World War 2 Flashcards
Italy:
Bento Mussolini
Exalts the nation and race above the individual strong central government that forcibly suppress opposition.
Fascism
Russia:
Joseph Stalin
Elimination of private property. Single authoritarian party controls means of production.
Communism
Germany:
Adolf Hitler
The new german republic:
Weimar Republic
Post WW1 problems:
- Restore order
- Revive the economy
- Feed the nations
The governments ____________________ paramilitary to restore order.
“Freikorps”
Hitler
- Born:
Austria
On Sept. 12, 1919 Hitler listens to a Right-wing radical group called:
The German workers party
Hitler seizure of power through force.
Bell hall putsch
Nazi:
National socialists german workers party
Nazi Platform:
- The destruction of “world bolshevism” (communists and jews).
- To destroy germanics enemies, both within germany and outside.
- Reclaim lost german lands.
- Make germany great again.
Results of the failed putsch:
- The trial publicity makes Hitler a national figure.
- He writes Mein Kampf.
- He decides to take power legally.
In the book, Hitler:
- Calls for the unification of all German-speaking peoples under one Government. (Austria)
- Claims the Germans belong to a “master race” called the aryans.
- Argues that germany needs Lebensraum (living space). This is to be found in the east.
- Hitler claims the jews are the greatest threat to the ayran race.
- they are being everything that will be apart of what the Nazi’s stand for.
Hitler’s Henchmen
- Men who will be instrumental in Hitler’s rise to power.
- Ernst Roehm: S.A. Chief, leader of the brown shirts.
- Herman Goering: Head of the Luftwaffe.
- Rudolf Hess: Party Secretary
- Joseph Goebbles: Minister of propaganda.
- Heinrich Himmler: Head of the S.S.
- Albert Speer: Head of the Munitions.
Hitler is named (Reichskanzler) chancellor of germany.
January 30, 1933
Economic recovery:
- The construction of the autobahn.
- Building the Volkswagen.
- Massive rearmament program.
June 29, 1934: The “night of the long knives purge:”
Hitler has Ernst Roehm and the S.A. leadership killed.
Hitler remilitarized the Rhineland:
March 7,1936
March 12, 1938:
(Unification) of Austria to Germany
The Munich Conference September 1938:
The allies agree to give the Suddetenland to Hitler in return for Hitler making no further territorial demands.
Western Democracies policy of _____________________- accepting Hitler’s demands in order to avoid conflict.
Appeasement
Hitler __________________ sign a non-aggression pact.
and Stalin
Hitler invades Poland. World War ll begins.
September 1, 1939