Vocabulary Flashcards
Fascism
A new militant political movement that emphasized loyalty to the country and obedience to it’s leaders.
Nazism
German belief system that has it’s own form of Fascism
Mein Kampf
“My Struggle” - book written by Hitler
Appeasement
Give into an aggressor to keep a temporary peace
Axis Powers
Germany, Japan, Italy
Isolationism
The art of avoiding alliances
Third Reich
The plan for the new German Empire
Munich Conference
The agreement that Germany can take the Northwestern border
Nazi Soviet Nonaggression Pact
A deal that they would not attack each other
Blitzkrieg
German lightening war strategy
Nagasaki
First atomic bomb dropped in war
Hiroshima
Atomic bomb dropped on August 9, 1945
Luftwaffe
German Airforce most powerful
Pearl Harbor
attack by the Japanese to take out all the US Naval
Aryan
Germanic people that Nazi people considered a “master race”
Holocaust ( know the three stages )
Social Isolation
Isolation
Final solution
Kristallnacht
Organized violence which encourage emigration
Ghetto
Segregated Jewish areas
Final Solution
Executing Jews
Genocide
The systematic killing of an entire group of people
D-Day
The day of the beach landing at Normandy
Kamikaze
Japanese piolets who made suicidal crashes into enemies
Manhattan Project
The code name for the American atomic bomb
swastika
Nazi logo
Enola Gay/Gray
Bombed Japan
Fuhrer
German word for leader
Nuremburg Trials
An international court that tried and convicted several high ranking officers
