Rise of Dictators Flashcards
Washington Naval Conference
1921 conference among the world’s powers to talk about disarmament; dealt with the MAIN causes of war
9 Power Treaty
a treaty among major powers to leave China alone; combated imperialism
5 Power Treaty
Naval disarmament treaty that limits the number of ships every country can build; combated militarism
Kellog-Briand Pact
outlawed war; made so there could be someone to blame
Isolationism
when the US ignores foreign affairs in the 20s and 30s
Fascism
military-style government with ranks and order
Benito Mussolini
fascist dictator of Italy during WWII
Black Shirts
the paramilitary group that helped Mussolini control Italy
Joseph Stalin
leader of the soviet union from the 20s to the 50s; responsible for multiple genocides
Holodomor
refers to the murder of between 2 million and 12 million Ukrainians using famine/starvation in 1932
Adolf Hitler
dictator of Germany during WWII
NAZI Party
National Social German Worker’s Party; the party that ruled Germany from 1933-1945
SS
Hitler’s special elite soldiers who ran death camps
Totalitarianism
when a government has total and complete control over its people’s lives
Francisco Franco
fascist dictator of Spain during the Spanish Civil War and WWII; provided money despite not participating in the war
Eduard Daladier
President of France at the start of WWII; terrified of the war
Neville Chamberlain
Prime Minister of England at the start of the WWII
Sudentenland
The northwestern part of Czechoslovakia where three million Germans lived
Appeasement
giving in to avoid a fight
Munich Conference
1938 conference where Chamberlain gave Hitler the Sudetenland in exchange for a promise not to touch Poland
Emperor Hirohito
young emperor of Japan
Hideki Tojo
military leader of Japan during WWII
Manchuria
the eastern part of China invaded by Japan in 1931; they committed several human rights violations
America First
an organization committed to keeping America out of WWII, led by Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh
