The World in WWII Flashcards
One of Europe’s first dictators arose in _____.
Italy
In 1919 _______ founded Italy’s Fascist Movement.
Benito Mussolini
_________ wasan aggressive nationalistic movement that considered the nation more important than the individual.
Fascism
_______ believe that order in society and national greatness came through a dictator who led a strong government and built an empire.
Fascists
Fascism is also strongly ______.
anti-communist
Benito Mussolini was backed by the ________, a fascist militia
Blackshirts
After the Russian Revolution, the communist party, led by Vladimir Lenin, created the _________. (USSR)x
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
After Lenin died in 1924, ______ came to power
Stalin
_______ were government owned farms
Collectives
_________ was a fervent nationalist that hated the Allies and the German government that accepted their peace terms in WWII
Adolf Hitler
Hitler became the leader of the ______ Party
Nazi
The Nazi Party is the ______
National Socialist German Worker’s Party
The Nazi Party was _____.
Anti-Semitic
Hitler wrote ______ while he was in prison
Mein Kampf
In Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote that the German were part of a master race called the “_______”
Aryans
Benito Mussolini took the title of _______.
Il Duce
The lower house of German parliament is known as the _________.
Reichstag
Hitler took the title of _______.
Der Fuhrer
In 19919 Japan invaded a rich region of northern China known as _________.
Manchuria
_________ asked Hideki Tojo withdraw troops from China
Emperor Hirohiot
European leader tried to negotiate with Hitler to prevent a _________.
repeat of WWI
Hitler wanted to annex _______ and ________ into Germany
Austria and Czechoslovakia
Hitler sent troops into Austria and announced the ________ or unification of Austria and Germany
Anschluss
On September 29, 1938, __________ was held between Germany, France, and Britain.
The Munich conference
In the Munich Conference, Britain and France adopted a policy known as _______
Appeasement
__________ is giving in to unjust demands in order to avoid an all-out conflict
Appeasement
a month after the Munich Conference, Hitler demanded that the city of ________ be returned to Germany
Danzig
The germans used a new type of warfare called ________.
blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg means ________.
lightning war
The Germans crossed the ________ to surprise the Allied forces waiting on them
Ardennes Mountians
On June 4th 338k British and french troops were saved at the ________.
Miracle of Dunkirk
The German Air force was known as the _______.
Luftewaffe
________ was a group against the war
Americans First committee
________ was a group for the war
Fight for Freedom Committee
FDR proposed the _________ that the US would lend or lease arms to any country considered vital to US defense
Lend-Lease Act
___________ continued the ban on selling arms to warring countries and requiring them to buy all nonmilitary supplies
Neutrality Act of 1937
_______ made it illegal to sell arms to warring countries
Neutrality Act of 1935
_______ reported the huge profits that arms factories had made during the war and had created the impression that these businesses had influenced the decision to go to war
Nye committee
Britain would test American neutrality when they asked the US for _________
old destroyers to replenish their fleet
the _________ declared that the atlantic hemisphere was neutral
hemisphere defense zone
The _______ committed the US and Britain to a postwar world of democracy,nonaggression,free trade, economic advancement, and freedom of the seas
Atlantic Charter
THe Hebrew term Shoah means _____
catastrophe
Nazis met at the ______ to coordinate the final decision of the Jewish question
Wannsee
The _______ took away citizenship from Jews and outlawed the marriage of Germans and Jews
Nuremberg Laws
