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ch17-18 valles
WWII terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Isolationism | National policy of avoiding involvement in the affairs of other nations, US policy |
| Disarmament | Reduction of the size of a country's military |
| Washington Conference | focus on disarmament, 5 Naval Power & 9 Naval Power treaties limiting a nations navy |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | Outlawed war as a national policy, unable to enforce |
| Adolf Hitler | Leader of Nazi Germany, blamed Jews for Germany's condition, violated the Treaty of Versasilles |
| Totalitarian State | where the government has complete control. ex. Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union |
| Ant-Semitism | hatered of the Jews, becomes Germany's official policy |
| Benito Mussolini | fascist leader of Italy, anti-communist, invades Ethiopia, allie to Adolf Hitler |
| Fascist Party | a military dominated government, use military against opposition |
| Black shirts | Followers of Mussolini, enforced his policies, fascist |
| Joseph Stalin | leader of the Soviet Union, gained power through assassination and trickery |
| Nazi Party | Socialist party of Germany, lead by Adolf Hitler |
| Brown shirts | Members of the Nazi Party, enforced Hitler's policies, fascist |
| Appeasement | Giving in to avoid conflict, done during the Munich Conference |
| Appeasement | aggreement between Hitler and Stalin, not to interfer with another and to secretly divide Poland |
| Munich Conference | Where Britain and France gave Hitler the Sudetenland, example of appeasement |
| Allied Powers | Britan, France, the US, China, and Soviet Union |
| Lend-Lease Act | Where the US loaned or sold military equipment to the Allied powers making the US an "Arsenal for Democracy" |