Fascism, WWII, and Genocide

Fascism

A form of government in which a dictator and the dictator's party totally control a government

Inflation

A quick increase in prices

Feuhrer

The name given to Adolf Hitler meaning "leader"

Genocide

The mass murder of a group of people

Appeasement

A policy of making others happy or content

Blitzkrieg

The quick and forceful method of attack that Germany used in WWII; "lighting war"

Total War

A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort

Kamikaze

Japanese pilot who crashed his plane into an enemy ship and destroyed it and himself, which shows valuing national honor over individual life.

Final Solution

Hitler's program of systematically killing the entire Jewish population

Kristallnacht

"Night of Broken Glass"-the night of November 9, 1938, on which Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues throughout Germany

Nuremberg Laws

Deprived Jews of citizenship

Axis Powers

Japan, Germany, Italy

Allied Powers

Great Britain, France, China, USA, USSR

Battle of Britain

Germany's Luftwaffe bombed Great Britain

Concentration Camps

Auschwitz, Dachau, Treblinka