World War II Flashcards
(27 cards)
_______ founded Italy’s Fascist movement
Mussolini
_______was an aggressive nationalistic movement that considered the nation more important than the individual.
Fascism
Fascism was also very_______.
Anti-communist
Mussolini was also known as _______.
El Duce
_______ were government owned farms
Collectives
Nazi was the_______
National Socialists German Workers’ Party.
Hitler wrote the book called _______.
Mein Kampf
he believed that there was a master race known as_____.
Aryans
At the _________ Britain and France agreed to Hitler’s demands and policies that became known as Appeasement.
Munich Conference
________ is giving in to unjust demands in order to avoid all-out conflict.
Appeasement
German warfare known was known as _________ or Lightning War
blitzkrieg
German Air force was known as _________.
Luftwaffe
The _______ report documented the huge profits that arms factories had made during the war and had created the impression that these businesses influenced the decision to go to war.
Nye committee
The ______ of 1935 made it illegal for Americans to sell arms to any country at war.
Neutrality Act
Japan, Italy, and Germany were known as the ______.
Axis Power.
The _________ wanted the repeal of the neutrality laws and stronger actions against Germany.
Fight for Freedom Committee
The ________ opposed any intervention to help the Allies.
America First Committee
The ________ allowed the United States to lend or lease arms to any country considered “vital to the defense of the UNited states.
Land-lease Act
The_________ committed both nations to a postwar world of democracy, nonaggression, free trade, economic advancement, and freedom of the seas.
Atlantic Charter
________ were items important for fighting in war
Strategic materials
Japan Surprise attacked Pearl Harbor on _________.
December 7, 1941.
The ________ was the mass extermination millions of European Jews.
Holocaust
_______ is the Hebrew term for Holocaust meaning Catastrophe
Shoah
_______ were where men, women, and children were sent to be executed.
Extermination camps