| Question |
Answer |
| Mein kampf |
book by hitler in which he outlined his politics, literally, "my struggle" |
| fuhrer |
title taken by hitler in 1934 literally, "leader" |
| fascism |
a strong centralized government with a dictator |
| nazi party |
fascist political party founded by Hitler which ruled Germany from 1933-1945 |
| Hitler |
fascist leader of Germany |
| Gestapo |
Hitler's secret police |
| Mussolini |
fascist leader of Italy |
| Rome-Berlin Axis |
military alliance between Germany and Italy (1936) |
| Anschluss |
union between austria and germany |
| appeasement |
giving in to an aggressor to preserve peace |
| neville chamberlain |
british prime minister who followed a policy of appeasement |
| munich pact of 1938 |
germany would receive sudetenland in return for hitler's promise not to make any more territorial demands |
| winston churchill |
british prime minister who had warned britain not to trust hitler |
| nonaggression pact |
secret agreement between germany an soviet union not to fight one another |
| blitzkrieg |
lightning war-sudden, swift, massive attack |
| f.d. roosevelt |
president of the u.s. during much of world war II |
| lend-lease |
replaced cash and carry. u.s. program for giving military supplies to britain and soviet union during wwII |
| scorched earth policy |
military practice used by retreating armies of destroying everything as the armies retreat, leaving nothing for advancing army |
| nuremberg laws of 1935 |
stripped german Jews of their civil rights |
| genocide |
deliberate, systematic extermination of a group of people |
| holocaust |
systematic destruction of more than six million european jews by the nazis before and during WWII |
| Erwin Rommel |
desert fox, led the german offensive in north africa |
| bernard montgomery |
british general who blocked Nazi offensive at al alamein |
| dwight eisenhower |
american general who led allied offensives in N. Africa and Europe |
| d-day |
june 6, 1944-day of allied invasion in france |
| stalingrad |
turning point in the war |
| second front |
normandy |
| battle of midway |
june 1942-u.s. crippled japanese navy-turning point in the war |
| island hopping |
american strategy for attacking only key islands |
| macarthur |
u.s. general who led the retreat of american philipponal troops. he acepted the japanese surrender on the u.s.s. missouri |
| tojo |
japanese general who came to power in late 1941 |
| hirohito |
japanese emperor during wwII |
| long range causes of the war |
treaty of versaille and economic depression |
| immediate causes of the war |
rise of totalitarian govt's (italy and germany), expanionist policies of germany, italy, and japan, policy of appeasement and munich 1938, german invasion of poland |
| immediate effects |
devastating loss of property in europe/japan (55 million dead and 4 trillion in property damage, holocaust, atomic bomb, soviet control of eastern europe |
| long range effects |
cold war, divided germany, founding of united nations, nato and warsaw pact, rise of nationalism |
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