Chapter 12 WWII Flashcards
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Fascism
Italian political parties that combines nationalism, racism, and worship of violent action- Mussolini the leader
Nazism
Leader hitler- believed Germans were superior to all. Hated Jews
Appeasement
Giving into demands of the enemy to avoid war
Sudetenland
City in Czechoslovakia- hitler annexed because they were German speaking
Munich conference
Agreement of France and GB to hand over sudetenland
Kristallnacht
Night of broken glass- Germans invaded Jews and attacked, arrested, and sent them to concentration camps
Soviet pact
Hitler signs a secrete treaty with Joseph Stalin(Soviet leader) to invade and divide Poland
Blitzkrieg
Lightning war- Germany used planes, tanks and radio tech to invade Denmark and Norway then Netherlands, Belgium Luxembourg, and france