Chapter 31 Test Flashcards
Who were the Swing Kids?
A group of German teens who loved American Swing music and used it as a way to rebel against Hitler’s policies. Some were arrested for their love of swing.
The Kristallnacht was an attack on who?
Jews
Who was the leader of the Third Reich?
Adolf Hitler
What was the only eastern European country that remained a democracy in 1935?
Czechoslovakia
Nazism was the German form of what?
Facism
Which country had a non-agression pact with the Soviet Union in 1939?
Germany
What does Mein Kampf mean in English?
My Struggle
Manchuria was invaded by what country in 1931?
Japan
What countries were part of the Axis Powers?
Italy, Japan, Germany
Il Duce was the title of which leader?
Benito Mussolini
What is isolationism?
The American policy of avoiding involvement in European alliances and wars.
What was Hitler’s main way of achieving lebensraum (getting more living space for Germans)?
Taking over other countries
What was Facism?
A new military political movement the valued loyalty to the state and obedience to its leader.
What treaty did Hitler refuse to obey?
The Treaty of Versaille
Who started the New Deal (the plan to restore the American Economy)?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
What was the name of the plan for an international committee to strengthen Germany’s economy?
The Dawes Plan
What was the Kellogg-Briand pact?
A pledge by countries not to use war as a tool of national policy.
Who was prime minister of Britain?
Neville Chamberlain
What was appeasement?
The policy of giving into Hitler’s demands to avoid another big war. It didn’t work.
