Western Civilization 2 Chapter 26 – Flashcards
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A major lesson Hitler learned from the Spanish Civil War was
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the deep reluctance of Britain and France to see another European war.
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After the Nazis invaded Russia, allied forces opened a second front in Europe during the summer of 1943, when they invaded
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Italy.
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Contributing to the weakness of the League of Nations was the fact that
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Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States were not members.
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Defeated by the Germans, northern France was occupied and its southern region and territories fell under the jurisdiction of a government under the leadership of the First World War hero
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Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain.
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From the late 1930s until 1941, when Germany seized a large territory that had a numerous Jewish population, the German war on the Jews concentrated on emigration, not extermination, with a plan to send Europe's Jews to
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Madagascar.
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Hitler's stated objective in the 1930s was to reunite all ethnic Germans within his Third German Reich. His first move toward accomplishing this objective was _____________, which did not draw a military response from Britain or France.
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the reoccupation of the Rhineland
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In 1941, Romania, Hungary, and _________ joined Hitler's Germany as allies of the Nazis.
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Bulgaria
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It was _________ troops that entered and occupied Berlin at the end of the war.
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Soviet
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It was not only the Germans who tortured and murdered eastern European Jews but also groups of:
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Polish villagers.
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Once Hitler had pieced together an empire that stretched across Europe, he declared,
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"We come as the heralds of a New Order and a new justice."
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One cause of another world war was the impotence of the League of Nations and the victors failure to
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create lasting and binding standards for peace and security.
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The Treaty of Versailles created smaller new states in eastern Europe that
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created new forms of bitterness and nationalistic conflicts.
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The character of the war changed in the east when Russians rallied to defend the
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rodina.
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The economic nationalism that inflamed international tensions and even internal relations between management and labor stemmed from
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the Great Depression.
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The largest Jewish resistance came in the spring of 1943 at
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the Warsaw ghetto.
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The leader of the most powerful Yugoslavian resistance group during the war was:
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Josib Broz.
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The mid-1930s saw two non-European tests for the League of Nations: Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia and:
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Japan's aggression against China.
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To solve some of its economic problems, Germany was allowed to
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rearm after 1935.
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To whom does the term Untermenschen refer?
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It referred to the "subhuman" racial categories of Jews, Gypsies, and Slavs marked for murder by Nazi officials in occupied Europe.
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When Germany invaded Russia, following German front-line troops into the country were military death squads charged with dealing with undesirable individuals among the conquered peoples. These squads were called
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Einsatzgruppen.
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Why did Neville Chamberlain presume that the agreements at the Munich conference would satisfy Hitler's ambitions?
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It allowed Hitler to unify all ethnic Germans in one state.
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Writers, intellectuals and politicians on the left saw efforts to negotiate with fascist in the 1930s as
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vile.
