SS WWII

• Another word to describe a dictatorship. 
• Leaders had absolute power
• Only one ideology was allowed
• To be no opposition
• Citizens had no human rights

• The dictator of Italy in WWII
• Formed the facist party in Italy & the Blackshirts
• Invaded Ethiopia

• Mussolini threatened to overthrow the government
• Gathered 26000 people and formed the Blackshirts
• Gathered at the outskirts of Rome
• Demanded the Italian government to be turned over
• King Emmanuel handed it over to avoid a civil war

• A democracy in Germany 
• Was supposed to help with the peacemaking process created by the new leaders when the Kaiser fled Germany

The increase of prices on goods & the decrease of a country's currency value

• The leader of the Nazis
• Became leader from from 1933-1945

the German Socialist Workers' Party

to dislike/hate Jewish people

someone punished for the errors of others

Gave Hitler absolute power

• Hitler murdered 1000 people who who opposed him
• Suppressed any further opposition

• Harsh & Unjust measures against Jews
• i. They had to wear the Star of David at all times
• ii. They lost their professions and their property
• iii. Could not mingle with the German population
• iv. Lost their citizenships

Nazis encouraged the Germans to attack Jews & their property. Jewish shops were attacks, windows were smashed, and Jews were beaten in public, and many were imprisoned for no reason.

• The secret police
• Became all powerful
• Patrolled Germany and countries they invaded

The leader of Germany (Hitler)

Stalin's plans to modernze & industrialize the country

Anyone considered an enemy of his goals were excuted

A policy where a country becomes aggressive, and other countries give the aggressor what it wants to prevent war

The non-aggression pact. Germans would not attack Russia, and vice-versa. Both parties had time to develop their countries.

Nazis used airplanes to knock out key enemy positions which was immediately followed by tanks and motorized infantry attacks

Compulsory enlistment into the military

Everyone declared war on each other, but no one was fighting, b/c it was too cold, however they were gearing up for war.

900 ships sailed from England and rescued 340,000 soldiers from Dunkirk; saved British soldiers

British Royal Air Force

The German Air Force

Airspace battle between German and Britain

Daylight bombing raids on London

• 5000 Canadian soldiers landed at Dieppe on the coast of France
• Objective was to take the beach and the town back from the Germans
• Upon arrival, soldiers were mowed down on the beach by German fire

• A massive invasion of the Soviet Union
• Germany's betrayal to the USSR

• Battle between the Italians and the British
• A decisive victory for the Allies
• First time to defeat one of the fascist countries

• Fought for the control of the shipping lanes between North America and Britain
• Germany cut off all Allied supplies to Britain

German submarines

Merchant ships surrounded by destroyers for protection

Royal Canadian Navy

Small warships

Detected enemy submarines

• Battle between Germany and USSR
• Second turning point battle of WWII