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Stack #5784
| 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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