Dictator
An absolute ruler of a country. They have supreme authority and their power is extreme
Facism
A political system that stresses extreme nationalism & patriotism: Italy
Communism
A political system where the government claims all property, resources and completely plans and controls the economy Russia
Nazism
A political system based on belief of German racial superiority, government, control of the economy and culture, and expanding territory
Benito Mussolini
The fascist dictator of Italy before and during WWII
Adolf hitler
The nazi dictator of Germany before and during WWII
Joseph Stalin
The communist dictator of the Soviet Union (Russia) before and during WWII
Hideki Tojo
The military dictator of Japan before and during WWII
Axis
Military alliance between hitler(Germany) and Mussolini (Italy) and Tojo (Japan)
Appeasement
meeting demands of a hostile power in order to avoid war
Blitzkrieg
German "lighting war " tactics
War bonds
Loans that the government promised to repay with interest
Holocaust
Nazi German crime of killing more than 11 million Jews and other persecuted people's in concentration camps
Anti semitism
Prejudice against Jews
The final solution
Hitlers response to the Jewish problem. To kill every Jew in German held territory
Concentration camps
Nazi death camps designed to murder Jews and other people who did not conform to hitlers master race
Auschwitz
The site of the most famous concentration camp locate in Poland
Ways Germany defied Treaty of Versailles
Rebuild military, stop reparation payments, reintroduce conscription, begin mobilization
Sudetenland
One of the first areas occupied by Germany. Area in Czechoslovakia that was predominately German
Munich Pact
Agreement between Britain, France, & Germany. "Appeased Germany
Pact of Steel
Germany & Italy form an alliance
No Aggression Pact
Soviet-German agreement to not fight and split up Poland
Official start of WWII
German invasion of Poland
Fall of France
German invasion and eventual defeat of France
Maginot Line
France's defensive border built after WWI
Weimar Republic
Democratic government in Germany from 1919-1933
Socialism
A system of social ownership of the economy
Third Reich
Nazi Germany 1933-1945
Enabling Act
Made Hitler the dictator of Germany & left parliament powerless
Lebensraum
Living Space: Rationale for territorial expansion of Germany
Hitler Youth
Program that all German children were forced to join to become educated and trained in nazi ideology
Nuremberg Laws
series of laws that took citizenship away from Jewish Germans and banned marriage between Jews and non-Jews
Propaganda
Way in which the Nazi message was spread through art, music, theater, film & books.
Gesatp
The German secret police