U.S. History: Chapter 16

Question 1

Joesph Stalin

Answer 1

leader of Soviet Union

Question 2

totalitarian

Answer 2

characteristic of a political system in which the government exercises complete control over tits citizens’ lives.

Question 3

Benito Mussolini

Answer 3

Italian leader who established a totalitarian regime

Question 4

fascism

Answer 4

political philosphy that advocates a strong, centralized, nationalistic government headed bby a powerful dictator

Question 5

Adolf Hitler

Answer 5

Germany’s chancellor

Question 6

nazism

Answer 6

the political philosophy based on extreme nationalism, racism, and militaristic expansionism that Adolf Hitler put into practice in Germany from 1933 to 1945

Question 7

Francisco Franco

Answer 7

general who led a group of Spanish army officers who rebelled against the Spanish republic and eventually became Spain’s fascist dictator

Question 8

Neville Chamerlain

Answer 8

British prime minister who met with Hitler in Munich

Question 9

Winston Churchill

Answer 9

Chamberlain’s political rival in Great Britain

Question 10

appeasement

Answer 10

giving up principles to passify an aggressor

Question 11

nonaggression pact

Answer 11

an agreement in which two nations promise not to go to war with each other

Question 12

blitzkrieg

Answer 12

“lightening war”; sudden, massive attack with combined air and ground forces, intended to achieve a quick victory

Question 13

Charles de Gaulle

Answer 13

French general who fled to England and set up a government-in-exile

Question 14

Holocaust

Answer 14

systematic murder of 11 million Jews and others across Europe

Question 15

Kristallnacht

Answer 15

“night of broken glass”; name given to the night of November 9, 1938 when gangs of Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues in Germany

Question 16

genocide

Answer 16

deliberate and systematic killing of an entire population

Question 17

ghettos

Answer 17

segregated Jewish areas in certain Polish cities

Question 18

concentration camps

Answer 18

prison camp operated by the Nazis where Jews and other enemies of Hitler where starved while doing slave labor or were murdered

Question 19

Axis powers

Answer 19

Germany, Italy and Japan that opposed the US during WWII

Question 20

Lend-Lease Act

Answer 20

law that allowed the US to ship arms and other supplies without immediate payment to nations fighting the Axis powers

Question 21

Atlantic Charter

Answer 21

declaration of principles in which the US and Great Britain set forth their goals in opposing the Axis powers

Question 22

Allies

Answer 22

Great Britian, Soviet Union and US that opposed the Axis powers

Question 23

Hideki Tojo

Answer 23

chief of staff of Japan’s Kwantung Army, who launched invasion into China

Question 24

Neutrality Acts

Answer 24

series of laws to prevent US arms sales and loans to nations at war