Chapter 24

Question 1

Joseph Stalin

Answer 1

Dictator of USSR

Question 2

Totalitarian

Answer 2

characteristic of a politicalsystem in which the government exercises complete control overits citizens lives

Question 3

Benito Mussolini

Answer 3

Dictator of Italy

Question 4

Fascism

Answer 4

a political philosophy that advocates astrong, centralized, nationalistic government headed by apowerful dictator

Question 5

Adolf Hitler

Answer 5

Dictator of Germany

Question 6

Nazism

Answer 6

the political philosophy based on extremenationalism, racism, and militaristic expansionism that AdolfHitler put into practice in Germany from 1933 to 1945

Question 7

Francisco Franco

Answer 7

Dictator of Spain

Question 8

Neutrality Acts

Answer 8

a series of laws enacted in 1935 and 1936 toprevent U.S. arms sales and loans to nations at war

Question 9

Weimer Republic

Answer 9

Germany’s government before Hitler

Question 10

Five–Year Plan

Answer 10

A plan created by Hitler that would build lots of factories and make farms bigger and controlled by the government in a total of 5 years

Question 11

Black Shirts

Answer 11

Soldiers dressed in black that marched around Italy known as the March in Rome

Question 12

Il Duce

Answer 12

Nickname, Benito Mussolini gave himself that meant “The Leader”

Question 13

Der Fuhrer

Answer 13

Nickname, Adolf Hitler gave himself that meant “The Leader”

Question 14

Mein Kampf

Answer 14

A book Hitler wrote and published and wrote about basic belief about the Nazi Party and what there actions would be

Question 15

Ayran

Answer 15

A group of people that the Nazis used to show people they liked (blue–eyed and german)

Question 16

Lebensraum

Answer 16

An idea that Hitler made on how Germany needs more space

Question 17

Storm troopers/Brown Shirts

Answer 17

The soldiers that helped Hitler use fear into controlling people

Question 18

Third Reich

Answer 18

The name of the Nazi Government

Question 19

Nye Committee

Answer 19

A group that investigated why the US went into WWI

Question 20

Neville Chamberlain

Answer 20

A British prime minister before WWII who worked with Hitler to please him and get him to earn the land named Sudetenland

Question 21

Winston Churchill

Answer 21

British Prime Minister during WWII and told the people to resist from the Nazi’s

Question 22

appeasement

Answer 22

the granting of concessions to ahostile power in order to keep the peace

Question 23

nonaggression pact

Answer 23

A treaty between two or more states/countries that makes a promise not to engage in military combat against each other

Question 24

blitzkrieg

Answer 24

from the German word meaning “lightningwar,” a sudden, massive attack with combined air and groundforces, intended to achieve a quick victory

Question 25

Charles de Gaulle

Answer 25

Led Free France against the Nazi Germany in World War II

Question 26

Luftwaffe

Answer 26

Germany's air force

Question 27

Maginot Line

Answer 27

A defensive line built by France on the border towards Germany

Question 28

Sitzkrieg

Answer 28

A period in the war when France and Britain were against Germany

Question 29

RAF

Answer 29

Royal Air Force – the UK Air Force

Question 30

Holocaust

Answer 30

the systematic murder—or genocide—ofJews and other groups in Europe by the Nazis before and duringWorld War II

Question 31

Kristallnacht

Answer 31

“night of broken glass,” a namegiven to the night of November 9, 1938, when gangs of Nazi stormtroopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues inGermany

Question 32

genocide

Answer 32

the deliberate and systematic exterminationof a particular racial, national, or religious group

Question 33

ghetto

Answer 33

a city neighborhood in which a certain minoritygroup is pressured or forced to live

Question 34

concentration camp

Answer 34

a prison campoperated by Nazi Germany in which Jews and other groupsconsidered to be enemies of Adolf Hitler were starved whiledoing slave labor or were murdered

Question 35

Nuremberg Laws

Answer 35

A set of Nazi laws that were passed in 1935 that took away the rights and citizenship of Jewish people

Question 36

SS

Answer 36

A military organization under Hitler and responsible for the concentration camps

Question 37

Axis powers

Answer 37

in World War I, the group of nations—originallyconsisting of Great Britain, France, and Russia and later joinedby the United States, Italy, and others—that opposed the CentralPowers

Question 38

Lend–Lease Act

Answer 38

a law, passed in 1941, that allowed the UnitedStates to ship arms and other supplies, without immediatepayment, to nations fighting the Axis powers

Question 39

Atlantic Charter

Answer 39

1941 declaration of principles in which theUnited States and Great Britain set forth their goals in opposingthe Axis powers

Question 40

Allies

Answer 40

in World War II, the group of nations—including Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States—that opposed the Axis powers

Question 41

Hideki Tojo

Answer 41

Japan's military leader and prime minister during WWII

Question 42

USS Greer

Answer 42

US Navy ship that was fired on by Germany in 1941

Question 43

Hirohito

Answer 43

Became the Emperor in Japan during 1926. (Only 15 years old)

Question 44

Pearl Harbor

Answer 44

a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service at Hawaii in 1941