WW2 Test Flashcards
nationalism
advocacy of political independence
collective security
envisioned by Woodrow WIlson and it was the reliance on a group of nations as protection against aggressors
Womens International League for Peace/Freedom
organized 1914 by Jane Addams and Emily Greene Balch
Kellogg Briand Pact
1928
62 nations agreed to condemn recourse to war for solution of international controversies
Cordell Hull
Hull was the Secretary of State under FDR
-believed that economic expansion by US would stabilize world politics
Good Neighbor Policy
effort of FDR administration to enhance economic and diplomatic relations with Latin America. no state had the right to intervene with the affairs of the other
Facist values
ideas that celebrated supremacy.
- state over individual
- dictatorship over democracy
- authoritism over freedom of speech
Nuremeberg Laws of 1935
stripped Jews of citizenship and outlawed marriage to Germans
-teachers, doctors, and other professions couldn’t practice their craft
what year did Italy invade Ethiopia
1935
in what year did Hitler re-arm the Rhineland?
1935
what is the Rome-Berlin Axis
Italy and Germany became allies in 1936
who was the dictator of Italy
Benito Mussolini
when was the Spanish Civil War
1936-1939
explain the Spanish Civil War
conflict between Facist General Franco and Loyalist govt
- tested US neutrality
- Mussolini and Hitler helped Franco in order to use country as testing ground for bombs
Sudeten Crisis
piece of land South of Czech betrayed by GB and France to appease Hitler in 1938 Munich Conference
Nye Committee
hearings from 1934-1936 on role of business/financiers in the US decision to enter 1st WW
Neutrality Act of 1935
prohibited arms shipments to either side in a war
Kristallnacht
night of broken glass
mobs ransacked more than 7,000 Jewish shops and synagogues
-91 died and 30,000 sent to concentration camp
Soviet German Nonaggression Act
agreement between Hitler and Stalin not to attack each other which allowed Germany victories in the west without worries in the east
Blitzkrieg or “lightening war”
Sept 1st 1939
- Germany invaded Poland
- blitzkrieg = form of warfare used by German troops in vehicles with support from airplanes.
- tactics result in swift German conquests
phony war
during WW2 Hitler removes forces from Poland to focus on GB and France
- Europe silent/shocked/inactive @ Hitler
- period inactivity=phony war
in what year did Japan invade Manchuria
1931
what is the global response to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria
the League of nations rebuke Japan while the US does nothing
in what year were the Nuremberg Laws passed
1935
in what year does Hitler invade Ethiopia
1935
what is both the global and US response to Hitler’s invasion of Ethiopia
the League of Nations imposes minor sanctions on Germany and the US passes the Neutrality Act of 1935
is there a global response to Hitler’s German universal draft?
no