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The World in WWII Flashcards

1
Q

One of Europe’s first dictators arose in _____.

A

Italy

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2
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In 1919 _______ founded Italy’s Fascist Movement.

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Benito Mussolini

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3
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_________ wasan aggressive nationalistic movement that considered the nation more important than the individual.

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Fascism

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4
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_______ believe that order in society and national greatness came through a dictator who led a strong government and built an empire.

A

Fascists

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5
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Fascism is also strongly ______.

A

anti-communist

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6
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Benito Mussolini was backed by the ________, a fascist militia

A

Blackshirts

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7
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After the Russian Revolution, the communist party, led by Vladimir Lenin, created the _________. (USSR)x

A

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

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8
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After Lenin died in 1924, ______ came to power

A

Stalin

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9
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_______ were government owned farms

A

Collectives

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10
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_________ was a fervent nationalist that hated the Allies and the German government that accepted their peace terms in WWII

A

Adolf Hitler

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11
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Hitler became the leader of the ______ Party

A

Nazi

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12
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The Nazi Party is the ______

A

National Socialist German Worker’s Party

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13
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The Nazi Party was _____.

A

Anti-Semitic

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14
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Hitler wrote ______ while he was in prison

A

Mein Kampf

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15
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In Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote that the German were part of a master race called the “_______”

A

Aryans

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16
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Benito Mussolini took the title of _______.

A

Il Duce

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17
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The lower house of German parliament is known as the _________.

A

Reichstag

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18
Q

Hitler took the title of _______.

A

Der Fuhrer

19
Q

In 19919 Japan invaded a rich region of northern China known as _________.

A

Manchuria

20
Q

_________ asked Hideki Tojo withdraw troops from China

A

Emperor Hirohiot

21
Q

European leader tried to negotiate with Hitler to prevent a _________.

A

repeat of WWI

22
Q

Hitler wanted to annex _______ and ________ into Germany

A

Austria and Czechoslovakia

23
Q

Hitler sent troops into Austria and announced the ________ or unification of Austria and Germany

A

Anschluss

24
Q

On September 29, 1938, __________ was held between Germany, France, and Britain.

A

The Munich conference

25
Q

In the Munich Conference, Britain and France adopted a policy known as _______

A

Appeasement

26
Q

__________ is giving in to unjust demands in order to avoid an all-out conflict

A

Appeasement

27
Q

a month after the Munich Conference, Hitler demanded that the city of ________ be returned to Germany

A

Danzig

28
Q

The germans used a new type of warfare called ________.

A

blitzkrieg

29
Q

Blitzkrieg means ________.

A

lightning war

30
Q

The Germans crossed the ________ to surprise the Allied forces waiting on them

A

Ardennes Mountians

31
Q

On June 4th 338k British and french troops were saved at the ________.

A

Miracle of Dunkirk

32
Q

The German Air force was known as the _______.

A

Luftewaffe

33
Q

________ was a group against the war

A

Americans First committee

34
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________ was a group for the war

A

Fight for Freedom Committee

35
Q

FDR proposed the _________ that the US would lend or lease arms to any country considered vital to US defense

A

Lend-Lease Act

36
Q

___________ continued the ban on selling arms to warring countries and requiring them to buy all nonmilitary supplies

A

Neutrality Act of 1937

37
Q

_______ made it illegal to sell arms to warring countries

A

Neutrality Act of 1935

38
Q

_______ reported the huge profits that arms factories had made during the war and had created the impression that these businesses had influenced the decision to go to war

A

Nye committee

39
Q

Britain would test American neutrality when they asked the US for _________

A

old destroyers to replenish their fleet

40
Q

the _________ declared that the atlantic hemisphere was neutral

A

hemisphere defense zone

41
Q

The _______ committed the US and Britain to a postwar world of democracy,nonaggression,free trade, economic advancement, and freedom of the seas

A

Atlantic Charter

42
Q

THe Hebrew term Shoah means _____

A

catastrophe

43
Q

Nazis met at the ______ to coordinate the final decision of the Jewish question

A

Wannsee

44
Q

The _______ took away citizenship from Jews and outlawed the marriage of Germans and Jews

A

Nuremberg Laws

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