World War II
Il Duce
Benito Mussolini
Russian term for prisons during Joseph Stalin’s reign
Gulags
At the treaty of Versailles, Germany was made to pay this for all the damage that they caused. What is the term for this?
Reparations
War based on wearing down the other side with constant attacks and heavy losses
War of attrition
Archduke of Austria-Hungary who was murdered in Sarajevo, Bosnia
Franz Ferdinand
Name of lighting war
Blitzkrieg
Term for Stalin’s elimination of private farms…prevented region of Ukraine from becoming independent.
Terror Famine
Japanese suicide pilots
Kamikaze
Fighting from ditches dug out and protected by barbed wire during WW I
Trench Warfare
Term for race killing
Genocide
What did Neville Chamberlain and Hitler agree to at the Munich Conference in 1938?
Peace
Spanish painter of surrealism, a form of art depicting dream-like scenes
Salvador Dali
What country did Germany invade that prompted the beginning of World War 2?
Poland
Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause.
Propaganda
Another word for military draft
Conscription
country that Hitler annexed in March 1938 (Birth country)
What year do (white) women gain the right to vote in USA
1920
What tragic event drew the USA into World War I
Sinking of the Lusitania
Fighting/arguing brothers who developed the airplane
Orville/Wilbur Wright
Before WW I, what type of government was expanding in Great Britain, France, and Italy
Democracy
Autobiography of Adolf Hitler
Mein Kampf
What plan loaned American money to German companies and began heavy American investment in Europe
What country did the Germans go through to attack France. Violated neutrality
Belgium
Secret Society of military officers in the Serbian Army
Black Hand
A mechanical engineer from Germany who developed the Diesel engine and died mysteriously.
Rudolf Diesel