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WWII RWD
Study these words for your upcoming WWII test
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Third Reich: | The official name given by the Nazi party for its regime in Germany from 1933 - 1945. |
| Fascism: | A system of government in which a dictator has complete power and the state is seen as more important than the individuals within it. |
| Anti-Semitism | Hostility or prejudice against followers of Judaism. |
| Lebensraum: | “Living space” - this idea was the driving force behind the Third Reich’s military conquests as well as their discriminatory and violent racial policies. |
| Appeasement: | The policy of giving in to an aggressive nations demands in an effort to avoid conflict.- Neville Chamberlain |
| Nazi-Soviet Pact: | August 1939- Hitler and Stalin agreed to attack and divide Poland; after that they would not be allies or enemies. **Non-Aggression Pact |
| Blitzkrieg: | “Lightning War”A military tactic used by the Germans against Poland, involved quick moving continuous attacks against the enemy. |
| Refugee: | A person who flees his or her homeland to seek safety elsewhere. |
| Final Solution: | The Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews, it was introduced by Heinrich Himmler and resulted in the genocide of 6 million followers of Judaism. |
| Waffen SS: | An elite part of Hitler’s Schutzstaffel (SS). It began as Hitler’s private security and grew into a fanatical fighting force of nearly 1 million. |
| Unconditional Surrender: | Demanded by the United States and issued to Japan; a surrender in which no guarantees are made to the surrendering nation. |
| United Nations: | An international peacekeeping organization formed in 1945 to provide a place to discuss world problems and develop solutions. |
| Nuclear Proliferation | The spread of nuclear weapons, nuclear technology, fissionable material and nuclear weapons- making information to the countries that do not possess these. |
| Cold war: | A continuing state of tension and hostility between UAS and USSR after 1945 because of political and economic philosophes. |
| Containment: | A Cold War policy that called for containing Communism to areas where it already existed; proposed by Harry Truman. |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization; a multinational military alliance to which the U.S belongs, formed at the end of WWII as a response to Communism during the Cold War. |
| Warsaw Pact | a military alliance between the soviet union and it’s satellite states formed as a response to nato in 1955. |
| Iron Curtain: | A term popularized by Winston Churchill - the “Iron Curtain” isolated Eastern European Communist nations from Democratic nations in Western Europe. |
| Satellite: | A country that is economically and politically dependent on a more powerful country. During the Cold War the USSR had 7 satellite states. |
| Domino Theory | A Cold War policy of the United States that suggested that a communist government in one nation would quickly lead to communist takeovers in neighboring countries. |
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