World War II Leaders Flashcards
Joseph Stalin
Soviet Union- totalitarian communist dictator
Francisco Franco
Spain- militarism and fascism
Adolf hitler
Germany- nazism
Racial purification
National expansion
Benito Mussolini
Italy- facist dictator
totalitarian regime
Neville chamberlain
British prime minister signed Munich agreement with hitler
Winston Churchill
Chamberlain’s political rival that felt chamberlain adopted the policy if appeasement
Totalitarian
Govt. that tried to exert complete control over citizens by giving them no rights and suppressing oppression
Nazism
German fascism based on extreme nationalism
Fascism
Stressed nationalism and the interests if the state over those of individuals
Nonaggression pact
NOT an alliance
Secret one between Soviet Union and hitler
Also one between Poland and Germany
Blitzkrieg
Lightning war- Germany’s military strategy of surprise attacks that crushed opposition
RAF
Britains Royal Air Force
Fought against German planes using radar
Weimar Republic
Germany’s democratic govt. that hitler replaced with the Third Reich
Isolationism
US’s foreign policy that Roosevelt changed some
Puppet govt.
Nazi controlled govt. led by Marshall Philippe petain in southern France
Allied territories
France
Great Britain
Soviet union
Axis powers
Albania
East Prussia
Germany
Italy
Neutral countries
Ireland. Portugal.
Spain. Sweden.
Switzerland.
Turkey
Axis controlled powers
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria,Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia
Causes for WWII
Treaty of Versailles
War Guilt Cause
Land-Rhineland
De-militarize Army
Treaty Of Versailles
land issue (Rhineland), Germany had to pay reparations for war, Germany had to de-militarize, stopped factories from making weapons
War Guilt Cause
resentment in Germany for taking blame for an entire war
had to pay reparations = $33 billion to France and GB
Rhineland
land was taken away= no more factories= no more products- had to give land back to france and land to east to Poland
land for Jews
De-militarize Army
reduce army to only 100,000 men
no more planes tanks or submarines or weapons = no defense
Depression (1920s-1930s)
affected everyone in the world
6 million unemployed in 1930s
rise of totalatarian dictatorship
league of nations (mussolini invaded Egypt and Germany invaded countries and league of nations)
Vladimir Lenin
Soviet Union- Bolsheviks and Russian Revolution Karl Marx Joseph Stalin
Weimar Republic
Germany- Hitler (Der Furher)- The Third Reich
Third Reich
first German empire=800AD-1806-Charlamagne (first holy Roman empire)
Holy roman Empire-German Austria
2nd german empire 1871-1918
Adolf Hitler
Austrian fought for Germany
Mein Kampt
Hitler’s book almost like journal wrote about Germans needing living space and Jews and their place
Hitler’s plans
wanted to restore germany and remove those inferior or undesirable (Jewish, Slavs, Homoexuals, mentally handicapped, Gypsies, communists)
Japan
Emperor Hirohito
General Tojo
Admiral Yamamoto
