World war 2

Largest war in human history

World War 2

By the end, over 70 million were dead

World war 2

Giving someone something to make them happy and leave you alone.

Appeasement

A system in which the state and its leader have nearly TOTAL control.

Totalitarianism

Individual rights are not viewed as important as the needs of the nation.

Totalitarianism

GERMANY LEADER

Adolf Hitler

JAPAN LEADER

Hideki Tojo

ITALY LEADER

Benito Mussolini

USSR LEADER

Josef Stalin

Political belief that says the individual is less important than the nation.

Fascism

Glorifies violence, believes it is needed to "prove" strength of a people.

Fascism

- soon after becoming chancellor he begins rearming Germany breaking the Treaty of Versailles

Militarism

living space

Lebemsraum

annexed peacefully

Austria

territory in Czechoslovakia

Sudetenland

means "lightening war" in German.

Blitzkrieg

Axis Powers

Germany

Italy

Japan

Allied Powers

Great Britain

Soviet Union

United States

France

They surrendered to Germany in 1940

France

Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii to sink US ships there.

Pacific War

US drops atomic bomb on

Hiroshima

Nagasaki

Allied invasion of France also called

d-day

Nazi plan to kill all Jews.

Holocaust

Purposely trying to exterminate an entire group of people (ethnic, religious, racial).

Genocide