Ch. 26 The Road To War

Front 1

Isolationism

Back 1

Withdrawal from world affairs.

Front 2

Disarmament

Back 2

Reducing the size of a country's military.

Front 3

Emily Greene Balch

Back 3

One of the leaders of the women's movement who played an important role in peace efforts.

Front 4

Washington Conference

Back 4

An international conference beginning in November of 1921, that focused on naval disarmament and Pacific security.

Front 5

Charles Evan Hughes

Back 5

US Secretary of State who organized the Washington Conference.

Front 6

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Back 6

Treaty that outlawed war as an instrument of national policy, but allowed countries to go to war in self-defense.

Front 7

Adolf Hitler

Back 7

Was convinced that politicians were responsible for Germany losing the war.

Front 8

Emiliano Chamorro

Back 8

Overthrew the government in Nicaragua, sparking a bitter civil war.

Front 9

Henry Stimson

Back 9

A longtime public official who was sent to negotiate the end of war.

Front 10

Augusto Cesar Sandino

Back 10

A general who opposed Chamorro and refused to accept Stimson's proposal.

Front 11

Adolfo Diaz

Back 11

Chamorro's successor, who with Chamorro, was revolted against by Sandino.

Front 12

Anastasio Somoza

Back 12

General who ordered Sandino's assassination.

Front 13

Good Neighbor policy

Back 13

Formed because in his 1933 inaugural address, Roosevelt spelled out his policy of mutual respect toward Latin America.

Front 14

Lazaro Cardenas

Back 14

Mexico's president in 1938, began to assert government control over the country's oil industry.

Front 15

Nationalize

Back 15

To assert government control over.

Front 16

Josephus Daniels

Back 16

US ambassador to Mexico who argued for a compromise between the Mexican govt. and the oil companies.

Front 17

Caudillos

Back 17

Military leaders who used force to maintain order.

Front 18

Benito Mussolini

Back 18

Promoted his own power by creating the Fascist Party in 1921.

Front 19

Fascist Party

Back 19

Believe that a military-dominative govt. should control all aspects of society.

Front 20

Blackshirts

Back 20

Mussolini's followers were nicknamed these for the color of the uniforms they wore.

Front 21

Joseph Stalin

Back 21

Used underhanded tactics, organized the assassination of his enemies, and eventually emerged as the Soviet Union's new leader.

Front 22

Totalitarian State

Back 22

A country where the govt. has complete control.

Front 23

Nazi Party

Back 23

National socialist party created by Adolf Hitler and won nearly 40 percent of the vote in national elections.

Front 24

Brownshirts

Back 24

Nazi storm troopers who crushed all political opposition.

Front 25

Anti-Semitism

Back 25

Hatred of Jews.

Front 26

Kristallnacht

Back 26

"The night of broken glass" on Nov. 9, 1938 when Nazi thugs burned down Jewish synagogues and destroyed Jewish business.

Front 27

Francisco Franco

Back 27

Threatening general who frightened conservative military men by the reforms united under them.

Front 28

Popular Front

Back 28

A international alliance of organizations united against Fascism.

Front 29

Axis Powers

Back 29

Military alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan.

Front 30

Munich Conference

Back 30

Where Hitler, Mussolini, Chamberlain, and Daladier signed a pact giving Germany control of the Sudetenland.

Front 31

Appeasement

Back 31

Giving in to demands in an attempt to avoid a larger conflict.

Front 32

Winston Churchill

Back 32

Feared that appeasement would encourage Hitler to seize additional territory.

Front 33

Nonaggression pact

Back 33

Stalin signed this pact with Hitler, so they agreed not to attack each other.