Axis Powers/Fascist Nations

Question 1

Fascism (causes)

Answer 1

• Great Depression
• fear of communism
• appeal to nationalism
• lack of strong governments

Question 2

Fascism (beliefs)

Answer 2

• Authoritarian
• state more important than the individual
• charismatic leader
• action/violence oriented
• extreme nationalism
• secret police
• supported by middle class industrialists

Question 3

Mussolini

Answer 3

(Italy)
Italy’s fascist leader
- revive Italian economy
- give Italy a strong leader

Question 4

Black Shirts

Answer 4

(Italy)
Mussolini’s secret police

Question 5

Battle of The Births

Answer 5

(Italy)
“The woman’s responsibility to birth many children”
- would receive awards for having certain amounts of kids
- banned contraceptives
- Mussolini wanted all these kids born as soldiers for the army

Question 6

Abyssinia/Ethiopia

Answer 6

(Italy)
- 1935
- nearby colonies
- revenge for losing the battle of Adwa many years ago (Italy embarrassingly lost to Ethiopia)
- League of Nations did nothing because of appeasement

Question 7

Invasion of Manchuria

Answer 7

(Japan)
- heavily industrializing
- running out of resources (island nation)
- Manchuria had resources

Question 8

Rape of Nanking

Answer 8

(Japan)
- Japanese capture Nanking 1937
- 6 week massacre
- fleeing Chinese soldiers wore civilian clothes so an order was released to attack everyone

Question 9

Adolf Hitler

Answer 9

(Germany)
- born in austria
- art school failure
- WWI soldier
- initially sent to spy on the Nazi party by German military but eventually joins them

Question 10

Nazi Party (beliefs)

Answer 10

(Germany)
- militarism
- anti-communism
- anti-semitism
- hated Weimar Republic (German gov) and TOV
- “brown shirts” private militia

Question 11

Beer Hall Putsch

Answer 11

(Germany)
- Hitler inspired by Mussolini to storm gov building and take power
- storms political meeting in Munich
- coup fails and hitler sent to prison

Question 12

Mein Kampf

Answer 12

(Germany)
- “My Struggle”
- book of nazi goals and beliefs + hitler’s plan of expansion and why he should be leader
- wrote in prison

Question 13

Aryans

Answer 13

(Germany)
- “the superior race”
- blond hair + blue eyed pure blood germans

Question 14

Lebensraum

Answer 14

(Germany)
- “living space”
- conquer territory + push out non-aryans to make living space for German aryans

Question 15

“Stabbed in the Back” Theory

Answer 15

(Germany)
- jews and socialists blamed for WWI loss
- also blamed for Weimar Republic being forced into power
- “lets blame everything on the jewish and socialists”

Question 16

Hitler Youth

Answer 16

(Germany)
- mandatory youth program to teach the nazi ideals from a young age
- indoctrination
- learn how to be in the army

Question 17

Nuremberg Laws

Answer 17

(Germany)
- set of anti-semitic laws

Question 18

Kristallnacht

Answer 18

(Germany)
- German politician assassinated by a jewish student in France
- Causes riots and destruction of temples and jewish-owned businesses in Germany
- big first event