WWII Vocab Review

A political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and has no tolerance for opposition

• Dictator

• Facism

• Nazism

• Totalitarianism

A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)

• Facism

• Democracy

• Appeasement

• Totalitarianism

A policy of making concessions to an aggressor in the hopes of avoiding war. Associated with Neville Chamberlain's policy of making concessions to Adolf Hitler.

• Appeasement

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• Genocide

• Isolationism

Agreement between Chamberlain and Hitler that Germany would not conquer any more land.

• Allies

• Berlin Conference

• Munich Agreement

• Axis

Alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II.

• Axis

• Central

• Allies

• Blitzkrieg

Alliance of France, Britain, USSR, United States during World War II.

• Axis

• Central

• Allies

• Blitzkrieg

meaning lightning war this was a new military tactic in WWII that relied on a fast air and land combined strike to take the enemy by surprise

• Kristallnacht

• Purge

• Blitzkrieg

• Carpet bombing

the day the Allied Powers began to invade Western Europe

• Blitzkrieg

• Puppet state

• D-Day

• Holocaust

discrimination and hostilities directed at Jews

• Anti-Semitism

• Nazism

• Fascism

• Isolationism

A weapon that produces tremendous power by splitting atoms

• Marshall Plan

• Atomic bomb

• Genocide

• D-Day