Ch. 29-World War II
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Heavy Industry | ( making machinery, tools and machines) Stalin's most impressive accomplishment in his 5 year plans |
| Invasion of Soviet Union | The best example of Hitler's unlimited ambition |
| Themes of Mein Kampf | living space, a leader dictator, race and fanatic masses |
| Nuremberg Laws | Jews lost their right of citizenship |
| Occupation of Czechoslovakia | First act of agression that could not be justified by self-determination. |
| Hatred of Liberalism | Common theme amongst regimes of Germany, Italy and Russia |
| Urging Italian entry into WWI | Reason for Mussolini expulsion from Italian Socialist Party |
| Elements of fascism | a dynamic leader, alliance with capitalists, nationalism, glorification of war |
| Grand Alliance principles | win in Europe first, unconditional surrender for Germany, aid to Russia and Britain |
| German Chancellor Bruning | tried cutting down government spending and limiting wages and prices |
| Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP) | attempt to reach a compromise with Russian peasants |
| Lateran Agreement | insured support of the Catholic Church for Mussolini in Italy |
| The Final Solution | the attempted extermination of 6,000,000 European Jews by the Nazis |
| Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact | stated that neither side would attack the other in the event of war and would split Eastern Europe |
| Hitler's popularity | based on greater equality and social mobility for Germans, growing profits for business, high employment and rising wages and successes in foreign policy |
| Battle of Britain | battles fought by the Germans through the air in an effort to defeat the British |
| Stalin | architect of the Great Purges |
| Marshall Petain | head of the Vichy government that made peace with the Nazis |
| Halevy | historian who pointed out the differences between the fascist states |
| Goldhagen | most Germans were supporters of the Final Solution |
| Socialism in one country | Stalin's idea that the revolution should limit itself to Russia |
| Stalin's decision to limit collectivization | example of successful resistance of Russian peasants to collectivization |
| Objectives of Stalin's 5 year plan | stamp out small businesses, catch up with the West, get capital from the peasants, to make ethnic groups more "Russian" |
| Fall of parliamentary government in Italy | Result of socialist workers seizing control of factories |
| Creation of a generation of communists loyal to Stalin | One of the consequences of the Great Purges |
| Kulaks | the more successful peasants |
| National Socialism | a path between capitalism and socialism directed primarily at middle classes by Hitler |
| Enabling Act | Gave Hitler dictatorial powers as the result of the Reichstag fire and dirty politics |
| Abundant housing | shortage suffered by Soviet workers |
| Trotsky | Stalin's rival who believed in world-wide revolution |
| Black Shirts | violent followers of Mussolini |
| Nazi invasion of Danzig | final move by Hitler that convinced France and Britain that they had to go to war with Germany |
| Slavic Race | peoples considered subhuman by Hitler and only above the Jews in contempt |
| Blitzkreig | Hitler's lightning war strategy |
| Himmler | infamous Nazi leader of their SS troops |
| Kristallnacht | night of "Breaking Glass", a strategy aimed at harassing Jews in Germany |
| New Order | the master race as described by Hitler |
| Appeasement | giving in to Hitler's demands to avoid war |
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