WW2 flashcards

Question 1

dictator

Answer 1

a person who rules a country with total authority and often in a cruel or brutal way

Question 2

Adolf Hitler

Answer 2

fascist leader of Germany

Question 3

Benito Mussolini

Answer 3

Italy fascist dictator

Question 4

Joseph Stalin

Answer 4

communist dictator of the soviet union

Question 5

Nazism

Answer 5

German political belief that believed in German ethnic solidarity

Question 6

Poland

Answer 6

final country Germany invaded before Britain declared war to stop German aggression

Question 7

Axis powers

Answer 7

Italy, Germany and japan

Question 8

Appeasement

Answer 8

Giving in to demands to avoid conflict

Question 9

Nonaggression pact

Answer 9

Agreement Hitler signed with the soviet union that allowed him to invade Poland without soviet union

Question 10

Domestic affairs

Answer 10

Events or problems that happen within your own country

Question 11

Neutrality

Answer 11

Refusing to support either side in an argument or disagreement

Question 12

Neutrality Acts

Answer 12

Series of laws that kept America out of WWll when it began

Question 13

Cash and Carry

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American policy of under while neutral

Question 14

Lend and lease

Answer 14

Program for the united states to supply arms to allies while officially stayed out of war

Question 15

Gestapo

Answer 15

the German state secret police during the Nazi regime

Question 16

Isolationism

Answer 16

a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.

Question 17

allied powers

Answer 17

nations that have joined in a association for mutual benefit

Question 18

antisemitism

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hostility to or prejudice against Jews

Question 19

fascism

Answer 19

a form of right or authority characterized by dictatorial power

Question 20

totalitarianism

Answer 20

system of government used to centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state