Axis Powers - correct answer ✔✔in World War II, the nations of Germany, Italy, and Japan, which had
formed an alliance in 1936.
Allied Powers - correct answer ✔✔France, Britain, USSR, United States, and China as well as 45 other
countries that opposed the Axis powers in World War II
Gestapo - correct answer ✔✔the secret police force of the German nazi state, notorious for its terrorism
and brutality
Totalitarianism - correct answer ✔✔A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not
restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Fascism - correct answer ✔✔a political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism
and racism and has no tolerance for opposition
Pacifism - correct answer ✔✔opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes
appeasement - correct answer ✔✔practice of giving in to an aggressor nation's demands in order to
keep peace
Czechoslovakia - correct answer ✔✔The Division of Austria-Hungary following WWI resulted in creating
this country that was split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Sudetenland - correct answer ✔✔German-speaking area of Czechoslovakia, Given to Germany because
of an Appeasement Policy used by Chamberlain at the Munich Conference in September 1938.
Nazi-Soviet Pact - correct answer ✔✔Hitler and Joseph Stalin agreed not to attack each other but
divided Poland for an easy win, but Germany didn't keep true to their word and attacked Stalin later.
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