AP World History Unit 7 - Lesson 7.6

Benito Mussolini

________ and the National Fascist Party came to power in 1922 Italy.

Anti-Semitism

Discrimination against Jewish people

Mein Kampf

Adolf Hitlers book expressing his extreme anti-Semitic views

Nazis

The National Socialist German Workers party who came to power in 1932

Scientific Racism

Nazi promoted theory, stating that some races are superior to others

Nuremberg Laws

Hitler designed laws to limit natural rights of Jews, such as careers and marriage

Axis Powers

Nazi military pacts/alliances

Rome-Berlin Axis

Formed between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, driven by political and economic shared interests

Anti-Comintern Pact

Formed between Nazi Germany and Japan, driven by hate towards communism

Kristallnacht

November 1938, anti-Semitic riots broke out and led to the death of a German diplomat by a Jewish teen

British Appeasement

Britain gave into German demands in the hope of keeping peace

Munich Agreement

Britain, Italy, and France agreed to the German annexation of Sudetenland, in return for German expansion to stop

German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

Hitler and Stalin agreed to the Soviet aid of Germanys invasion on Poland, in return for Eastern Poland and Slavic states

Paul Von Hindenburg

President of Germany after the Wiemar Republic fell, and before Hitler.

Aryans (Germany)

Nazi integrated race of “pure Germans”

Wiemar Republic

Federal republic of Germany after WW1

Third Reich

Hitler’s German Empire

Neville Chamberlain

British prime minister that believed they must give into German demands in order to keep peace.

The Rhineland

Buffer zone between Germany and France after WW1

Anschluss

Political union of Austria under Nazi rule.