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