chapter 16 Flashcards

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totalitarianism

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governmental system
exerts total control over its people
individuals have no rights government suppresses all opposition

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Benito Mussolini

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establish totalitarian regime in Italy

played on fears that Italy would turn communist; turned fascist

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Joseph Stalin

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took control of Soviet Union
abolished all forms of private ownership
transformed Soviet Union from backwards country to industrial powerhouse

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Fascism

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extreme nationalism, controlled by a dictator,

placed interests of the state above individual needs.

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Nazism

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German brand of fascism.

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lebensraum

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Means living space.

Securing the land and soil with which to feed, house, grow the German race.

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Francisco Franco

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Fascist leader of Spain,

leader of the Spanish Civil War.

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Isolationism

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American foreign policy before and after World War I,

meant to keep America out of world political crises.

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Neutrality Acts

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Series of Acts meant to enforce isolationism,

outlawed arms sales or loans to countries at war.

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Neville Chamberlain

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British Prime Minister before World War II who signed the Munich Pact.

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Winston Churchill

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Opposition leader in Great Britain,

called the Munich Agreement “appeasement” and condemned it.

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Appeasement

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Giving up principles to pacify an aggressor.

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Nonaggression Pact

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Agreement between Germany and Soviet Union to never attack one another.

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Blitzkrieg

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Lightening War.
Strategy by Germany
use advances in technology to take the enemy by surprise and crush opposition with overwhelming force.

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Phony War

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German, British, French troops mass along French border and wait for war.

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Charles de Gaulle

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French General

fled to Britain and set up government in exile.

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Battle of Britain

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Air war for control of Britain.

Germany bombed British cities day and night to force surrender.

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Holocaust

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Systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe.

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Kristallnacht

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Night of broken glass.

Beginning of the roundup of the Jews in Germany.

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Final Solution

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Policy of genocide,

deliberate and systematic extermination of the Jews, Gays, Gypsies and political opposition.

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Concentration Camps

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Labor camps where Jews and other undesirables were sent.

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Tripartite Pact

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Mutual defense treaty signed by Germany, Italy and Japan.

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Selective Service Act

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allowed for training and drafting of men in the United States.

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Arsenal of Democracy

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US Military aid for Great Britain and the Soviet Union in the early stages of WWII.

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Cash and Carry
Allows warring nations to buy U.S. arms as long as they paid cash and carried them in their own ships.
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Lend Lease Agreement
U.S. to lend or lease arms to nations whose defense is vital to the United States safety.
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Atlantic Charter
Joint declaration of war aims by the US and Britain.
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Hideki Tojo
Japanese military leader in charge of Japan.
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December 7, 1941
Date Japan bombs Pearl Harbor. | US enters the war against Japan and Germany.
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Why does Germany turn to Adolf Hitler
War debts, reliance on U.S. loans, 6 million unemployed, Treaty of Versailles
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Black Shirts
Italy. | The Black shirts enforced Mussolini’s viewpoints at gunpoint many times
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Union with Germany | Anschluss
The world did nothing to prevent this | Majority of Austria’s people, 6 million, were Germans who favored
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Chelmno
first death camp set up in 1941
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Night
Elie Wiesel's boon | described life in the concentration camps of the Nazis
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What percent of Polands Jewish population was exterminated
90%
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Which countries did cash and carry benefit
Great Britain France Soviet Union
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What pulls the US into the war
Pearl Harbor
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Arsenal of democracy
The US | supplied most of the weapons to defeat the Axis powers
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Goals set by the charter 5 3
``` Collective Security Self-determination Disarmament Economic Cooperation Freedom of the Seas ```
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Radar
Used in battle of britian to defeat luftwaffe
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What was the most important area for Japan to conquer if they wished to maintain a military after 1941?
The Philippines. They were the largest source of oil in the region we cut off their supplies, they needed the resource to maintain their military presence in the Pacific.