ch.30 and 31
About this set
Created by:
prashanthi1212 on April 20, 2011
Log in to favorite or report as inappropriate.
Order by
56 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 italian invasion | mussolini attacks ethiopia in 1935 |
| anschluss | germany's union with austria |
| sudetenland | land between germany and france where no military is to take place |
| hitler | his nazi party promised to put german people back to work. he had a racist vision for the future in service of the aryan mass |
| totalitarianism | a type of government that exercised massive,direct control over virtually all the activities of its subjects |
| falange | fascist party |
| tojo hideki | leader of japan who followed the same ideals as mussolini and hitler |
| axis powers | the linkage between berlin,rome,and tokyo |
| national socialist party | led by hitler; picked up political support during the economic chaos of great depression; advocated authoriarian state under single leader |
| hitler's rise to power | hitler rose to power through the national socialist party. he also combined his ideals with mussolini and hideki in the idea of fascism/nazism |
| benito mussolini | italian fascist leader after world war i; created first fascist government based on aggressive foreign policy and nationalist glory |
| spanish civil war | germany and italy supported the royalists; the soviet union supported the republicans; the royalist forces won |
| tripartite pact | the alliance between japan,germany,and italy |
| nonaggression pact | hitler signed a pact with the soviet union for the soviet union gaining part of poland on september i,1939 brough the british and french to declare war on germany |
| blitzkrieg | lightning warfare; involved rapid movement of aiplanes,tanks, and mechanized troop carriers |
| henri petain | leader of french collaboration government establied in 104- in soutern france following defeatt of french armies by german |
| final solution | the destruction rather than the removal of the jewish people |
| normandy invasion | On 6 June 1944 the Western Allies landed in northern France, opening the long-awaited "Second Front" against Adolf Hitler's Germany. Though they had been fighting in mainland Italy for some nine months, the Normandy invasion was in a strategically more important region, setting the stage to drive the Germans from France and ultimately destroy the National Socialist regime. |
| battle of the bulge | hitler's last ditch effort to repel the inading allied armies in the winter of 1944-1945 |
| douglas mcarthur | was America's senior military commander in the Far East during World War Two. MacArthur found fame as the officer who led America's withdrawal from the Philippines with the quote "I shall return". It was a promise that Douglas MacArthur was to fulfill. |
| george patton | was a United States Army officer best known for his leadership while commanding corps and armies as a general during World War II. He was also well known for his eccentricity and controversial outspokenness. |
| lemay | in charge of american air operations ordered mass aerial bombardment of highly vulnerable japanese cities |
| eisenhower | prepared landings in northern france that would carry the war into the fortress of the nazis |
| russia in 1942 | german forces drove deep into russia in the spring of |
| peace treaty | the establishment of the united nations |
| members of the un | the united states,soviet union,britain,france,and china |
| zionists | the united states and britain were zionists who insised that jews have their own homeland |
| apartheid | policy of strict racial segregation imposed in south africa to permit the continued dominance of whites politically and economically |
| algerian independence | won their independence in 1962 after a bitter civil war |
| 1980 | the end of african colonization |
| atlantic charter | world war ii alliance agreement between the united states and britain; included a clause that recognized the right of all people to choose the form of government under which hey live; indicated sympathy for decolonization |
| marshall plan | programof substanial loans iniated by the united states in rebuilding from the wars devastation |
| truman doctrine | directed against communist pressures on greece and turkey |
| soviet provinces | latvia,lithania,and estonia |
| iron curtain | phrase coined by winston churchill to describe the divide between free and communist societies taking shape in europe |
| center for cold war | soviet union |
| eastern bloc | nations fovorable to the soviet union in eastern europe during the cold war-particularly poland,czechoslovakia,bulgaria,romania,hungary,and east germany |
| marshall plan | program of substantial loans initiated by the united states in 1947; designed to aid western nations in rebuilding from the war's deevastation; vehicle for american economic dominance |
| us military | us military units were stationed in europe on either side of cold war divide |
| christian democrats | wanted democratic institutions and moderate social reforms |
| federal republic of germany | france,britain,and the united states merged into this which would avoid the mistakes of earlier western republic |
| welfare state | new activism of the western european state in economic policy and welfare issues after world war ii; introduced programs to reduce the impat of economic inequality |
| technocrat | new type of bureaucrat; intensely trained in engineering or economics and devoted to the power of national planning; came to fore in offices of governments following world war ii |
| green movement | political parties,especially in europe, focusing on environmental issues and control over economic growth |
| margaret thatcher | in 1979 british conservative leader who began the longest running prime ministership in 20th century; worked to cut welfare and housing expenses and to promote free enterprise |
| 1950 economy | agricultural production; expensive consumer products support growing factories; center of weapon production. through the european union,tariffs were reduced among member nations |
| agricultual production | production increased rapidly, as peasant farmers,backed by technocrats adopted new equipment and seeds; less efficient than north america |
| women's rights | from the early 1950s the number of working women steadily increase, improved work qualifications; growing employment of women; of the western nations, switzerland wa the only one who refused women's voting rights. gains in higher education were considerable; access to divorce and birth control |
| simon de beauvoir | a french intellectual in 1949 who published the second sex |
| betty friedan | a united states femist leader who wrote the feminine mystique |
| western ideals | advances in scientific field in postwar years; nuclear research; arts maintaine the theme of self expression and nonreperesentational techniques |
| solidarity | polish labor movement formed in 1970s under lech walesa; challenged ussr dominated government of poland |
| orthodox | the tsarist regime declared war on the orthodox church and other religions after 1917, seeking to shape a secular population that would maintain a marxist, scientific orthodoxy. although the new regime did not attempt to abolish the orthodox church |
| alexander solzhenitsyn | russian author critial of the soviet regime but also of western materialism; published trilogy on the siberian prison camps, the gulog archipelago |
| soviet economy | rapid growth of manufacturing; state control of virtuallly all exonomic sectors; lagged behind in the priorities it placed on consumer goods |
| nikita khruschev | stalin's successor as head of ussr from 1953 to 1964; attacked stalinism in 1956 fro concentration of power and arbitrary dictorship; failure of siberian development program and antagonism of stalinists led to downfall |
First Time Here?
Welcome to Quizlet, a fun, free place to study. Try these flashcards, find others to study, or make your own.