World War 2 vocab and events

Policy based on belief that if European powers satisfied the reasonable demands of dissatisfied powers, they would be content and stability and peace would be achieved in Europe.

• Appeasement

• Demilitarize

• Genocide

• Sanction

"Lightening war," used by Hitler in which armored columns pushed forward and were protected by plane cover

• Kamikaze

• Genocide

• Sanctions

• Blitzkrieg

The practice of giving in to aggression in order to avoid war.

• Genocide
• Mein Kampf
• Appeasement
• Blitzkrieg

Why was the Soviet Union not prepared to fight Germany during World War 2?

• Nonaggression Pact

• Stalin and Hitler were good friends

• Extreme weather

• Lebensraum

Leaders who assert that nations' best interests are best served by keeping the affairs of other countries at a distance are enforcing what kind of policy?

• isolationism

• pacifism

• disarmament

• nationalism

Forceful and sometimes overly assertive pursuit of a nation's aims and interests

• aggression

• pacifism

• disarmament

• nationalism

A form of government that prohibits opposition parties, restricts opposition to the state and exercises an extremely high degree of control over public and private life

• totalitarianism

• pacifism

• democracy

• absolute monarcy

Opposition to war, militarism, or violence.

• pacifism

• militarism

• disarmament

• nationalism

Add territory to one's own territory by appropriation, force.

• annexed

• blitzkrieg

• aggression

• nationalism

The reduction or withdrawal of military forces and weapons

• disarmament

• pacifism

• appeasement

• aggression