IB Unit 4 Quiz #4 Flashcards
(20 cards)
Encirclement
Denied Germans from requiring “living room”…
- Before both world wars
- policy of other European countries that Germany claimed
- prevented German expansion
- Denying right to acquire “living room”.
Mukden Incident (1931)
Japanese Soliders disguising as Chinese as an excuse to…
- AKA: Manchurian Incident
- “Chinese” attack on a Japanese railway
- near city of Mukden
- Japanese soldiers disguised as Chinese
- used as an excuse to seize Manchuria (Japan)
Invasion of Manchuria (1931)
Invasion on Chinese territory motivated by the desire of…
- The Japanese
- need for raw materials
- desire to take over Chinese territory
- invaded the province of Manchuria
- held territory until the end of the war
Lytton Report
- A report
- Made by League of Nations
- try to determine the causes of the Manchurian Incident
- condemned Japan for resorting to force.
- Japan withdrew from the league and kept Manchuria.
Manchukuo
Japanese puppet state
Made in Manchuria (1931)
Totalitarianism
Form of gov in which the ruler is a total …
Form of government: Ruler is a total dictator
Definiton: not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition
Communism
A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.
Joseph Stalin
Bolshevik revolutionary, head of the Soviet Communists after 1924, and dictator of the Soviet Union from 1928 to 1953. He led the Soviet Union with an iron fist, using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition
Great Terror
Stalin’s set of “purges,” killed off all the old Bolsheviks for fear of them being a threat to his absolute power, then he liquidated over 40,000 army officers, and at the end of his life, he killed Jewish doctors out of superstition
Benito Mussolini
Fascist dictator of Italy (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia (1935), joined Germany in the Axis pact (1936), and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy.
Blackshirts
Members of Italian fascists before WWII. It was led by Mussolini. Helped solidify Mussolini’s control
Spazio Vitale
“living Space” was part of the territorial expansion plan of Italian fascism.
Mutilated Victory
The feeling in Italy that she hadn’t gained all she deserved in the aftermath of WWI, even though she had gained almost all of what was promised at the Treaty of London 1915. Didn’t gain Dalmatia, Fiume, African/Middle Eastern colonies
March on Rome
Fascist coup in 1922 in which a mob of Blackshirts and Mussolini supporters march to Rome and displaces King Victor Emmaneul and establishes Mussolini as leader of Italy
Reichstag
The popularly elected lower house of government of the new German Empire after 1871.
Nazism
Adolf Hitler used fascism to create this type of government based on totalitarian ideas and was used to unite Germany during the 1930s; a form of fascism, based on social Darwinism, belief in racial superiority of Germans.
Mein Kampf
“My Struggle”-a book written by Adolf Hitler during his imprisonment in 1923-1924, in which he set forth his beliefs and his goals for Germany; highlights antisemitism and anti-Communism as the cores of his philosophy.
Antisemitism
hostility to, prejudice against, or hatred towards Jewish people.
November Criminals
term coined by the likes of Hitler to identify those associated with signing the Versailles Treaty and the establishment of the Weimar Republic.
Lebensraum
Hitler’s expansionist theory based on a drive to acquire “living space” for the German people in the east.
