Rise of Dictators

Question 1

Washington Naval Conference

Answer 1

1921 conference among the world’s powers to talk about disarmament; dealt with the MAIN causes of war

Question 2

9 Power Treaty

Answer 2

a treaty among major powers to leave China alone; combated imperialism

Question 3

5 Power Treaty

Answer 3

Naval disarmament treaty that limits the number of ships every country can build; combated militarism

Question 4

Kellog-Briand Pact

Answer 4

outlawed war; made so there could be someone to blame

Question 5

Isolationism

Answer 5

when the US ignores foreign affairs in the 20s and 30s

Question 6

Fascism

Answer 6

military-style government with ranks and order

Question 7

Benito Mussolini

Answer 7

fascist dictator of Italy during WWII

Question 8

Black Shirts

Answer 8

the paramilitary group that helped Mussolini control Italy

Question 9

Joseph Stalin

Answer 9

leader of the soviet union from the 20s to the 50s; responsible for multiple genocides

Question 10

Holodomor

Answer 10

refers to the murder of between 2 million and 12 million Ukrainians using famine/starvation in 1932

Question 11

Adolf Hitler

Answer 11

dictator of Germany during WWII

Question 12

NAZI Party

Answer 12

National Social German Worker’s Party; the party that ruled Germany from 1933-1945

Question 13

SS

Answer 13

Hitler’s special elite soldiers who ran death camps

Question 14

Totalitarianism

Answer 14

when a government has total and complete control over its people’s lives

Question 15

Francisco Franco

Answer 15

fascist dictator of Spain during the Spanish Civil War and WWII; provided money despite not participating in the war

Question 16

Eduard Daladier

Answer 16

President of France at the start of WWII; terrified of the war

Question 17

Neville Chamberlain

Answer 17

Prime Minister of England at the start of the WWII

Question 18

Sudentenland

Answer 18

The northwestern part of Czechoslovakia where three million Germans lived

Question 19

Appeasement

Answer 19

giving in to avoid a fight

Question 20

Munich Conference

Answer 20

1938 conference where Chamberlain gave Hitler the Sudetenland in exchange for a promise not to touch Poland

Question 21

Emperor Hirohito

Answer 21

young emperor of Japan

Question 22

Hideki Tojo

Answer 22

military leader of Japan during WWII

Question 23

Manchuria

Answer 23

the eastern part of China invaded by Japan in 1931; they committed several human rights violations

Question 24

America First

Answer 24

an organization committed to keeping America out of WWII, led by Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh

Question 25

Herman Goehring

Answer 25

head of the German airforce

Question 26

Joseph Goebbels

Answer 26

head of propaganda

Question 27

Heinrich Himmler

Answer 27

head of the SS

Question 28

Reinard Heydrich

Answer 28

second in charge