Chapter 24: WWII: The Road to War
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 nazism | _____ started to become powerful in Germany in 1936 at the Nuremberg Party Rally. It was founded by Hitler. |
| totaltarian government | _____- exerts total control over a nation in every aspect of the government. |
| fascism | Italy's leader Benito Mussolini'l government was called _____. It was the same thing as Hitlers nazism. |
| communist | Joseph Stalin's _____ government in Russia was much like fascism being that it did not respect individual rights and freedoms. |
| fascism | _____- emphasizes the importance of the nation or an ethnic group and the supreme authority of the leader. |
| Lenin; industrial | Stalin took over for _____ after he died and put 5 million laborers into labor camps in Siberia and Northern Russia. Under Stalin, the Russia standard of living declined but it did become an _____ power. |
| purges | _____- process of removing enemies and undesirable individuals from political power. |
| 7; Soviet Union | Stalin arrested __ million people in a purge of the _____. |
| Il Dulce | Stalins nickname was _____ (the leader). |
| Blackshirts | Fascists were called "_____" because of their dress. |
| Addis Ababa | Mussolini invaded the Northern African country of Ethiopia and took over its capital, _____, in 1936. |
| Mein Kampf; Aryan | In 1923 Hitler tried to overthrow the German government. He failed and was thrown in jail. Hitler wrote his autobiography "_____ (My Struggle)" while in prison. He blamed the Jews for the German economic problems and set up his so-called master race, the "_____" race for blonde, blue-eyed Germans. |
| chancellor | Hitler became _____, or head, of the German government in 1932. |
| storm troopers or Brownshirts | The Nazi thugs were called _____. |
| Hindenburg; Der Fuhrer | Hitler was appointed chancellor by President _____. When Hindenburg died Hitler became _____ (the leader). |
| autobahn | _____- network of highways in Germany. |
| Rhineland | Hitler first took the _____ in his own country and remilitarized it. |
| Axis Powers | Italy, Germany, and Japan joined together and became known as the _____. |
| Austria; Sudetenland | Hitler then took over the country of _____ and the _____ in western Czechoslovakia. |
| appeasement | _____- giving in to a competitor's demands in order to keep peace. |
| Chamberlain; Daladier | The leader of England, _____, and the leader of France, _____, allowed Hitler to take this land. |
| Franco; International Brigades | Spain had a Civil War and the Nationalists, led by _____, set up a military dictatorship. The Republicans, backed by the _____, lost the Civil War. |
| Churchill; Albania | _____, a member of the British Parliament, said that Hitler must be confronted or he would just go on takig European land. 6 months later, Germany took the rest of Czechoslovakia and Italy took _____. |
| Poland | After Germany invaded _____, England and France declared war on Germany. |
| Stali; Non-Agression Pact | Hitler and _____ signed a 10-year _____ where they promised not to go to war against one another. |
| blitzkrieg | _____- German warfare. It was a new military tactic of a fast, concentrated air and land attack that took the enemy by surprise. |
| Poland | _____ was taken by the Germans in less than a month. |
| Maginot Line; a) it protected only part of the French border that faced Germany, leaving France open to attack through Belgium. b) the French guns only pointed east toward Germany. If Germany got around the line, the guns would be useless. | The _____ was a massive string of fortifications along France's border with Germany. THere were elaborate protection devices. The French, however, had two major problems: |
| Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg | Germany then took _____. Then they attacked France. |
| 340,000 | The Germans then drove the British and French troops to Dunkirk, France but amazingly _____ soldiers managed to escape across the English Channel in a remarkable boatlift that probably saved the war for the Allies. |
| Luftwaffe | _____- German air force. |
| 3/5; Pe'tain | Hitler took France in 1940. Germany took __ of France and set up a puppet government under General _____ and collaborated with the Germans. |
| Collaboration | _____- close cooperation. |
| Charles de Gaulle | The French were under control of _____. He led his country while he was in England in exile. |
| French Resistance | The _____ was an underground organization of Frenchmen who worked against the Germans after Germany took over France. |
| Allies | The _____ were England, France, the U.S., and the Soviet Union. |
| Battle of Britian; 1,000 | In 1940, the _____ was the largest air battle in the history of mankind. Germany bombed England all of August and September. Sometimes _____ planes dropped bombs every day. |
| the Blitz | The bombing of London was called "_____" and lasted until May, 1941. |
| RAF | The _____ was the British airforce which fought bravely to save London. |
| Japan; Depression; radicals | After WWI, _____ tried democracy but because of the _____, their economy went downhill. That and the fact that they were forced to reduce their military made some Japanese support _____. |
| Manchuria; Manchurian Incident | Japan took over _____ in 1932 militarily. They shocked the rest of the world and it became known as the _____. |
| Manchukuo; puppet state | Manchuria was re-named _____. Manchukuo was a _____ (an independent country under the control of a powerful neighbor). |
| military; civil | Japanese _____ people intimidated the _____ government and actually one time killed the Prime Minister. |
| China | Japan attacked _____ in 1937 and after many years of fighting, the war became a stalemate. |
| Burma Road | The _____ was a 700-mile-long highway linking Burma to China. The British sent supplies to China over the highway. |
| Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere | The _____ was Japan's way to take control of the area by saying that they were liberating Asia from European colonies. This was really a way for Japan to get the raw materiials it needed to fight China. |
| Tripartite Pact | _____- was a pact made among Japan, Italy, and Germany. |
| isolationist | The U.S. clung to our _____ policy during the Depression. |
| Neutrality Acts | In the mid 1930's, the U.S. passed a series of _____ to try to keep us out of war. |
| cash and carry | _____- allowed U.S. merchants to trade nonmilitary goods with warring countries as long as they paid cash and transported the goods themselves. |
| America First Committee; Charles Lindbergh | _____ believed in isolationism and did not want to help the Allies. _____ was a member. |
| Wendell Willkies | In 1940, Roosevelt defeated _____ in the presidential election of 1940. |
| Lend-Lease Act | _____- authorized the president to aid any nation whose defense he believed was vital to American security. We gave $49 billion to 40 countries. |
| iron and steel | The U.S. cut off selling scrap _____ to Japan in 1940. |
| Tijo Hideki | General _____ took over as Prime Minister of Japan and he supported war against the U.S. |
| Pearl Harbor; December 7, 1941 | The Japanese attacked _____, a naval base in Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, on _____. |
| 2400; 200; 18; 8 of 9 | 180 Japanese planes, in less than 2 hours, killed _____ Americans, destroyed over _____ war planes, _____ warships, and _____ battleships were sunk. |
| a date which will live in infamy | Roosevelt's famous quote was "_____". |
| Jeanette Rankin | The U.S. declared war on Japan and the only person to vote against war was _____ of Montana. |
| December 11, 1941 | On _____, Germany and Italy declared war on the U.S. |
| 29 | The Japanese only lost ___ planes. |
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