WWII - Part 1 Flashcards
Government that has complete control over its citizen and puts down all opposition
Totalitarian
Political system based on a strong, centralized government headed by a dictator
Fascism
Nazi dictator of Germany
Hitler
Fascist political philosophy of Germany under Nazi dictator Hitler
Nazism
Laws passed by Congress to ban the sale of arms or loans to nations to war
Neutrality Acts
Trying to pacify and aggressor in order to keep the peace
appeasement
Agreement between Germany and Russia not to fight each other
nonaggression pact
Systematic murder of 11 million Jews and other people in Europe by the Nazis
Holocaust
Name given the night of November 9, 1938, when nazis in Germany attacked Jews, their businesses and their synagogues
Kristallnacht
Deliberate and systematic killing of an entire people
Genocide
a segregated neighborhood
ghetto
Prison camps operated by the Nazis where Jews and others were starved while doing slave labor or murdered
Concentration camp
How did the United States react to the rise of expansionist dictatorships in Europe and Asia?
by the policy of isolationism and with the Neutrality Act.
How did the world react to Germany’s persecution of the Jews?
Nations didn’t want to accept Jewish refugees. The US didn’t change its immigration quotas and Americans feared competition for the few jobs available.
Who were the targets of the final solution?
Jews and political opponents who were Communists, Socialists, and liberals.
Why were certain people separated from the others and led to the gas chambers?
They were to old or weak to work
Germany, Italy, and Japan
Axis Powers
Law that allowed lending or leasing arms to any nation “whose defense was vital to the United States”
Led-Lease Act
Group of nations, including the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union, who opposed the Axis powers
Allies
How did the United States slowly move toward war?
by the cash-carry act and the peacetime draft.
What events moved the United States closer to war?
- The sinking of US ships by German U boats,
- The battle of the Atlantic,
- The Atlantic charter
What event caused the American declaration of war against Japan?
The bombing of Pearl Harbor caused the American declaration of war against Japan
________ is the deliberate and systematic killing of an entire people.
a. Appeasement
b. Fascism
c. Genocide
c. Genocide
A __________ is a “lightning war” of quick, crushing surprise attacks.
a. Holocaust
b. Blitzkrieg
c. Axis Powers
b. Blitzkrieg
When Germany, Italy, and Japan formed an alliance, they became known as the ___________.
a. Allies
b. Holocaust
c. Axis Power
c. Axis Power
In the ___________, the nazis systematically murdered over 11 million Jews and others.
a. Blitzkrieg
b. Holocaust
c. appeasement
b. Holocaust
______ is a form of very nationalistic totalitarian government with a strong dictator.
a. facism
b. genocide
c. blitzkrieg
a. fascism
The ______ included Britain, France, the United States, and others fighting the axis.
a. Lend-Lease act
b. Allies
c. Holocaust
b. Allies
The policy of _____ appeasement at Munich allowed Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia
a. Led-Lease act
b. Appeasement
c. blitzkrieg
b. Appeasement
The racist, nationalistic, expansionist philosophy of Hitler’s Germany was called
a. Appeasement
b. Nazism
c. Genocide
b. Nazism
