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VOCAB WORDS ONE
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Totalitarian state | A single party controls the government and every aspect of people’s lives |
| Fascism | A form of government rooted in militarism, extreme nationalism, and blind loyalty to the state. |
| Josef Stalin | Totalitarian dictator of Communist Soviet Union |
| Benito Mussolini | Totalitarian dictator and ruler of Fascist Italy. |
| rearmament | The act of rebuilding a country’s military after having downsized due to disarmament. |
| Aggression | A warlike act by one country against another |
| Nazi Party | The national Socialist German Workers party. Political party that controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945. |
| Adolf Hitler | Dictator of Germany and leader of the Nazi party. |
| Scapegoat | A person or group on who to falsely blame problems. |
| Concentration Camps | Prison camps for civilians who were considered enemies of the state. |
| Neutrality Acts | Acts passed by Congress in 1935 which banned sales of weapons to countries at war. |
| Anti-Semitism | Prejudice or hatred directed against Jewish people. |
| Militarism | Building up armed forces. |
| Munich Conference | A 1983 agreement in which Hitler promised that it would seek no further territory once it had acquired the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. |
| Appeasement | Giving in to aggression in order to avoid war. |
| Nazi-Soviet Pact | A 1939 Pact in which Hitler and Stalin agreed to not attack one another, and divide Poland and other Eastern European territories. |
| Blitzkrieg | Lightning war |
| Axis powers | Alliance between Germany, Japan, and Italy . Pact of Steel. |
| Allied Powers | Alliance between Britain, France, The Soviet union, United States, and 45 other countries. |