Part 2 Flashcards
(25 cards)
Fascism
Government control over everything but believe in private property
Benito Mussolini
Fascist; Leader of Italy; One of Hitler’s allies
Spanish Civil War
Spanish Republic against the Fascists; When Hitler and Mussolini are helping Franco; Where Hitler tries out Blitzkrieg; Russians also support the Spanish Republic which leads to confusions in thinking the Spanish are communist
Lincoln Battalion
A group of volunteers from the United States that went to fight fascism on the side of the Spanish Republic; Example of revisionism; Now the definition is 2000-3000 volunteers from all around the world
Francisco Franco
A Fascist leader of Spain after the Spanish Civil War; Only Fascist in power after WWII
Neville Chamberlain
Great appeaser; decides that collective security is not working so he uses appeasement to get Hitler to stop
Appeasement
Giving in to the dictator hoping that he’ll stop there; Never works
Why did England and France appease Germany?
- They’re haunted by WWI; 2. Some believe the Treaty of Versailles was too harsh on the Germans; 3. Britain and France were not ready for war economically or militarily; 4. Triple Entente is dead; 5. Did not have the support of the US
Tripartite Pact
Japan, Italy and Germany; Fascists; NOT Russia
Non Aggression Pact
Germany and Russia agreeing not to fight each other; both are trying to buy time before the fighting breaks out; Germany was waiting to execute the Schlieffen plan which did work in WWII; Russia wasn’t ready because the industry was close to Germany and they were still trying to move everything
Hitler’s Foreign Policy Aims
destruction of the Treaty of Versailles; Conquest and colonization of Eastern Europe and the domination and exploitation of racial inferiors (Holocaust); Hitler is not a communist!
Six Million Jews
Total number of Jews that die during the Holocaust; 3 million in Poland alone
Final Solution
Holocaust
Blitzkrieg
“Lightening war” How Hitler is going to fight his wars, throws everything at his target and then leaves before they can retaliate
Battle for Britain
where radar becomes very important; Hitler was using his Blitzkrieg warfare; Luftwaffe the German aircraft involved in fighting
Royal Air Force
British air force; the ones fights in the Battle for Britain-mostly fought in the skies
Radar
Used very heavily in the Battle for Britain
Operation Magic
ID-operation that was set up to interpret Japanese codes during WWII; We have the ability to decipher the messages but Pearl Harbor still happened because there weren’t enough people working on it
Pearl Harbor
Attacked by the Japanese; this is the event that draws America into the war
Hirohito
Emperor of Japan during WWII
St. Louis
ID-A ship that leaves Germany after the Night of the Broken Glass; 900 Jews are aboard looking for asylum heading for Central America; They were turned away and head to Miami, turned away and then forced to go back to Europe; Greeted by Nazis taken straight to the concentration camps or they use what money they have to buy their way into France
The Babies Have Been Delivered
When Truman receives notice that the Atomic bomb has successfully been tested; at the Potsdam Conference
Manhattan Project
The atomic bomb program; code name for the development project
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The two cities that are hit by the Atomic bombs
