Road to War Flashcards
Dictator of Italy
Benito Mussolini
Mussolini followers who punished opposition
blackshirts
Name of political ideology that Mussolini set up in Italy
Facism
Group that Mussolini persecuted the most
Ethiopians or communists and socialists
County that Italy invaded to show its dominance and exact revenge for earlier defeat
Ethiopia
Dictator of Germany
Adolf Hitler
Book Hitler wrote in Prison
Mein Kampf
Three ways Hitler went against the Treaty of Versailles
military buildup, sent troops into Rhine land, stopped paying reparations
Term for when the German Mark became worth less than the paper it was printed on
inflation
Response to the condemnation of the League of Nations
Leaves the league
Japan invaded this country to spark the ire of the League of Nations
Manchuria
Alliance between Japan Italy and German
Tripartite Pact
Chinese leader who fell to the Japanese
Jiang Jieshi
Two Goals for Japan
reduce western influence and promote Japanese expansion throughout Asia
This event starts WWII
Germany invades Poland
German from of Fascism
Nazism
To give in to an aggressor in hopes for peace
Appeasement
US international policy after WWI
US Isolationism
Ethiopian leader who went to the UN for help against Italy
Haile Selassie
British leader who believed that the appeasement policy would not work
Winston Churchill
After the Munich Conference he said “I believe we have achieved peace in our time
Chamberlain
General of Spain
Francisco Franco
kristallnacht
1938, nazis started destroying jew house and business this is the real start of elimination
Japan invaded Manchuria
1931, first direct challenge to the league of nations, Japanese engineers built mines and factories
Italy attack Ethiopia
1935,
Spanish Civil war
1936, Spain changes to republic, some officials revolt and want fascist style
Munich Conference
1938, Czechs not invited, Britain believed they could preserve peace
Nazi Soviet Non Aggression Pact
1939, the dictators or Russia and Germany pledge to never attack each other ever again
Facsism
New militant movement that emphasized loyalty to the state and obediance to its leader
II Duce
leader
Black shirts
Group of fascists who wore black shirts and attacked communists and socialists on the streets
third reich
german empire
Brown shirts
Private milita set up by the nazis also known as the storm troopers
nazism
german brand of fasicsm
fuher
leader of the nazi party
mein kampf
hitlers book written in prison set forward is beliefs and goals for germany
lebensraum
living space
axis powers
Germany, Japan, and Italy came to be Axis powers
appeasement
Giving into an aggressor to keep peace
Isolationism
beliefs that political ties to other counties should be avoided
Area that Germany was not supposed to put troops in
Rhine land
2 reasons why Dictators rise in Europe
great depression and facsism
Term that means hatred of the Jewish population
anti-semitism
Came up with the idea of Fascism
benito mussolini
Fascist leader of the Rebels during the Spanish Civil War
Francisco franco
