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.