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Pre-WWII Review
A review of events and people before WWII
| Definition | Term |
|---|---|
| Political ideology in which the nation and race are more important than individuals | Fascist |
| Complete control by the leader | Totalitarian |
| Policy in which one gives in to demands to keep from getting into confrontations | Appeasement |
| Lightning-War | Blitzkrieg |
| Leader of the Nazi Party | Adolf Hitler |
| Leader of Italian Fascist Party | Benito Mussolini |
| War where Axis Powers tested their weapons against Communists | Spanish Civil War |
| Who were the original Axis Powers? | Italy and Germany |
| The name of the Third German Empire | Third Reich |
| Laws passed in the United States during the 1930's in an attempt to keep the country out of war | The Neutrality Acts |
| The air war between Germany and Great Britain | Battle of Britain |
| A belief that the United States should become involved in the European War | Interventionists |
| The belief that the United States should stay out of the European War | Isolationists |
| The law passed that allowed the peacetime draft in the 1930's | The Selective Service Act |
| The law that was passed that allowed military supplies to be lent, leased, or sold to any country that was vital to the defense of the United States | Lend-Lease Act |
| This International Agreement set the stage for the United Nations | Atlantic Charter |
| a "date which will live in infamy | "Attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec |
| Victory with no concessions accepted from your enemies | Unconditional Surrender |
| A war in which civilians are treated the same as the military | Total War |
| Great Britain's leader who stood up to Hitler | Winston Churchill |
| French Leader who followed policy of appeasement | Premier Edouard Daladier |
| Great Britain's leader who followed policy of appeasement | Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain |
| Massive effort to pull English and French forces off of the Continent and back to Great Britain | Dunkirk |
| Government in France set up by Hitler to work with Hitler | Vichy France |
| Largest and best organized group in US that tried to keep us out of WWII | America First Committee |
| Term used by FDR, meant US would supply the countries fighting the dictators in WWII | Arsenal of Democracy |
| Policy where countries could buy war materials from US if they shipped the goods themselves | Cash and Carry |
| French fortifications on German Border | Maginot Line |
| Great Britain signed over islands in Caribbean for US Ships | Destoyers for Bases |
| A derogatory nickname for arms munition companies after WWI | Merchants of Death |
| 1937 speech by FDR, urged aggressor nations be isolated until they stop their actions | Quarantine Speech |
| Boundary changes to countries through force will not be honored. | Stimson Doctrine |
| US refused sale of good that could be used for war to Japan. | Export Control Act of 1940 |
| Period of time between WWII being declared and major fighting taking place. | Phony War |
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