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32 Cards in this Set
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Describe Buchenwald |
First and largest concentration camp |
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Describe Auschwitz |
Largest extermination camp |
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What was the title given to Benito Mussolini? |
Il Duce
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What was the title given to Adolf Hitler? |
"Fuhrer" or leader |
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Describe Aryans |
Superior race- destined to rule the world |
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Describe the tern "cash and carry" |
Pay for everything up front with cash. Imposed by first two neutrality act, buy supplies from US |
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What is internationalism? |
Trade between nations- helps to prevent war |
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What does Anschluss translate to in English? |
Unification |
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Describe the Gestapo |
Nazi gov't- secret police |
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What was the title of Hitler's autobiography? |
Mein Kampf |
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Describe the Luftwaffe |
German air force |
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What does lebensraum refer to? |
living space |
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Describe the Maginot Line |
French fortifications along German border |
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What does Blitzkrieg mean? Describe it |
"Lightning war"- air force, tanks, than the soldiers on foot |
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Describe the Holocaust |
Mass killing of millions of Jews by Nazis |
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What happened at the Wannsee Conference? |
Nazi leaders planned the "Final Solution" |
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Describe the Nuremberg Laws |
Took citizenship away from Jewish Germans |
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What countries were part of the Axis Powers? |
Germany, Italy and Japan |
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What did Adolf Hitler blame Germany's defeat in WW1 from? |
Jews |
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Describe the Nazi's final solution |
Kill Jews/ extermination camps
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What secret deal did the Nazi-Soviet nonaggrression pact contain? |
Divide Poland between them |
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Describe the Nye Committee an what they tried to prove |
American arms manufacturers was Americas entry to war |
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What was the first area that Hitler unified with Germany prior to WWII? |
Austria |
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To get resources, the Japanese military invaded who? |
Manchuria |
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When did the French and British realize that appeasement had failed with Hitler? |
When he started making demands for Poland |
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Describe the Lend-Lease Act |
Give land instead of cash- Britain give to US |
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List two causes of the rise of dictatorships after WW1 |
Peace Treaty & Economic depression |
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Describe the Munich Conference |
Britain and France gave into Hitler's demands for Sudetenland |
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Describe Kristallnacht |
"Night of the Broken Glass"- night of Anti-Jewish violence |
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FDR send destroyers to Britain in exchange for? |
US bases on British held territory |
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Describe the Neutrality Act of 1935 |
Illegal for Americans to sell arms to any country at war |
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Describe the Battle of Britain |
Royal Air Forces saved Britain from invasion |
