history chapter 24 – Flashcards
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totalitarian
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describes government that controls every aspects o life
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fascism
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political philosophy that emphasize the importance of the nation or ethnic groups and the supreme authority of the leader
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axis powers
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Germany, Italy, and Japan
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appeasement
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giving in to someone's demands in order to keep peace
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blitzkrieg
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"lightning war" a fast concentrated air and land attack
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resistance
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group of French citizen who carried out anti-German activities
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Allies
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the groups of countries who opposed the Axis power
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Neutrality Acts
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Congress prevented international involvement, future war by passing the Neutrality Acts, which banned the U.S from providing weapons or loans to nation at war
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cash and carry
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part of the Neutrality Acts, the cash and carry policy required nation at war to pay cash for all nonmilitary goods
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America First Committee
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a group of isolationists that endeavored to block aid to Britain
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Lend-Lease Act
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act passed in 1941 that authorized the president to aid any nation whose defense he believed was vital to U.S security
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puppet state is supposedly independent country under the control of ________.
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a powerful neighbor
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the Burma Road allowed Britain to send supplies to _____
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the Chinese
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the real reason that Japan announced the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was that
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Japan wanted the region's natural resources to carry on its war against China
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How did Mussolini use gangs of Fascist thugs in Italy
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to terrorize his opponents
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Which country ad gained control of most of Western Europe by 1940
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Germany
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in order to modernize agriculture in the Soviet Union, Josef Stalin
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combined small family farms into collective farms run by the state
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Nazism was an extreme form of
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fascism
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What historical event contributed to the rise o fascism in both Italy ad Germany
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World War 1
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to which direction did Hitler look when he decided Germany needed more lebensraum " living space "
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to the east: eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
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philosophy emphasizes the importance of the nation or an ethnic group and the supreme authority of the leader
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fascism
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government that exerts total control over a nation
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totalitarian
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keeping the peace by giving in to an aggressor's demands
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appeasement
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Germany and Italy, later joined by Japan
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Axis Power
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collaboration
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close operation
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Hitler signed a Nonagression Pact with
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the Soviet Union
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Hitler used which of the following military strategies when invading Poland
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a blitzkrieg
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where did on of the greatest rescues in the history of warfare take place
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Dunkirk
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the Vichy government of France adopted which of the following policies after Germany conquered France
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collaboration
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in what battle did Hitler launch the greatest air assault the world had yet seen
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Battle of Britain
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who inspired the British people to resist the German invasion
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Winston Churchill
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who sailed into Tokyo Bay in 1853 to help force open Japanese trade to foreigners
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Matthew Perry
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by the beginning of World War 1,Japan had
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become the strongest East Asian nation
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which was the real motive behind the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
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Japan wanted the region's natural resources for its war against China.
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what was Manchukuo
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puppet state after Manchuria
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why did Chinese leaders, Jiang Jieshi and Mao Zedong, unite
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to fight the Japanese
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in September 1940 Japan allied itself with
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the Axis Powers
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in the Manchurian Incident, the Japanese army
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acted on its own to overrun the whole Manchuria
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during the 1930s the United States focused largely on
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domestic affairs
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congress passed Neutrality Acts that were designed to
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limit international involvement
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a group of isolationist that included aviator Charles Lindbergh formed the
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American First Commitee
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which militant Japanese general became prime minister in October of 1941
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Tojo Hideki
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all of the following evens led up to Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor except
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a group of isolationists formed to block aid to Britain
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Shortly after Congress passed a war declaration on Japan, which other two countries declared war on the U.S
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Italy and Germany
