disgust with the destruction from the previous war spread throughout the world
Pacifism
Are laws that forbade the sale of arms to any nation at war and outlawed loans to warring nations and prohibited Americans from traveling on ships of warring powers
Neutrality Acts
Germany, Italy, and Japan formed what became known as
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
Union of Austria and Germany
Anschluss
A region of western Czechoslovakia-be given autonomy
Sudetenland
Bound Hitler and Stalin to peaceful relationships. Secretly the two agreed not to fight if the other end to war and divide up land of Eastern Europe
Nazi-Soviet Pact
German forces invaded Poland. Two days later Britain and France declared war on Germany and _______ had started
World War 2
Lightning war. Used improve tanks and air power technology to strike a debasing blow against the enemy
Blitzkrieg
Or German Air Force would bomb airfields,factories, towns and cities
Luftwaffe
In April of 1940 Hitler launched a blitzkrieg against ______ and ______ then he went for and got Netherlands and Belgium
Norway and Denmark
An area considered invasion proof
Ardennes Forest in Belgium
Was the prime minister of Britian faced Hitler in defiance
Winston Churchill
Hitler wanted to plan for an invasion of Britain (_______) and to prep for it he launched massive air strikes against the island nation. They first bombed military spots, but after the British Air Force gave them a challenge, the Germans changed their targets and started to bomb London and other cities
Sea Lion
Were United so much that the King and Queen chose to support their people and stay in civilian bomb shelters in the city rather than feeling to the countryside
British
True/False: hitler failed to take Britain
True
Was known was the (Desert a Fox) and had hit major success in Africa from 1941-1942. He pushed the British back to Cairo, Egypt
Erwin Rommel
A plan which takes its name from a medieval Germanic leader Frederick Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa
Stated that he wanted the raw materials of the Soviet Union. Wanted the wheat fields in Ukraine, the forests of Siberia and wanted to crush communism in Europe and defeat a powerful rival Stalin
Hitler
Were considered to be an inferior race and they were pushed aside for more living space for the Germans
The Slavs of Eastern Europe
Are detention centers for civilians who were considered enemies of the state
Concentration Camps
Used millions of people from all over Europe to work as slave labored (prisoners were poorly fed and worked to death, you would never meant to leave there alive)
Nazis
Hitler targeted people who were
Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals, and the disables
Are sections of the city that Jewish people are confined (in these ghettos many Jewish people died from starvation, disease, overwork, and harsh elements)
Ghettos
A plan which was to kill all the Jews
Final Solution
Nazis massacred around six million Jews. Total was 12 million people
Holocausr
Declared they were neutral even though they were neutral many of them were sympathetic for those who fought the axis powers, FDR was one of them
U.S.