Modern American History: Chapter 24: World War Looms

Leader of USSR: wanted a model communist state. Responsible for deaths of 8-10 million people:

Declaration of war aims by Churchill and FDR which pledged economic cooperation, security, etc.

Made up of Germany, Italy and Japan. Signed a mutual defense treaty called the Tripartite Pact.

Isolationist plan allowed FDR to lend supplies to any country whose defense was vital to the US

Policy of giving up principles in order to pacify an aggressor.

Party that stressed nationalism & placed the interests of the state above those of individuals.

Japanese general and prime minister of Japan during much of WWII.

The deliberate and systematic killing of an entire population. Ex: the Holocaust

Move in campaign for racial purity, the systematic murder of 11 million people in Europe

Type of government that exerts complete control over its citizens: individuals have no rights

Man who established a totalitarian regime in Italy: 1921 established the Fascist Party.

Led the rebellion against the Spanish republic causing revolts and the Spanish Civil War.

German chancellor who wanted to enforce racial "purification". Established the Third Reich.

Germany was able to use this new military strategy in the invasion of Poland (aka lighting war)

The group of nations that fought the Axis Powers .

Chamberlain's political rival: disagreed w/signing Munich Pact, saw it as shameful appeasement

A series of acts passed by Congress in effort to keep the US out of future wars.

Jews were herded onto trains for shipment to _ _ or labor camps.

Segregated Jewish areas in Polish cities. They were dismal, overcrowded and sealed off by Nazis

Surprising agreement between Poland and USSR in which they promised never to attack each other.

After the fall of France, he fled to England to set up a government-in-exile.

The "Night of the Broken Glass" in which Nazis attacked Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues

German brand of fascism that was based on extreme nationalism. Goal was to create German empire

British prime minister who signed the Munich Agreement in an attempt to appease Hitler.