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23 Cards in this Set
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totalitarianism
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theory of government in which a single party or leader controls the economic, social, and cultural lives of its people
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Joseph Stalin
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dictator and head of the Communist Party in Russia
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Benito Mussolini
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founder of the Fascist Party and Italian dictator
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Adolf Hitler
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leader of the Nazi Party in Germany who seized power and attempted world domination
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anti-Semitic
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prejudiced against Jewish people
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Spanish Civil War
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Spanish conflict fought from 1936 to 1939
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appeasement
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policy of granting concessions to a potential enemy in the hope that it will maintain peace
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Anschluss
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union in which Hitler forced Austria to become part of Germany’s territory
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Munich Pact
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agreement in which Britain and France attempted to preserve peace by allowing Hitler to take more territory
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blitzkrieg
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lightning war
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Axis Powers
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Germany, Italy, Japan, and other nations that fought together during World War II
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Allies
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Britain, France, the Soviet Union, the United States, China, and other nations that fought against the Axis Powers during World War II
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Winston Churchill
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British prime minister during World War II
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Neutrality Act of 1939
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American law that allowed nations at war to buy U.S. arms if they paid cash and carried them away on their own ships
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Tripartite Pact
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three-party agreement establishing an alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan
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Lend-Lease Act
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American law that allowed the U.S. to lend, lease, sell, or otherwise provide aid to other nations if doing so helped in the defense of the United States
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Atlantic Charter
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document signed by Roosevelt and Churchill that endorsed national self-determination and an international system of general security
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Hideki Tojo
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Japanese general and prime minister during World War II
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Pearl Harbor
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site in Hawaii of the United States Navy’s main Pacific base
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Women’s Army Corps (WAC)
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volunteer organization that provided clerical workers, truck drivers, instructors, and lab technicians for the army
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Douglas MacArthur
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general who served as commander of United States Army forces in Asia
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Bataan Death March
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grueling march in which Japanese troops forced sick and malnourished prisoners of war to walk more than 60 miles to prison camps
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Battle of Coral Sea
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battle that provided a strategic American victory and marked the key role of aircraft carriers and fighter planes in the war in the Pacific
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