Flashcards

Question 1

Dictator

Answer 1

a person who rules a country with total authority and often in a cruel or brutal way

Question 2

Adolf Hitler

Answer 2

Fascist leader of Germany

Question 3

Benito Mussolini

Answer 3

Italy’s fascist dictator

Question 4

Joseph Stalin

Answer 4

Communist dictator of the soviet union

Question 5

Nazism

Answer 5

German political belief that believed in German ethnic solidarity

Question 6

Poland

Answer 6

Final country Germany invaded before Britain declared war to stop German aggression

Question 7

Axis Powers

Answer 7

Italy,Germany and Japan

Question 8

Appeasement

Answer 8

Giving in to demands to avoid conflict

Question 9

Nonaggression Pact

Answer 9

Agreement Hitler signed with the soviet union that allowed him to invade Poland without soviet retribution

Question 10

Domestic Affairs

Answer 10

Events or problems that happen within your own country

Question 11

Neutrality

Answer 11

Refusing to support either side in an argument or disagreement

Question 12

Neutrality acts

Answer 12

series of laws that kept america out of ww2 when it began

Question 13

Cash and Carry

Answer 13

American policy of under while neutral,which sold weapons to nation at war for cash and if they transported the shipments

Question 14

Lend-Lease act

Answer 14

Program for the Untied States to supply arms to allies while officially staying out of war

Question 15

Gestapo

Answer 15

a political secret police created by Adolf Hitler to investigate and put down and political opposition

Question 16

Isolationism

Answer 16

a policy of avoiding contract with other countries

Question 17

Allied Powers

Answer 17

the name for the alliance formed by the great Britain,France,the Soviet union and the United stats during ww2

Question 18

anti-semitism

Answer 18

hostility toward and discrimination against Jews

Question 19

Fascism

Answer 19

a political system based on nationalism and strong government;Adolf Hitler in Germany and Benito Mussolini in Italy were the first fascist leaders

Question 20

Totalitarianism

Answer 20

a system in which the government controls all aspect of peoples lives