the coming of ww2 vocab

Question 1

Totalitarianism

Answer 1

theory of government in which a
single party or leader controls the economic, social, and cultural lives of its people

Question 2

Joseph Stalin

Answer 2

dictator and head of the Communist Party in Russia

Question 3

Benito Mussolini

Answer 3

founder of the Fascist Party and Italian dictator

Question 4

Adolf Hitler

Answer 4

dictator who wanted to unite all
Germanic people into one state

Question 5

anti-Semitic

Answer 5

prejudice and discrimination against
Jewish people

Question 6

Appeasement

Answer 6

policy of granting concessions to a
potential enemy in the hope that it will maintain peace

Question 7

Anschluss

Answer 7

Germany’s peaceful union with Austria.

Question 8

Munich Pact

Answer 8

agreement in which Britain and France attempted to preserve peace by allowing Hitler to take more territory

Question 9

blitzkrieg

Answer 9

lightning war

Question 10

Axis Powers

Answer 10

Germany, Italy, Japan, and
other nations that fought together during World War II

Question 11

Winston Churchill

Answer 11

British prime minister
during World War II; said Nazi aggression threatened all democracies.

Question 12

Neutrality Act of 1939

Answer 12

American law that allowed
nations at war to buy U.S. arms if they paid cash and carried them away on their own ships

Question 13

allies

Answer 13

• Britain
• France
• Soviet Union
• United States
• China

Question 14

Tripartite Pact

Answer 14

three-party agreement establishing
an alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan

Question 15

Lend-Lease Act

Answer 15

The United States wanted to help the Allied powers to defeat Germany but was perceived by the Axis powers as a declaration of economic war

Question 16

Atlantic Charter

Answer 16

strengthened the alliance
between the United States and Britain