9830344217 | Fascism | A political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights, and a dictatorial one-party rule. | 0 | |
9830344218 | Totalitarianism | A political system in which the government has total control over the lives of individual citizens. | 1 | |
9830344219 | Dictator | A ruler who has complete power over a country | 2 | |
9830344220 | Nazism | Adolf Hitler used fascism to create this type of government based on totalitarian ideas and was used to unite Germany during the 1930s. | 3 | |
9830344221 | Appeasement | Accepting demands in order to avoid conflict | 4 | |
9830344222 | Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, Japan | 5 | |
9830344223 | Allied Powers | Alliance of Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and France during World War II. | 6 | |
9830344224 | Blitzkrieg | "Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland n 1939 | 7 | |
9830344229 | The Pacific Theater | The war in the Pacific, most islands were involved, Japan tried to take these islands and sent 65 bombing raids all the way to Australia. | 8 | |
9830344230 | The Holocaust | The Holocaust took place in Europe between 1933 and 1945. Six million Jews were systematically and brutally murdered by the Nazis and their collaberators. Miliions of non-Jews, including Roma and Sinti(Gypsies), Serbs, political dissidents, people with disabilities, homosexuals and Jehova's Witnesses, were also persecuted by the Nazis. | 9 | |
9830344231 | Bataan Death March | Japanese forced about 60,000 of americans and philippines to march 100 miles with little food and water, most died or were killed on the way | 10 | |
9830344232 | Kamikazes | in World War II, Japanese pilots who loaded their aircraft with bombs and crashed them into enemy ships | 11 | |
9830344235 | Nagasaki | Japanese city devastated during World War II when the United States dropped the second atomic bomb on Aug 8th, 1945. | 12 | |
9830344236 | Hiroshima | City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II. | 13 | |
9830344238 | Puppet State | A supposedly independent country under the control of a powerful neighbor | 14 | |
9830344239 | Concentration Camps | prison camps used under the rule of Hitler in Nazi Germany. Conditions were inhuman, and prisoners, mostly Jewish people, were generally starved or worked to death, or killed immediately. | 15 | |
9830344240 | Internment Camps | Detention centers where more than 100,000 Japanese Americans were relocated during World War II by order of the President. | 16 | |
9830344242 | Propaganda | Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause. | 17 | |
9830344245 | Death Camps | camps used under the rule of Hitler in Nazi Germany for the purpose of killing prisoners immediately. | 18 | |
9830344246 | Kristallnacht | (Night of the Broken Glass) November 9, 1938, when mobs throughout Germany destroyed Jewish property and terrorized Jews. | 19 | |
9830344247 | Anti Semitism | hatred towards Jews | 20 |
World War 2--World History Flashcards
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