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12 Cards in this Set
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Joseph Stalin |
Seized power and established a brutal totalitarian dictatorship. |
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Benito Mussolini |
Rose to power as the fascist party seized power |
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Adolf Hitler |
Nazi leader, established a dictatorship determined to achieve German domination |
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Collective security |
Peaceful nations would band together to stop aggressors. |
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Neutrality acts |
Prohibited Americans from traveling on the ships of nations at war.Americans were also barred from selling arms to countries at war. |
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Quarantine speech |
FDR told the nation that peaceful countries had to act together to quarantine(isolate) aggressive nations. |
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Flying Tigers |
US volunteer pilots, recruited to fly in supplies and to engage in combat with Japanese pilots. |
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Destroyer for Bases Agreement |
US exchanged 50 naval destroyers for rights on lands Britain had previously posessed. |
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Lend-Lease Act |
FDR proposed act to sell, lease, or lend war materials to any country the president saw as vital to the defense of the U.S. |
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Winston Churchill |
British Prime Minister |
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Atlantic Charter |
Announced U.S and Britain wanted no territorial gain, sought freedom of the seas, and an end to war. |
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United Nations |
International organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among member countries. |
