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Vocab…Dictators

Funny mustachioed German dictator

Who is Adolf Hitler?

He used the black shirts to keep power in Italy

Who is Benito Mussolini?

This Soviet (Russian) dictator came up with a 5-

year plan to industrialize his

country

Who is Joseph Stalin?

Not really a dictator but he was a

Japanese emperor so he goes here

Who is Hirohito?

With all the support he gained from other

dictators you would think this Spaniard

would have given some back in WWII

Who is Francisco Franco?

The deliberate mass murder of a

particular racial, political, or cultural

group

What is genocide?

A camp where prisoners of war (and others) are

confined in a concentrated area

typically under harsh conditions

What is a concentration

camp?

This leader of the SS was put in charge of resettlement plans of the Jews (in charge

of concentration camps)

Who is Heinrich Himmler?

DAILY

DOUBLE

They were the first to liberate the death

camps

This was a destructive Nazi

rampage against the Jews; businesses were

destroyed

What is Kristallnacht?

“Lightning War”

What is blitzkrieg?

Highly centralized governments that do not allow opposition and maintain total

control

What are totalitarian

regimes?

Japanese for “divine wind”; very popular

at Okinawa

What is kamikaze?

The Communist party policy-making group

What is the Politburo?

Eliminate or prohibit weapons and military

installations; what we did to Japan following WWII

What is demilitarize?

A political philosophy that glorifies the state above the individual;

dictatorial ruler; taken from Latin word

What is fascism?

This leader combined his fascist

state with his country’s established traditions (including

the church)

Who is Mussolini?

The totalitarian leader who did not die a

violent death

Who is Stalin?

He led a corporatist state

Who is Mussolini?

The three secret police groups of each

fascist/communist leader (if you don’t get the

Russian dude’s group I’ll still give it to you)

What are SS brown shirts (Hitler), OVR

black shirts (Mussolini), and KGB

(Stalin)?

We call the day of Germany’s

surrender this

What is V-E Day?

When Japan attacked this Chinese territory we

supported China – setting up a reason for Japan bombing Pearl Harbor

What is Manchuria?

Of Guadalcanal, Midway, Stalingrad, El Alamein,

Coral Sea, and Iwo Jima, the battle that did not

take place in 1942

What is Iwo Jima?

The Munich Agreement illustrates this principle; giving an aggressor what

he wants in order to prevent conflict

What is appeasement?

France’s defense against Germany’s invasion (it

didn’t work)

What is the Maginot Line?