WW2 Vocab

2. Military dictator of China during WWII (his White Army also fought a civil war against the communist red army and was defeated in 1949)
5. dictatorial government that stresses the greatness of a race or nation.
7. Emperor of Japan during WWII
11. Once in control, these leaders became dictators who claimed absolute power and ruled their people by force.
13. To get something.
14. Britain and France agreed to let Germany take the Sudetenland, hoping to satisfy Hitler's demands and preserve peace. Czechoslovakia was not invited and forced to accept.
17. Pact Hitler and Stalin signed the Soviet-German Nonaggression Pact in August 1939. This left Hitler free to attack Poland without fear of a Soviet response.

1. To have a group of people to strive to a goal.
3. a centrally planned economic and political system designed to make all equal but led by a dictator
4. The hatred of Jews.
6. The Communist leader of the Soviet Union.
8. The Versailles treaty forbade Germany from having troops in this area.
9. Prime Minister of Japan during WWII
10. a small industrial region in SW Germany, made independent in the ToV, chose to rejoin Germany via a referendum in 1935 -- first land retaken by Germany since the ToV
12. The first dictator to rise in postwar.
15. They thought they could avoid the outbreak of war by giving in to Germany's demands.
16. The bloodless takeover and annexation of Austria into the Third Reich (Hitler’s German Empire) in 1938