Totalitarians
Pre-War Events
War Terms
War Events
Post War
100
This extreme form of advertising allowed totalitarians to influence their people.
What is propaganda?
100
These payments from the Versailles Treaty were what bankrupted Germany and were stopped by Hitler.
What are Reparations?
100
This German word for "lightning war" was the strategy that allowed the rapid takeover of western Europe in 1939
What is Blitzkrieg?
100
The invasion of this country began the fighting in Europe during WWII
What is Poland?
100
Despite promising not to at the Tehran Conference, Stalin created this barrier by not allowing free elections in Eastern Europe
What is a Buffer Zone?
200
Secret police and restrictive laws were the primary tools to instill this emotion in people?
What is Fear?
200
Hitler broke the Versailles Treaty when he sent this to the Rhineland, the area between France and Germany.
What is His Military?
200
This term was the strategy used in WWII to take out a country's ability to wage war, including attacks on civilians
What is Total War?
200
This event finally brought the US into the war after years of economic support for the Allies
What is the Attack on Pearl Harbor?
200
This US policy came out of WWII and promised to oppose Communism around the world
What is the Truman Doctrine?
300
Totalitarians during the 1930's gained power by promising to do this to countries who were hurt by the Depression
What is make them great again?
300
This tactic was taken primarily by Great Britain to try and stop war with Germany by giving them what they wanted
What is Appeasement?
300
The quest for this is why Germany wanted to invade the Soviet Union, as well as take over the rest of Europe
What is Living Space (or food)
300
This mistake by Hitler marked the turning point in the European Theater
What is the Invasion of the Soviet Union
300
This economic program offered by the US was not taken by the Soviet controlled countries, leading to a difference in recovery by Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
400
These Soviet prison camps were where Stalin sent Russians who might have opposed him; millions died
What are Gulags?
400
This term for the annexation of Austria was legally voted on by the citizens of Austria, in violation of the Versailles Treaty
What is the Anschluss?
400
This strategy by the Americans in the Pacific allowed them to gradually take back the land captured by the Japanese.
What is Island Hopping?
400
The allies agreed at the Tehran Conference to open a second front in Europe, eventually fulfilled by this event?
What is D-Day?
400
These targets of the atom bombs finally brought surrender from Japan, ending WWII
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
500
This new form of government, first established by Mussolini, can be described as "extreme nationalism".
What is Fascism?
500
These economic plans by Joseph Stalin were designed to modernize Russia like the rest of Europe
What are Five Year Plans?
500
This new weapon used at the end of WWII was developed by the Manhattan Project in the USA
What is Atomic Bomb?
500
The Japanese invasion of this region is what prompted the US to levy sanctions against Japan, causing the attack on Pearl Harbor
What is Indochina?
500
This final meeting between the Big Three required the unconditional surrender of Japan, leading to the atomic bomb drop.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
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