World War II Flashcards
Postwar Italy
Extreme inflation, rising unemployment, national debt
The great terror
Trials to eliminate old bolsheviks, 8 million arrested, created new communist party
Benito Mussolini
Leader of facist party, outlawed all political parties except facist parties
The corporate economy
Outlawed strikes, in Italy, set wages/prices,
Adolfo hitler’s rise to power
Weak Weimar republic, used propaganda
Nazi program
Nationalism, Getmans were a master race, anti-semitism towards Jews, anti-communism, Hitler was the Fuhrer or father of germany
Nazi totalitarian state
Only nazi party, Gestapo (secret police who arrested opposers,
Anti-semitism
Jews blamed for Germanys problems,
Nuremberg laws
Deprived Jews of citizenship, then required to wear the yellow star of David
Hitler and the Versailles treaty
Germany withdrew from the league of nations, rearmament, Germany marched into the Rhineland
Mussolini and Ethiopia
Massive invasion of Ethiopia, League of nations condemned Muasolini/Italy
The Spanish Civil War
Army leaders wanted facist government, led by Francisco Franco,
Outside assistance in Spanish civil war
Hitler/ Mussolini sent supplies to the nationalists, Russia sent supplies to the Republican side
The Munich conference
Hitler annexed Austria, Hitler, Neville chamberlain, Mussolini, and Edouard Daladier met and they appeased Hitler by giving Czechoslovakia to him
The holocaust
Systematic killing of Jews/gays