| Question |
Answer |
| Anti-semitism |
Hatred of Jews |
| Appeasment |
The policy of giving in to the demands of an aggressor in order to maintain peace |
| Adolf Hitler |
fascist dictator of Germany from 1933-1945 |
| Benito Mussolini |
Founder of the Fascist party in 1919, promised to rescue Italy by reviving its economy and rebuilding its armed forces |
| Coalition Government |
A government controlled by a temporary alliance or political parties |
| Emperor Hirohito |
Japanese head of state 1930-1945 |
| Fascism |
An ideology that stresses nationalism and dictatorship and places that strength of the state above the welfare of individual citizens |
| Francisco Franco |
Leader of the Fascist-style government in the 1936 Spanish civil war. Hitler and Mussolini sent troops, tanks, and airplanes to help Franco’s forces |
| Gestapo |
Nazi secret police |
| Great Depression |
The severe economic slump that followed the collapse of the stock market in 1929, characterized by rising unemployment rates and falling wages and prices |
| Isolationism |
A policy of avoiding political or military involvement in other countries |
| Lebensraum |
“Living Space”-The extra space, according to Hitler, Germany needed because it was too crowded. He promised to get that space by conquering eastern Europe and Russia |
| Mein Kampf |
“My Struggle”-A book written by Adolf Hitler during his imprisonment (1923-1924) in which he set forth his beliefs and his goals for Germany |
| Munich Conference |
A 1938 meeting of representatives from Britain, France, Italy, and Germany at which Britain and France agreed to allow Nazi Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia in return for Adolf Hitler’s pledge to respect Czechoslovakia’s new borders |
| New Deal |
U.S. President, Franklin Roosevelt’s economic reform program designed to solve the problems created by the Great Depression. |
| Nazism |
The fascist policies of the National Socialist German Worker’s Party, based on totalitarianism |
| SS |
Schutzstaffel or protection squad, members were loyal only to Hitler, the SS arrested and murdered hundreds of Hitler’s enemies |
| Third Reich |
The Third German Empire developed by Adolf Hitler in the 1930’s |
| Weimar Republic |
1919-1933, Germany’s new democratic government |
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