Types of Government
All citizens participate directly in making laws
→ What is direct democracy?
Individuals own property and businesses
→ What is capitalism?
Term for the hatred of Jewish people
→ What is antisemitism?
Strategy of capturing islands to get closer to Japan
→ What is island hopping?
U.S. laws that avoided involvement in war
→ What are the Neutrality Acts?
People elect leaders to represent them
→ What is representative democracy?
Government controls major industries
→ What is socialism?
Belief your nation is superior
→ What is nationalism?
Leader who demanded total obedience and executed rivals
→ Who is Joseph Stalin?
Policy of giving in to avoid conflict
→ What is appeasement?
One person holds all power
→ What is an autocracy?
No private property; everything shared equally
→ What is communism?
Total control of all aspects of life by government
→ What is totalitarianism?
First city hit with an atomic bomb
→ What is Hiroshima?
1938 meeting between Hitler and British PM
→ What is the Munich Conference?
Rule by a small group
→ What is an oligarchy?
Markets with few regulations
→ What is a free market?
This WWII leader rose to power in Italy, banned all political parties, and created fascism
→ Who is Benito Mussolini?
Stalin ruled under this economic/political system
→ What is communism?
Land Hitler wanted because of German-speaking people
→ What is the Sudetenland?
No government at all
→ What is anarchy?
Thinker who developed communism
→ Who is Karl Marx?
German dictator who blamed Jewish people and ended democracy
→ Who is Adolf Hitler?
Allied invasion of France in 1944
→ What is D-Day?
Country invaded in 1939 to start WWII
→ What is Poland?