ww2 begins Flashcards
what group of three was known as the axis powers?
japan, italy, and germany
fascism
an aggressive nationalistic movement that considered the nation more important than the individual
what title did mussolini take as the leader of italy?
title of IL duece
who took power after lenin died in 1924?
stalin
what does ussr stand for?
union of soviet socialist republics
while hitler was in prison what book did he write?
mein kampf
aryans
germans, who were particularly blond, blue-eyed belonged to a “master race”
the lower house of the german parliment
reichstag
hitler gave himself the new title of what
der fuhrer or “the leader”
The invasion of Nanking became known as the
“Raping of Nanking”
giving in to unjust demands in order to avoid all-out conflict.
Appeasement
Slovakia became independent in name, but it was under whose control
germany
Hitler demanded the city of ______ to be returned to German control a month after the Munich Conference.
Danzig
blitzkrieg
“lightening war”
Luftwaffe
battled the British Royal Air Force in what became known as the Battle of Britain
The act made it illegal for Americans to sell arms to any country at war.
NEUTRALITY ACT of 1935.
FDR listed the four freedoms that the us and britian and stood for
Freedom of speech
Freedom of worship
Freedom from want
Freedom from fear
Lend-Lease Act
which allowed the US to lend or lease arms to any country considered “vital to the defense of the US”
hitler became the leader of what
He became the leader of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party or Nazi Party
On January 20, 1942, Nazi leaders met at the ______ to coordinate the “final solution of the Jewish question.”
the Wannsee Conference
numeremberg laws
took citizenship away from Jewish Germans and banned marriage between Jews and other Germans
concentration camp
was a camp where persons are detained or confined
Extermination camps
where men, women, and children were sent to be executed
holocaust
was the mass extermination of millions of European Jews
