history quiz chapter 17 ls1+2

Joseph Stalin

communist dictator of the Soviet Union

totalitarian

government that has complete control over its citizens and puts down all opposition

benito mussolini

fascist dictator of italy

fascism

political system that stressed nationalism and the interests of the state

Adolf Hitler

Nazi dictator of Germany

Nazism

Fascist political philosophy of Germany based on extreme nationalism

Hideki Tojo

Prime minister of Japan during WWII

Neville chamberlain

Prime minister of Great Britain before WWII

Winston Churchill

prime minister of Great Britain during WWII

appeasement

trying to pacify an aggressor in order to keep the peace

nonaggression pact

agreement between Germany and Rusia not to attack each other

blitzkrieg

lightning war strategy used by Germany against Poland

Holocaust

systematic murder of more than 11 million Jews and other people in Europe by the Nazis

Kristallnacht

name given the night of November 9, 1938, when Nazis in Germany attack Jews and their homes, businesses, and synagogues

genocide

deliberate and systematic killing of an entire people

ghetto

a segregated neighborhood

concentration camp

a prison camp operated by the Nazis where Jews and others were starved while doing slave labor, or murdered