Chapters 24-25 Flashcards
Joseph Stalin
Man of steel, took control of country, model communist state, created growth, create industrial power
Treaty of Versailles
Anger and resentment, blame Germans, overseas colonies, border treaties
Totalitarian
Government has complete control of citizens, no rights
Benito Mussolini
Cool totalitarian regime in Italy, better strikes
Fascism
Stressed nationalism, state above individuals, single leader small groups
Black shirts
March to Rome, followers
Adolf Hitler
Jobless soldier, and SG WP Nazis, powerful public speaker, let Germany
Mein Kampt
My struggle, plan of Nazi party
Nazism
German fascism, extreme nationalis
Lebensraurn
Living space
Brown shirts
Secret army of nazi
Francisco Franco
Led rebel against Spanish Republic
Haley Selassie
Ethiopian Emperor
Kellogg Brian pack
War not use
Neutrality acts
US out of future war, outlawed arms sales, no loans to nations of work, extended band
Neville Chamberlain
British Prime Minister, last tutorial demand, thought peace
Appeasement
Giving up to pacify aggressor
Munich agreement
Sudeten land over to Germany
Sudetenland
Czechoslovakia
Winston Churchill
Didn’t agree with munich agreement
Nonaggression pact
Germany and Russia never attack each other
Blitzkreig
Lightning war, military technology, major fighting
Luftwaffe
German Air Force
Maginot line
System of Fortavacations along eastern France border
Charles de Gaulle
French general, fled
Battle of Britain
Invasion fleet, launched air warm, gained total control, target cities, radar technology, bombings
RAF
Britain’s Royal Air Force
Holocaust
Systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe