World War 2--World History Flashcards

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