World War 2 Vocabulary

facism

A politcal movement that promotes exteme nationalism, a denial of individual rights, and a dictator of a one party rule

Benito Mussolini

Italy’s facist dictator

Adolf Hitler

Germany Facist Dictator

Nazism

The social polices of National Social German workers party based on totalitarism, a belief in racial superioty, and state control of industry

Mein Kampf

“My Struggle” - a book written by Adolf Hitler during his imprisonment in 1923 -1924 in which he set forth his goals and beliefs for Germany

Lebensraum

“living space”- the additional territory that according to Hitler, Germany needed becuase it was overcrowded

Anschluss

Union between Austria + Germany

appeasement

the making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war

Axis Powers

In WW2, the nations of Germany, Italy, and Japan which had formed and alliance in 1936

Franciso Franco

Spain’s Facist Dictator

Third Reich

the 3rd German empire, established by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s

Munich Conference

a 1938 meeting of representatives from Britain, France, Italy, and Germany agreed to allow Nazi, Germany to annex part of Czechslovakia new borders (Sudtenland)

isolationism

a poilcy of avoiding politcal of military involvment with otherb countries

nonaggression pact

an aggrement in which nations promise not to attack