Rise of Totalitarianism
Who are: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini, and Hideki Tojo
Hitler's best selling novel that shared his views on democracy, communism, anti-antisemitism, etc.
What is Mein Kampf?
Identify three members of the Axis Powers and three members of the Allied Powers.
Axis- Germany, Italy, and Japan
Allied- France, Britain, Soviet Union, USA
The roughly six week period where Japanese soldiers invaded the capital of China terrorizing and killing Chinese soldiers and civilians.
What is the Rape of Nanking?
Two Japanese cities chosen as site for the dropping of the Atomic Bombs Little Boy and Fat Man
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
What are the 5 year plans?
Adolf Hitler blamed this group of people for setting the Reichtag on fire and had their leaders arrested.
Who are the communists.
Policy created by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that gave concessions to Adolf Hitler in return for world peace
What is appeasement?
Event that is largely considered the start of World War II in Europe.
What is the German invasion of Poland on September 1st, 1939?
Battle tactic used by the German Army where forces would drive a breach in enemy defenses, permitting armored tank divisions to penetrate rapidly and roam freely behind enemy lines, causing shock and disorganization among the enemy defenses.
What is Blitzkrieg?
Totalitarian dictators often take civil liberties from their people. Identify two examples of civil liberties.
What are Freedom of expression, Freedom of speech, Freedom of assembly, Freedom of press, Freedom of religion.
Adolf Hitler wanted to conquer the racially inferior Russia and Poland in order to gain this.
What is Lebensraum or living space?
What happened between Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin in August of 1939?
What is signing the Non-aggression pact?
This amphibious invasion pushed back German forces out of France and allowed the Allied Powers to advance into Germany.
What is D-Day (Battle of Normandy, Operation Overload)?
Provide two examples of how Jewish people were treated in Germany, Poland, etc during the rule of Adolf Hitler.
What are put into ghettos, stripped of rights, forced into hiding, had jobs taken away from them, killed during the holocaust, etc?
In order to expand its colonial empire, Italy invaded this African nation.
What is Ethiopia?
This gave Hitler the temporary ability to pass laws after he had been named chancellor.
What are the Enabling Acts?
Allowing the aggressive acts of Germany and Japan shows the weakness of what international organization?
What is the League of Nations?
Coming as a surprise to the Soviet Union and Joseph Stalin, the German Luftwaffe began to bomb Soviet naval and air bases, destroying roughly one-quarter of the Russian air force in 1941.
What is Operation Barbossa?
Tactic used by the Allied Powers in the Pacific Theater to reach mainland Japan.
What is Island Hopping?
Provide two reasons Japan became aggressors during the 1930's.
1) they needed natural resources to continue to industrialize (they were a military dictatorship)
2) they felt they were culturally superior to other asian nations
3) They did not want to be imperialized like many other nations had been.
Event where Hitler had political opponents and members of his brown shirts killed to gain support of the German army.
What is the Night of the Long Knives>
What two places was Germany allowed to invade and annex that act as examples of appeasement?
What are the Rhineland in France and the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia
Considered a turning point for the Allied Powers in the European Theater because the German Army's advancement into the Soviet Union was stopped.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
The name of the German Government that has often been described as weak and ineffective for its decision to agree to the Treaty of Versailles.
What is the Weimar Republic?