Chapter 25
Chapter 25 Notes
Hard Facts:
Manchuria: Japan takes over the providence of Manchuria, China, in 1931. Due to this the League of Nations began to fail. Shortly after Japan withdrew from the leave and took over the rest of China. Due to this the threat in Asia and the Pacific increased. This was the first event leading up to the war.
Benito Mussolini: Italian Fascist who became dictator. He supported the World War and joined forces with Nazi Germany to for the Rome-Berlin Axis.
Nazis: National Socialist party led by Adolf Hitler. He combined militaristic ideas and a racist idea of Aryan supremacy believing that nonwhites and Jews were lesser races.
Ethiopia: Italy began to act on its imperialistic vision and invaded Ethiopia and claimed the kingdom as a colony
Francisco Franco: Spanish Fascist General during the Spanish civil war who became dictator and called for a non-belligerent approach to the war.
Rome-Berlin Axis: A formal Alliance between Italy and Germany
Nuremburg laws: Laws denying civil right laws to Jews
Kristallnacht: November 9, 1938 also known as “The Night of Broken Glass”. Nazi police took Jews in their sleep beating and murdering other. They also smashed the windows of Jewish shops, hospitals, orphanages, and burned all synagogues to the ground.
Blitzkrieg: German war tactic in WWII (“lightning war”) involving the concentration of air and armored power to punch and exploit holes in opposing defensive lines.
Neutrality Acts: permitted the sale of weapons to Britain, France, and China
Lend-Lease Act: An arrangement for the transfer of war supplies, including food, machinery, and services to nations whose defense was considered vital to the defense of the United States in WWII
Atlantic Charter: Statement of common principles and war aims developed by President FDR and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at a meeting in August 1941
War Powers Act: Act that gave the U.S. President the power to reorganize the federal government and
Hard Facts:
Manchuria: Japan takes over the providence of Manchuria, China, in 1931. Due to this the League of Nations began to fail. Shortly after Japan withdrew from the leave and took over the rest of China. Due to this the threat in Asia and the Pacific increased. This was the first event leading up to the war.
Benito Mussolini: Italian Fascist who became dictator. He supported the World War and joined forces with Nazi Germany to for the Rome-Berlin Axis.
Nazis: National Socialist party led by Adolf Hitler. He combined militaristic ideas and a racist idea of Aryan supremacy believing that nonwhites and Jews were lesser races.
Ethiopia: Italy began to act on its imperialistic vision and invaded Ethiopia and claimed the kingdom as a colony
Francisco Franco: Spanish Fascist General during the Spanish civil war who became dictator and called for a non-belligerent approach to the war.
Rome-Berlin Axis: A formal Alliance between Italy and Germany
Nuremburg laws: Laws denying civil right laws to Jews
Kristallnacht: November 9, 1938 also known as “The Night of Broken Glass”. Nazi police took Jews in their sleep beating and murdering other. They also smashed the windows of Jewish shops, hospitals, orphanages, and burned all synagogues to the ground.
Blitzkrieg: German war tactic in WWII (“lightning war”) involving the concentration of air and armored power to punch and exploit holes in opposing defensive lines.
Neutrality Acts: permitted the sale of weapons to Britain, France, and China
Lend-Lease Act: An arrangement for the transfer of war supplies, including food, machinery, and services to nations whose defense was considered vital to the defense of the United States in WWII
Atlantic Charter: Statement of common principles and war aims developed by President FDR and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at a meeting in August 1941
War Powers Act: Act that gave the U.S. President the power to reorganize the federal government and