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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 failures of treaty of versailles | caused anger and resentment Great depression weimar republic: no democratic tradtion and 100s of small partie |
| Nazis | members of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (old war vets) desperate for leadership adolf hitler |
| Adolf Hitler | dictator of Germany; Mein kampf (my sruggle) lebensraum aryan race unfair treaty |
| mein kampf | 'My Struggle' by hitler, later became the basic book of nazi goals and ideology, reflected obsession |
| Lebensraum | living space - Hitler's idea that Germany needed to expand. |
| Nazism | German brand of fascism |
| Nazis take power | nazi become strongest party hitler elected Chancellor established third reich der fuhrer |
| chancellor | prime minister |
| third reich | The Third German Empire, established by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. |
| der fuhrer | Hitler's title as leader of Nazi Germany |
| Stalin | Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition |
| totalitarianism | government control over every aspect of public and private life |
| Rise of fascicm in italy | king victor benito mussolini (leader) fasicim (nationalism on streiods) The national fascist party |
| new roman empire | imperialism ( italy didnt have good army ) ethipoia 1936 |
| jAPAN | EMPEROR HIROHITO (wants bloody war) miliatry leader seize imperial government led by prince tojo expand military empire need goods from other countries |
| bushido | traditional code of the Japanese samurai which stressed courage and loyalty and self-discipline and simple living; all males drafted and warn enemies before attack. |
| Japan invades china | 1937; clamied they needed their natural resources; liberating china from imperialism |
| Civil war in spain | 1936 , Francisco franco nazis help franco |
| Guernica | town that was brutally attacked during spanish cival war (Picasso Painting) |
| Nye Committee | banks and factories made big $ during WWI |
| America First committee | 1940 - Formed by die-hard isolationists who feared the U.S. going to war. |
| Neutrality Acts | outlawed arms sales or loans to nations at war; extended ban to nations in spanish civil war |
| Isolationism falls apart | Fdr senty arms to china despite neutrality act because japan did not declare war |
| nonaggression pact | 1939-Secret agreement between German leader Hitler and Soviet Leader Stalin not to attack one another and to divide Poland |
| anschluss | unification, union of Austria and Germany: took austria then sudetenland because he wants uranium |
| munich confrence | confrence in germany with england and france telling Hitler he can have the Sudetenland and thats it. |
| neville chamberlain | Prime Minister of Great Britain, made Munich Agreement with hitler; appeasment |
| appeasment | giving into demands to avoid war |
| hitler makes more demands | pieces taken after wwi DANZING POLAND CLEAR THAT APPEASMENT FAILED |
| Nazi invade poland | sept 1st 1939 blitzkerg lots of tanks and airforce luft waffe france/ britain declare war |
| blitzkerg | "lightening war" |
| Phony war | name for the preparations for war in the west before the Germans attacked; also called sitzkrieg |
| Maginot Line | a fortification built before World War II to protect France's eastern border |
| Fall of France | June 1940 France and most of Europe was conquered by Germany. Left Britain alone against Hitler |
| The Battle of Britian | britian won the air war over London and had air superiority- could now bomb Germany; saved them from being invaded; used V-1 rockets |
| Chuck yeager | the first pilot to fly at Mach I, the speed of sound; broke sound barrier |
| Royal Air Force | the airforce of Great Britain; RAF |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII |
| Operation Barbarossa | codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II.; June 1941 |
| Nuremburg Laws 1935 | Nazi laws that stripped Jews citizenship in Germany; took away bank accounts and stopped marriages; psuedo science |
| Kristallnacht | night of broken glass; planned attacks on jewish homes and bussiness |
| SS ST. Louis 1939 | people who escaped germany;1937 cuba usa canada reject them most died in final solution ( suicide) |
| American Excuses | went aganist quota system unemployment great depression anti- semitism |
| Wannsee Conference | Meeting in January,1942, where plans were worked out for the final solution; berlin; top nazi leaders |
| Schutzstaffel | SS; carried out Final Solution |
| Gestapo | the secret state police in Nazi Germany |
| Physical resistance | people fought back dropped bombs on soldier warsaw(poland) ghetto uprising |
| ghetto | formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live |
| Concentration Camps | prison camps used under the rule of Hitler in Nazi Germany. Conditions were inhuman, and prisoners, mostly Jewish people, were generally starved or worked to death, or killed immediately.; slept in barracks; polish gypsies soviet |
| Buchenwald | Concentration camp in Germany; largest and first camp |
| Auschwitz | a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in southwestern Poland during World War II; Works makes one free |
| Arimo Levi | Jewish Italian; Auschwitz |
| Elie Wiesel | wrote Night; Buchenwald |
| Attemps to Dehumanize | seperate from family items taken forced labor shaved heads prison uniforms unsanitary and overcrowded |
| Psychological Reference | wash in puddles learn german live in spite of them rituals remain sane relive past events |
| Shoah | Hebrew term for the Holocaust; meaning "catastrophe" |
| Neutrality Act of 1939 | European buy American munitions, only if they could pay in cash and transport them in their own ships. "Cash-and-Carry." It represented an effort to avoid war debts and protect American arms-carriers from torpedo attacks. (861) |
| FDR Memorial | freedom of speech freedom of worship freedom from want freedon from fear |
| Norman Rockwell | 1900s Realist who illustrated the Saturday Evening Post in the 60's |
| Lend - Lease Plan | US would lend or lease arms and other supplies to any country whose defense was vital to the US |
| The Tripartite Pact, 1940 | axis power: Germany italy japan |
| FDR third term | Ran against Willkie, and won election due to familiarity.; promised to stay out of war. still aid allies |
| Destroyers for Bases program 1940 | US destroyers for access to British bases |
| Atlantic Charter | Joint agreement between FDR and Churchill that defines war aims; FDR agrees to do anything to force incident |
| Japanese Empire Expand | Invades French Indochina (vietnam) |
| Oil and Iron embargo | us supplies japan with oil and iron |
| problems with us | emprero wants negotiate with us |
| Emperor Hirohito | emperor of Japan during WWII. his people viewed him as a god |
| Tojo | Japanese army officer who initiated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and who assumed dictatorial control of Japan during World War II; wanted war with US |
| Benito Mussolini | Italian fascist dictator (1883-1945); followed afte Hitler |
| Stalin | Leader of Russia during WWII |
| Yamamoto | Japanese admiral who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 (1884-1943) |
| 14 part note | sent beofre attacks; last part sent 30 mintues before attack did not mention specific location |
| Pearl harbor | base in hawaii that was bombed by japan on December 7, 1941, which eagered America to enter the war; japanese fly low to avoid radar; aircrafts off at practice and planes parked in one line |
| Tora Tora Tora! | (tiger tiger tiger) what the Japanese radioed back if the Pearl Harbor attack was a complete surprise to the Americans |
| Dorie Miller | Black cook at Pearl Harbor who shot down a couple of Japanese airplanes without any training.; |
| Attack on airfields | prevetn sabotage -> all palnes wiped out "a date that will live in infamy" fdr asks for war passed 388 to 1 |
| Jeannette Rankin | 1st woman elected to congress; voted against war resolution(pacifist) form pacifist, MT |
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