chapter 16 Flashcards
totalitarianism
governmental system
exerts total control over its people
individuals have no rights government suppresses all opposition
Benito Mussolini
establish totalitarian regime in Italy
played on fears that Italy would turn communist; turned fascist
Joseph Stalin
took control of Soviet Union
abolished all forms of private ownership
transformed Soviet Union from backwards country to industrial powerhouse
Fascism
extreme nationalism, controlled by a dictator,
placed interests of the state above individual needs.
Nazism
German brand of fascism.
lebensraum
Means living space.
Securing the land and soil with which to feed, house, grow the German race.
Francisco Franco
Fascist leader of Spain,
leader of the Spanish Civil War.
Isolationism
American foreign policy before and after World War I,
meant to keep America out of world political crises.
Neutrality Acts
Series of Acts meant to enforce isolationism,
outlawed arms sales or loans to countries at war.
Neville Chamberlain
British Prime Minister before World War II who signed the Munich Pact.
Winston Churchill
Opposition leader in Great Britain,
called the Munich Agreement “appeasement” and condemned it.
Appeasement
Giving up principles to pacify an aggressor.
Nonaggression Pact
Agreement between Germany and Soviet Union to never attack one another.
Blitzkrieg
Lightening War.
Strategy by Germany
use advances in technology to take the enemy by surprise and crush opposition with overwhelming force.
Phony War
German, British, French troops mass along French border and wait for war.
Charles de Gaulle
French General
fled to Britain and set up government in exile.
Battle of Britain
Air war for control of Britain.
Germany bombed British cities day and night to force surrender.
Holocaust
Systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe.
Kristallnacht
Night of broken glass.
Beginning of the roundup of the Jews in Germany.
Final Solution
Policy of genocide,
deliberate and systematic extermination of the Jews, Gays, Gypsies and political opposition.
Concentration Camps
Labor camps where Jews and other undesirables were sent.
Tripartite Pact
Mutual defense treaty signed by Germany, Italy and Japan.
Selective Service Act
allowed for training and drafting of men in the United States.
Arsenal of Democracy
US Military aid for Great Britain and the Soviet Union in the early stages of WWII.