The Rise of Facsism and the Start of WW2

The political police of Nazi Germany.

• Black Shirts

• Lebensraum

• Gestapo

• Schutzstaffel

Match the following leaders to their country

• Nazi Germany

• Adolf Hitler

• Spain

• Hirohito

• Italy

• Francisco Franco

• Japan

• Benito Mussolini

The black-uniformed elite corps and self-described “political soldiers” of the Nazi Party

• Black Shirts

• Gestapo

• Schutzstaffel

• Lebensraum

Members of any of the armed squads of Italian Fascists under Benito Mussolini

• Black Shirts

• Gestapo

• Schutzstaffel

• Lebensraum

“Living space”—the additional territory that, according to Adolf Hitler, Germany needed because it was overcrowded.

• Black Shirts

• Gestapo

• Schutzstaffel

• Lebensraum

A political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism and militarism.

• Isolationism

• Nazism

• Facsism

• Mein Kampf

The fascist policies of the National Socialist German Workers’ party, based on totalitarianism, a belief in racial superiority, and state control of industry.

• Isolationism

• Nazism

• Facsism

• Mein Kampf

Match the following items to the best answer

• The Third Reich

• the Third German Empire, established by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s.

• Appeasement

• a policy of avoiding political or military involvement with other countries.

• Mein Kampf

• a 1938 meeting of representatives from Britain, France, Italy, and Germany, at which Britain and France agreed to allow Nazi Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia in return for Adolf Hitler’s pledge to respect Czechoslovakia’s new borders.

• Munich Conference

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

• Isolationism

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

In World War II, the nations of Germany, Italy, and Japan, which had formed an alliance in 1936.

• Axis Powers

• Central Powers

• Allies

• Militarists