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TEST 20
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Internationalism | Idea that trade between nations creates prosperity and help prevent war |
| Benito Mussolini | Fastest leader established dictatorship in italy |
| Neville Champberlain | British leader promised peace for our time |
| America First Committee | Isolations group opposed by American intervention |
| Auschwitz | Take over of austria by germany |
| Adolf Hitler | Dictator in Germany 1930s |
| Embargo | Stopped the sale of fuel and iron from the US to Japan |
| Cash-and-carry | Neutrality Act of 1939 |
| Anschluss | Germany's take over Austria |
| Atlantic Charter | Postwar democracy |
| Causes of the rise of dictatorship after WWI. | Treaty of Versailles economic depression studentland |
| Why did the European nations not deal more aggressively with Hitler? | They thought the nazis would want peace |
| Munich Conference | England and france gave into hilters demands between france and germany Nye Committee |
| Nye Committee | 1934 reported America as a result forWanted to see America joining world war 1 and brought arms |
| Isolationism | Americans wanted to avoid conflict with europe |
| Lend-Lease Act | Allows roosevelt to supply arms to great britain |
| Hemispheric Defense Zone | Roosvelt put in place to protect British ships |
| Shoah | Hebrew term for holocaust |
| Kristallnacht | Night of violence against jews |
| In 1939 which countries denied European Jews fleeing war-torn Europe entry into their country? | Mexico Paraguary Argentina US |
| Describe Fascism and the beliefs of its followers and explain how Fascist ideology contributed to global warfare. | Fascism is the ideology of dictatorship under extreme suppression to control any circumstance through powerful, fearful tactics to gain lebensraum, alliances, militarization and prosecution. |
| Describe Adolf Hitler’s belief and explain how his nationalism and his views on race contributed to World War II and the Holocaust. | Hilter believed that the Aryan race was superior believing the world was divided into culture creating and culture destroying sides. He believed that the Jews were seen as a parasitic race being a threat to the Aryan people. His |
| Why were many German Jews and Jews in other parts of Europe unable to flee and immigrate to the United States when the Nazis took power? | Jews faced the inability to flee from the holocaust because of the United States strict policies of immigration were limited to the Jews. The U.S. had a immigration quota, strict identity forms, the 8 foot long Application by Brec |