social studies

Joseph Stalin

Took control of country created a model communist state

Benito

Established a totalitarian regime in Italy

Adolf Hitler

German director and Nazi

Francisco Franco

Led the Spanish army and rebelled Spanish republic

Neville chamberlain

Minister who met Hitler and declared the annexation of the Sudetenland

Charles de galle

French general set up government in exile in England

Hideki Tojo

Chief of staff of Japan’s kwantung army

Winston Churchill

Chamberlain’s political rival in Great Britain

Totalitarian

Established by Stalin government that tried to exert complete control over citizens

Facism

Stressed nationalism, placed interests of the state above individuals

Neutrality acts

Effort to keep the US out of future wars

Nazism

German brand of fascism

Blitzkrieg

Germans, newest military strategy

Appeasement

Giving up principles to pacify an aggressor

Axis powers

Group of nations, including German, Italy, and Japan

Atlantic charter

Joint declaration of war Aims

Nonaggression pact

Two nations promise not to go to war with each other

Holocaust

The murder of 11 million people half were Jews

Kristallnacht

“Night of broken glass” Nazi storm troopers attacks Jewish homes

Genocide

A policy to get rid of Jews that Hitler imposed

Ghetto

Segregated Jewish areas in certain Polish cities

concentration camp

Labor camps where families often separated

Allies

Nations that had fought the axis powers

Land lease act

1941 prevent fire spreading