Terms
This is the name for Russian labor camps.
What are Gulags?
This was the name of the Italian Fascist dictator.
Who is Mussolini?
This cause was triggered by an unregulated stock exchange.
What is the Great Depression?
This invasion marked the beginning of the end for Hitler.
Operation Overlord (a/k/a D-Day)
This is where German political leaders were tried for crimes committed during WW2.
What is the Nuremberg Trials?
This is the term for a Russian Communist.
What is Bolshevik?
This is the leader of Russia during WW2.
Who is Stalin?
This is the strategy used by Neville Chamberlain.
What is appeasement?
This is the name for the 57 consecutive days of Germany bombing London.
What is the Blitz?
This is the act or process of a state withdrawing from a former colony, leaving it independent.
What is decolonization?
This is a centralized government that prohibits individual and political opposition
What is totalitarianism?
This person was referred to as "the Fuhrer".
Who is Hitler?
This occurred in Italy, Germany, and Russia.
What is the rise of dictators?
This Operation violated the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact.
What is Operation Barbarossa?
This was triggered by the 1949 Russian detonation of a bomb.
What is the Nuclear Arms Race?
This means "head of government".
What is Premier?
This person established communist Russia.
Who is Lenin?
This helped shape the modern nations of the Middle East.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This is the first time the Allies stopped Hitler's advances.
What is the Battle of Britain?
This is when 17 African nations became independent.
What is the Year of Africa?
This was the name for the German military.
What is Wehrmacht?
This person was the Japanese leader during WW2.
Who is Hideki Tojo?
This is the British and French retreat from France.
What is Operation Dynamo?
This happened when Soviet soldiers discovered something in Majdnek on July 23, 1944.
What is exposing the Holocaust?