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Ch. 24 Study Guide
History
Term | Definition |
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Four Freedoms | get support from Britain, freedom of speech and worship, freedom from want and fear |
final solution | made plans to exterminate Europe's Jews |
SS St. Louis and their Jews on it | entered with 930 Jews and were denied entrance into US, eventually died in concentration camps |
Nuremburg Laws | took citizenship away from Jews and didn't allow Jews to marry other Germans |
Hitler | made demands for territory in Poland which showed that appeasement had failed |
Nye Committee | documented huge profits that arms factories made |
Jews | Who did Hitler blame WWI's defeat on? |
Depression and Treaty of Versailles | 2 causes of the rise of dictatorships after WWI |
blackshirts | Fascist militia |
storm troopers | Nazi military unit that intimidated voters |
sitzkrieg | the "sitting war" Western Europe remained quiet |
Aryans | blonde blue-eyed Germans that belonged to Hitler's Master Race |
Gestapo | German secret police |
appeasement | giving up concessions to get peace |
cash and carry | requirement imposed by the first two Neutrality Acts for the purchase of non-military supplies from the US |
Danzig | Baltic seaport with strong military roots and Hitler tried to get it back |
Anchluss | unification of Austria and Germany |
Poland | Britain and France declared war when Germany invaded where |
Fuhrer | Hitler |
Shoah | Hebrew for catastrophe |
Auschwitz | extermination camp that killed 12,000 Jews per day |
Lend-lease act | US could lend arms to countries vital to the defense of US |
Holocaust | catastrophe that killed 6 million Jews |
Atlantic charter | committed FDR and Churchill to a postwar world of democracy, non-aggression, and free trade |
Maginot line | built by France to keep Germans out |
II Duce | Mussolini's nickname |
blitzkrieg | lightning war, make sure it's coordinated because it's so fast |
lebenstaum | living space |
Mein Kampf | My Struggle |
internationalism | idea that trade between nations creates prosperity |
Luftwaffe | German airforce |
Buchenwald | one of the first and largest concentration camps |
Manchuria | resource-rich province invaded by Japan |
lend-lease act | FDR's way of getting guns to Britain without Britain having to pay cash |
Neutrality Act of 1935 | made it illegal for Americans to sell arms to any country at war |
US bases on British-held territory | Why did FDR send destroyers to Britain? |
Austria | What country was unified with Germany? |
Wannsee Conference | Nazis planned the final solution for Jews |
Munich Conference | Britain and France gave in to Hitler's demands for the sudetenlands |
Kristallnacht | night of broken glass Nov 1938 |
Nazi-Soviet nonaggression treaty | contained secret deal between Germany and USSR to divide Poland between them |
Battle of Britain | Royal air force saved Britain from invasion |