Ww2 Flashcards
Communism
Russia/Soviet Union
Fascism
Italy /Spain
Nazism
Germany
Militarism
Japan
Racism
Superiority of their race
Totalitarian states
Where the police gov. Control everything
People had no right
Karl Marx
Was the movement founder -Marxism
Valdamir Lenin
Leader of Bolsheviks
Bolsheviks
A group of revolutionary Russian marxists who took control of Russia government in November 1917
Joseph stalin
was the dictator of the Union of Soviet/Russia
Black shirts (ss)
Becomes Hitlers personal army
Italian militants
Define; Fascism/fascist
Government, not communism where the state is above the individual
Benito Mussolini (lL Duce)
Fascist dictator of Italy & founded the fascist party
Francisco France
Was a Spanish general and politician who ruled over Spain as a military
Adolfo hitler
Dictator of Germany
Leader of NAZI party
Mein Kampf
Hitlers book( My struggle) The nazis consider it as a bible
Brown shirts
(Stormtroopers) help hitter to get elected (militia)
Master race
- Aryan people(blond, blue eyed, white )/pure Germans
- Hitter though the Germans people were superior to all others
Third Reich
Third empire
German empire
Gestapo
German secret police
Swastika
Was the symbol of the nazis
Weimar Republic
- The name given to the government in Germany established after ww1 and ending with Hitlers ascension to power
- Democratic government
Untermensch means
Subhuman
Undesirable groups
Jehovah witness Homosexual Blacks Handicapped Jews Polish/Russian-slave Rome
Undersirables are the inferior people
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Mongrets
Impure mixed bread
HJ
The hitler youth
Scapegoat
Blamed for all problems
Someone who takes the blame but doesn’t deserve to be punish
Nuremberg Laws
Anti-Jewish laws in Germany
Anti-Semitic (hatred) laws against jews by the nazi Germany
Kristallnacht
Nigh of broken glass
This program organized massacre against the German Jewish community in Germany
Star of David
Six -pointed figure
The yellow badge that Jews were forced to wear
Puppet state
A supposedly independent country under the control of a powerful neighbor
Japan first target in 1930’s
Manchuria (China)
China
Is the middle of a civil war -nationalist vs. communists
Japan
Rise of militarism (glorification of war)
The military government is headed by (Japan)
Hideki tojo
The Japanese’s emperor
Hirohito becomes a puppet
Militarists
A person who believes that a country should maintain a strong military capability
Pan asianism
is an ideology that promotes the unity of Asian peoples.
Blitzkrieg
Lightening warfare
Lebensraum
Living space
Hideki Tojo
Order the attack on Pearl Harbor
Manchuria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on 19 September 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. After the war, the Japanese established the puppet state of Manchukuo.
Molotor Ribbentrop pact
German Soviet non-aggression pact-alliance between them
officially known as the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a neutrality pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union .
Appeasement policy
Gives in to Hitlers demand to avoid war
Neville chamberlain.
Prime minster of Great Britain
was a British Conservative Party statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Munich pact
British and French prime ministers Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier sign the Munich Pact with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. The agreement averted the outbreak of war but gave Czechoslovakia away to German conquest.
Hitler and Great Britain to prevent war
Operation overload
Code for D-day
