The Dictators
Japan (name one)
USSR
Germany
Italy
Japan - Emperor Hirotito/Hideki Tojo
USSR - Josef Stalin
Germany - Adolf Hitler
Italy - Benito Mussolini
1) What were the two alliances during WWII?
2) List two countries in each?
1) Allied Powers, Axis Powers
2) Allied Powers - USSR, US, UK, France
Axis Powers - Germany, Japan, Italy
Name two other groups besides Jews who were targeted during the Holocaust.
Roma people, disabled, criminals, gay people
At the end of WWII, Germany was occupied by which 4 countries?
USA, UK, USSR, France
How did the US carry out their policy of containment in Korea and Vietnam?
Sending troops, providing money, providing resources
List TWO aspects of fascist governments.
Emphasis on physicality
Extreme Nationalism
One party rule
Cult of personality
Blitzkrieg was a military policy used by which country during the war?
Germany
True or False:
The Nazis believed that if the country could not provide enough jobs and food for its own citizens, immigrants must leave so that they would not take jobs and food
True
What were the purposes of NATO and the Warsaw Pact?
Alliances between the democratic western bloc and the communist eastern bloc. Purpose = collective security (mutual defense in response to attack). Countries agree to provide assistance to one another to ensure protection.
After WWII, ______________ tried to reassert their control in Vietnam.
France
List three dictatorial practices of Hitler and Mussolini that they used to gain and maintain power.
Secret Police
Propaganda
Youth indoctrination
Which military action led to an almost immediate end to WWII?
The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What was the purpose of the Nuremberg Laws?
Defined who was Jewish, and discriminated against Jews in Germany (not allowed in public schools, etc)
2) How did they go about achieving this goal?
1) contain the spread of communism
2) By providing money and resources to countries who are rebuilding/newly independent/fighting the forces of communism
What is Mutually Assured Destruction?
MAD is the understanding that each side had enough weapons to destroy the other side, which discouraged all out nuclear warfare.
Stalin's use of the KGB and his "Great Purge" of political opponents can be similarly compared to practices of which TWO other dictators?
Mussolini & Hitler
What was the purpose of the Nuremberg Trials?
To hold Germany accountable. The Allied powers...articulated the crimes for which individuals and corporations could be charged,= crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
“Germany is today a better place because Jews have not allowed that country to forget what it did during World War II. The American South is a better place for its acknowledgement of the evil of slavery and the one hundred years of Jim Crowism that followed emancipation. Japanese culture will not move forward until it too admits not only to the world but to itself how improper were its actions during World War II.”
Which event is this quote referring to?
Rape of Nanking
1) Who coined the term "Iron Curtain?"
2) What is the "Iron Curtain?"
1) Winston Churchill
2) The separation between the communist Eastern Bloc and the democratic Western Bloc
“…Nevertheless, for more than eighty years, the French imperialists, abusing the standard of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, have violated our Fatherland and oppressed our fellow citizens. They have acted contrary to the ideals of humanity and justice. In the field of politics, they have deprived our people of every democratic liberty. They have enforced inhuman laws."
Who said this quote?
Ho Chi Minh
How did Mussolini promise to fix problems facing Italy?
To solve unemployment, and the feeling that Italy wasn’t as important as it used to be, Mussolini used public works projects (building projects) to create jobs and to build Italy up. Told Italians what they wanted to hear, and promised a return to the glory of Rome.
1) What is appeasement?
2) Who appeased who during the war?
3) What was the outcome?
1) making settlements to avoid conflict
2) Britain (Chamberlain) made an agreement with Germany (Hitler), in which Germany agreed to stop their expansion.
3) The Nazis continued German expansion.
How did Hitler justify extermination of certain groups to the German people?
By equating the survival of groups of people to money spent by the state. If these groups were exterminated, the state would be saving money.
Also, through perpetuating the belief that Germans had the right to jobs, housing, no matter what (meaning others should be expelled to make space for Germans).
“I believe it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation [domination] by armed minorities or by outside pressure...Greece must have assistance if it is to become a self-supporting and self-respecting democracy."
1) Who most likely said this quote?
2) Explain what the quote means.
1) President Truman
2) Greece was experiencing a Civil War. President Truman wanted to ensure that the communist forces in Greece would not be successful. Thus, proposed providing aid to Greece.
What action by the UN led to China getting involved in the Korean War?
UN forces pushed North Korean forces north of the 38th parallel, which made communist China feel threatened, as they are north of Korea.