Chapter 16- Pre-WWII
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- Stalin
- Totalitarian dictator of Russia
- Totalitarian
- a government that exerts complete control over its citizens and in which the people have no rights
- Mussolini
- Fascist dictator of Italy
- Fascism
- a totalitarian government that stresses nationalism and places the interests of the state above those of individuals
- Hitler
- Nazi dictator of Germany
- Nazism
- fascism based on extreme nationalism, racial purification, and national expansion
- Japan
- this country was governed by militaristic dictators that wanted to expand the country to make it more self-reliant
- Franco
- fascist dictator of Spain
- Neutrality Acts
- outlawed sales of arms to nations at war
- Chamberlain
- the prime minister of England who turned over the Sudatenland to Germany to stop Hitler's annexations
- Churchill
- signed the Atlantic Charter with FDR
- Appeasement
- giving up principals to pacify an agressor
- Nonagression pact
- signed between Germany and the Soviet Union, this prevented the Soviets from defending Poland when Germany invaded
- blitzkreig
- lightning warfare (lots of bombs)
- Charles De Gaulle
- set up a government-in-exile in England after France was invaded by Germany
- Holocaust
- the systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe, more than half of whom were Jews
- Kristalnacht
- "the night of the broken glass"
- Genocide
- the deliberate and systematic killing of an entire population
- ghetto
- segregated living areas in cities
- concentration camps
- they were originally set up to house political opponents and protesters of the Nazis, but they were converted to house all of the ethnic groups that Hitler belived to be "unfit."
- Cash and Carry policy
- nations that can pay cash and supply their own shipping can buy arms from the US
- the Axis
- Germany, Japan, and Italy
- lend-lease act
- the US will lend arms to any country whose defense is vital to the US
- Atlantic Charter (collective security) (disarmament) (self determination) (economic cooperation) (freedom of the seas)
- a declaration of war aims between US and England (*list war aims in (), there are 5)
- HIdeki Tojo
- japanese prime minister who launched an invasion of Manchuria