world war 2 Flashcards

1
Q

Italy’s dictator

A

Mussolini

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2
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Italy’s form of government, believed greatness came through a dictator

A

Fascism

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3
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Fascist Militia

A

Blackshirts

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4
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Mussolini’s nick name

A

ll Duce

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5
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created the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics USSR

A

Vladimir Lenin

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6
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who came to power when Lenin died

A

Stalin

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7
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Govt owned farms

A

Collectives

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8
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leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party or the Nazi

A

hitler

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9
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author of Mien Kampf wrote in prison

A

Hilter

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10
Q

master race

A

Aryans

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11
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the leader

A

Der Fuhrer

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12
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in 1931 japan invaded a place in north china called

A

Manchuria

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13
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emperor Hirohiot asked who to withdraw troops from chinia

A

Hideki Tojo

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14
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the invasion of Nanking became known as the

A

Raping of Nanking

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15
Q

unification of Austria and Germany

A

Anschluss

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16
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hitler wanted what two countries to be with germany

A

austria and chechoslovakia

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17
Q

at the munich conference britain and france agreed to hitler’s policy know as

A

appeasement

18
Q

giving unfair demands in order to avoid conflict

A

appeasement

19
Q

Germany invaded Czechoslovakia and divided it into what countries

A

Slovakia

20
Q

lightning war

A

blitzkrieg

21
Q

338k British and french troops were saved in the

A

miracle at dunkirk

22
Q

German airforce

A

Luftwaffe

23
Q

brittian had what advantage

A

radar

24
Q

nazi and britian air fight

A

Battle of Britian

25
Q

made it illeagle to sell weapons to other countries

A

Neutrality

26
Q

Italy Japan Germany

A

axis

27
Q

wanted to repel the neutrality laws

A

Fight for Freedom Comittee

28
Q

wanted to keep isolationism

A

America First Comittee

29
Q

the four freedoms that US and britian stood for

A

freedom of speech,worship, want, fear,

30
Q

declared that the entire western half of the atlantic was part of western hemisphere and neutral

A

hemispheric defense zone

31
Q

postwar world democracy nonaggression free trade and freedom of seas

A

atlantic charter

32
Q

japs depended on

A

iron steel and oil

33
Q

items important for fighting a war

A

strategic materials

34
Q

japs surprise attack

A

Dec 7 1941

35
Q

Germany and italy declared war on US

A

Dec 11 1941

36
Q

extermination of the jews

A

holocaust

37
Q

hebrew for catastrophe

A

Shoah

38
Q

where people were sent to be killed

A

extermination camps

39
Q

where people were sent to be confined

A

concentration camps

40
Q

banned jews from merrying germans

A

nuremburg laws

41
Q

final solution for jews

A

wannsee conference