World War II Leaders Flashcards

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Joseph Stalin

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Soviet Union- totalitarian communist dictator

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Francisco Franco

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Spain- militarism and fascism

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Adolf hitler

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Germany- nazism
Racial purification
National expansion

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Benito Mussolini

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Italy- facist dictator

totalitarian regime

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Neville chamberlain

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British prime minister signed Munich agreement with hitler

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Winston Churchill

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Chamberlain’s political rival that felt chamberlain adopted the policy if appeasement

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Totalitarian

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Govt. that tried to exert complete control over citizens by giving them no rights and suppressing oppression

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Nazism

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German fascism based on extreme nationalism

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Fascism

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Stressed nationalism and the interests if the state over those of individuals

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Nonaggression pact

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NOT an alliance
Secret one between Soviet Union and hitler
Also one between Poland and Germany

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Blitzkrieg

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Lightning war- Germany’s military strategy of surprise attacks that crushed opposition

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RAF

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Britains Royal Air Force

Fought against German planes using radar

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Weimar Republic

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Germany’s democratic govt. that hitler replaced with the Third Reich

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Isolationism

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US’s foreign policy that Roosevelt changed some

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15
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Puppet govt.

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Nazi controlled govt. led by Marshall Philippe petain in southern France

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16
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Allied territories

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France
Great Britain
Soviet union

17
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Axis powers

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Albania
East Prussia
Germany
Italy

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Neutral countries

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Ireland. Portugal.
Spain. Sweden.
Switzerland.
Turkey

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Axis controlled powers

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Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria,Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia

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Causes for WWII

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Treaty of Versailles
War Guilt Cause
Land-Rhineland
De-militarize Army

21
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Treaty Of Versailles

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land issue (Rhineland), Germany had to pay reparations for war, Germany had to de-militarize, stopped factories from making weapons

22
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War Guilt Cause

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resentment in Germany for taking blame for an entire war

had to pay reparations = $33 billion to France and GB

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Rhineland

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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

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De-militarize Army

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reduce army to only 100,000 men

no more planes tanks or submarines or weapons = no defense

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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)
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Vladimir Lenin
Soviet Union- Bolsheviks and Russian Revolution Karl Marx Joseph Stalin
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Weimar Republic
Germany- Hitler (Der Furher)- The Third Reich
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Third Reich
first German empire=800AD-1806-Charlamagne (first holy Roman empire) Holy roman Empire-German Austria 2nd german empire 1871-1918
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Adolf Hitler
Austrian fought for Germany
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Mein Kampt
Hitler's book almost like journal wrote about Germans needing living space and Jews and their place
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Hitler's plans
wanted to restore germany and remove those inferior or undesirable (Jewish, Slavs, Homoexuals, mentally handicapped, Gypsies, communists)
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Japan
Emperor Hirohito General Tojo Admiral Yamamoto