Ch. 16 Test Flashcards

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Stalin

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Took over Russia in 1922, communist, “man of steel”

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Treaty of Versailles

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Ended WW1, Blamed Germany

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Paris pact

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Agreement by country saying they would solve differences without going to war

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Totalitarian government

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Wanted to have complete control of citizens; one party would have complete control and ban other parties

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Nationalism

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Loyalty to ones country

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Expansionism

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Wanting to invade for power and more land

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Mussolini

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Took over Italy in 1922; facism

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Fascism

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Strong centralized gov; dominant party in Italy at that time

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Hitler

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Germany; “fuhrer” or leader, nazism, wrote “mein kampf” or my struggle

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Hirohito

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Emperor of Japan, served for 62 years,

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Who was the prime minister of Japan

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Hideki Tojo

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When did Japan invade Manchuria

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1931

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When did Italy invade Ethiopia

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1975

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When did Germany invade Rhineland

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1936

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Why did Germany invade Rhineland

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It was an Area of Germany that got taken away in World War I, and butler wanted it back

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Spains civil war

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1936-1939; loyalists (loyal to the current gov) vs fascists

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Who was the leader of the fascists in Spain?

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Francisco Franco

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What was the U.S’s response to ww2

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Isolationism

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Why did the US choose isolationism in the beginning of WW2

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WW1, Depression, debts owed to the us by allies

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Nye committee

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Created to be able to look at other countries news

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Neutrality act

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Banned a sell of weapons to nations were at war

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Ludlow amendment

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1937, gave them American people the right to go on whether or not to go to war

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Where was Sudetenland

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Czechoslovakia

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Neville chamberlain

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Prime minister in Great Britain

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Danzig corridor
Strip of land in Poland that separated Germany
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Nonaggression pact
Soviet Union and Germany agreed not to attack each other and they were both going to invade Poland
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When did Germany invade Poland
September 1, 1939
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Blitzkrieg
"Lightning war", heavy swift fighting w/ tanks
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When did Great Britain and France declare war on Germany
September 3, 1939
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Maginot line
We're British and French troops got ready
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Was evacuation strategy of Dunkirk
Operation dynamo
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Winston Churchill
New G B prime minister, he wanted to fight hitler
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Eagle squadron
Volunteer American pilots who joined the great Britain airport to help out with the war
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Holocaust
Nazi Elimination of 6 million Jews
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Genocide
Systematic destruction of a people based on religion race ethnicity nationality and sexual preference on an unmatched scale
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Who was exterminated in the holocaust
Gypsies Slavs homosexuals and disabled
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How many people died in the extermination process of the holocaust
9 to 10 million people
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What was a Slav
A person from Poland Belarus or the Ukraine
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Nürnberg laws
Laws that stripped away rights to Jews citizenship in Germany
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Kristallnact
Night of the broken glass, destroyed everything to do with Jews in Germany
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Gestapo
Germany secret police, brutal
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Einsatzgruppen
Mobile killing squads, followed the German army into conquered lands and killed the Jews
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SS
Protection squad, elite personnel in the army
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Final solution
Extermination of Jews through gas
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Wannsee conference
Nazis meet to plan to exterminate Jews with gas
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Cheimno
Vans designed to pump fumes into the van to kill Jews
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Concentration camp
Forced slave labor
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Extermination camp
Killed only
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Joseph mengele
Preferred medical experience
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Nürnberg trials
Nazi war criminals put on trial
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Axis powers
Germany Italy and Japan
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Allies
Britain France Russia and the US
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Selective service and training act 1940
Nations first peacetime draft
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Election of 1940
Roosevelt defeats windell Wilke for his third term
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Lend lease act1941
US could lend weapons to countries who needed it at war
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Atlantic charter
FDR and Churchhill had a secret talk for the plan to conduct operations for world war two
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Reuben James
US naval to store hit by a German U-boat, killed 100 sailors
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Export control act
Give US the right to restrict materials sold to countries such as oil to Japan
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Yamamoto
Admiral of Japanese Navy that would plan attack at Pearl Harbor
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What was the Japanese route for Pearl Harbor
They went north so they could be detected
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US codebreakers
People try to break Japanese cut before Pearl Harbor
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Husband kimmel
Head of Navy at Pearl Harbor
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Walter short
Head of army at pearl harbor
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War warning
Aggressive move by Japan expected in the next few days
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USS ward
Blew up Japanese submarine at entrance to Pearl Harbor
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Where did the first wave of bombs hit at Pearl Harbor
Battleship row
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Where did the second wave of bombs hit at Pearl Harbor
The airfields
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When did the attack of Pearl Harbor occur
December 7, 1941
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Jeanette Rankin
Only congressman to go against going to war