ww2 Flashcards
appeasement
yielding an enemies demands to keep peace
Munich pact
agreement in which britisn and France appeased Hitler by agreeing that Germany could annex the Sudetenland, a german speaking region of czechoslovakia
Stalin
- Totalitarianism: gov. controls all aspects of life
- 2 main goals
- modernize industry and raise agriculture
- targeted people he thought would overthrow him
- KGB enforced him
- 5 year plans
- gulag (labor camps)
Benito Mussolini
- Fascism: extreme nationalism (state first, liberty second)
- favors military
- Black shirts
- outlawed political parties, and labor unions, censored press
- felt wrong about T of V
Adolf Hitler
Nazism: Fascism and Racism, Aryan superiority
- wanted to expand
- abolishes weimer republic
- Der Fuhrer
- broke T of V
Hirohito/ Hideki Tojo
Hiohito- political leader Hideki- military leader -militarism: focuses on military -emporer goes along with what hideki says -called for expansion -Tojo became Japans Prime Minister
what does FDR do as dictators rise to power
stays out of it “good neighbor policy”
- 21 countries follow his lead
Hitler did what to test the L of N
builded germanys army
What did mussolini do to test the L of N
invaded ethiopia
non-agression pact
between stalin and hitler, to avoid a war on 2 fronts after he attacked poland,
blitzkrieg
lightning war, germany military strategy during ww2 of attacking without warning
fascism
political movement based on extreme nationalism, state first, liberty second
totalitarianism
gov controls all aspects of society, including economy
nazism
form of fascism that promoted the belief that germans and other nordic peoples were superior to other races
spanish civil war
spanish military and its right-winged allies known as nationalists overthrow spains democratic republic
neutrality acts
congress passes laws to keep the US neutral
Barbarossa
- Hitler was worried about stalin
- invasion of soviet union
- soviets used scorched earth policy
- Soviets defeat the germans in stallingrad by blocking off supply lines
fall of france
Hitler attacks france, using blitzerig tactics
-britian a\tried to evacuate as many soldiers as possible, as France was falling Musolini declared war on britian and france.
what happened after france fell?
germany occupied 3/5ths of the country, portion became a puppet government
puppet government
gov run by citizens of a conquored country who carry out the policies of the conquorer.
what happened to britian after france fell?
hitler bombed them, and attacked british ships, ports, and airfeilds, british defended
lend- lease act
legislation passed by congress in 1941 adopting a plan to lend arms to britian
axis powers
German, Italy, Japan
Allied powers
France, Britian, US