Chapter 11 Review – Flashcards
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Fascism
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an aggressive nationalistic movement that is considers the nation more important than the individual (you have no say)
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Collective
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Government-owned farms
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Appeasement
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Giving in to the unjust demands of a belligerent leader in order to avoid war
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Internationalism
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A national policy of actively trading with foreign countries to foster peace and prosperity
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Strategic materials
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materials needed for fighting a war
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Concentration camp
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a camp where people are detained or confined
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Extermination camp
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a camp where men, women, and children were sent to be executed
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How did fascism put Europe on the path to war?
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Nation is more important than the people, German nationalism, territorial demands
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How did European nations try to prevent war?
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They gave in to Germany's demands and gave land (Austria, Sudetenland, Poland)
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What economic and political conditions following World War 1 encouraged dictatorships?
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Great Depression, war debt
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How does internationalism differ from isolationism?
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Isolationism separates a country from others. Internationalism permits trade with other countries.
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How did restricting the sale of strategic materials hinder Japan's aggression in the Pacific
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Japan depended on the materials from the U.S. When they couldn't get supplies anymore, it caused them to have to form an alliance with Germany and Italy, encouraging aggression towards the U.S.
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Why did many Americans support isolationism?
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Stopped paying war debts, they didn't want to be a part of another war, had different political stands
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How did President Roosevelt assist Britain while maintaining U.S. neutrality?
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Exchange destroyers for bases, lend-lease acts
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How did the U.S. try to slow Japan's advances in the Pacific?
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They put an embargo on Japan, we helped China
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Why did many Jews remain in Nazi Germany and within Axis-controlled areas of Europe?
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They were going to wait it out because they thought that it would blow over.
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How did the Nazis try to exterminate Europe's Jewish population?
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The put them in gas chambers, and cremated them, worked them to death
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What was the purpose of the concentration camps?
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Political opponents, undesirable, homosexuals, and Jews would be worked to death, and starved
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How was the Buchenwald concentration camp different from Treblinka and Auschwitz?
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It didn't have gas chambers
