Took place in Germany after WWI due to the government printing off large amounts of money because of the reparations clause in the Treaty of Versailles.

"Il Duce" Fascist dictator of Italy (1922-1943).

A political theory that states that the state is more important then the individual.

Used as a means to keep power and control the populations.

Fascist

encouraged to have and raise children for the Italian state.

The Nuremberg Laws were anti-Jewish statutes enacted in Germany by the Nazis

An international organization formed to promote international peace.

A political and ideological divide between the democratic "West" and the communist "East" under the influence of the USSR; this was NOT an actual wall or barrier.

The channeling of a nation's entire resources into a war effort.

A form of government in which the leader has absolute power and authority.

A theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control. Countries would fall to communism like "dominoes."

Jews, Gypsies, Poles, homosexuals, disabled people.

Truman Doctrine

Military alliance created in 1949 made up of 12 non-Communist countries including the United States that support each other if attacked by USSR or other communist nation.

A wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep East Berliners/East German citizens from escaping to the West Berlin and West Germany.

Hitler's program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people; the Holocaust.

Marshall Plan

"Iron Curtain"

A conflict in which two opposing countries "fight" by supporting (troops, money, supplies) smaller countries fight an actual war. This is like the US and USSR during the Korean, Vietnam, and Soviet Afghan Wars

Joint effort by the US and Britain to fly food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet blocked off all ground routes into the city.

The other side tried to create a better weapon.

This was an agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939 in which the two nations promised not to fight each other and to divide up land in Eastern Europe.

The mutual defense alliance between the Soviet Union and seven satellite countries in Eastern Europe. This was created in response to the formation of NATO.

The US and the USSR

Treaty that ended WW I; It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishments on Germany; Led to political and economic instability in Germany, and allowed for Hitler to rise to power.

Sent German troops into the Rhineland, an area in Western Germany along the border with France. Rearmed the military.

Yuri Gagarin

Giving in to an aggressor to avoid conflict

The first man-made satellite launched into space by the USSR.

A US strategy of keeping communism within its existing borders and preventing further expansion.

Hitler invades because he needs the oil fields, he wants to embarrass Stalin, 2nd major loss for Germany

Surprise Attack that brings US into War

A barrier created by East Germany that surrounded West Germany to keep East Germans from leaving East Germany to West Germany through West Berlin.

During the Munich Conference of 1938, Britain and France met with Hitler, allowing him to take over the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia as long as he agreed to expand no further and to avoid war.

NATO

Laws designed to keep the United States out of future wars in Europe.

Germany was divided into East and West Germany

Germany's annexation of Austria

The Blitz was the sustained bombing of London, Britain by Nazi Germany for months at a time. War II. Germans bombed London for 57 straight nights. People of Great Britain maintained their spirit and relentlessness during

A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union (both world super powers). The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years.

The harsh winter weather conditions.

Code name for the U.S. effort during World War II to produce the atomic bomb.

The agreement between the US and Russia that neither side could win a nuclear war. If either launched an attack, the other would respond with an attack, resulting in massive losses and destruction for both sides

Invasion of Normandy (D-Day) Allied invasion of Europe. Puts Germany on the defensive for the rest of WWII.

First person in space; First Satellite in Space; First Space Walk; All of these were firsts in space.

Lightening War