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39 Cards in this Set
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isolationism
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policy of partial withdrawal from world affairs, in the 1920s and 1930s
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disarmament
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reducing the size of a country's military
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Emily Greene Balch
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leader of the women's movement, who played important role in the peace efforts
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Washington Conference
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international conference that focused on naval disarmament and Pacific security
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Charles Evans Hughes
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secretary of state and organizer of the Washington Conference
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Kellog- Briand Pact
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treaty, that outlawed war "as an instrument of national policy" but allowed countries to go to war in self-defense
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Adolf Hitler
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german World War 1 veteran and joined a radical political organization and hatched a plot to overthrow the German government
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Emiliano Chamorro
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General, who overthrew the government, sparking a civil war in Nicaragua
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Henry Stimson
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long-time public official, who negotiated an end to the civil war
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Augusto César Sandino
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General, who opposed Chamorro, refused to accept Stimson's proposal
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Adolfo Diaz
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Chamorro's successor
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Anastasio Somoza
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General who ordered Sandino's assassination
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Good Neighbor policy
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FDR's policy of mutual respect toward Latin America
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Lázaro Cárdenas
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Mexican President who nationalized the country's oil industry
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nationalize
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assert government control over an industry
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Josephus Daniels
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U.S ambassador to Mexico, who argued for a compromise between the mexican government and oil companies
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caudillos
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military leaders who used force to maintain order took power in many Latin american countries
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Benito Mussolini
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Italian leader who destroyed the Communist Party and promoted his own rise to power with the Fascist Party
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Fascist Party
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Political Party, founded by Mussolini, that believed that a military- dominant government should control all aspects of society
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Blackshirts
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army of Mussolini's followers, marched into Rom
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Joseph Stalin
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Leader of the Soviet Union and turned the nation into a totalitarian state
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totalitarian state
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a country where the government has complete control
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Nazi Party
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Adolf Hitler's National Socialist Party
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Brownshirts
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Nazi storm troopers with a certain kind of color for their uniform, who crushed all political opposition
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anti- semitism
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religious prejudices against jews and Hitler's official government policy
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Kristallnacht
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"the night of broken glass", where Nazis burned down synagogues and destroyed Jewish businesses
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Francisco Franco
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Spanish General who wanted to overthrow the government with a fascistic army
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Popular Front
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international alliance of organizations united against fascism
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Axis Power
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Military Alliance between Germany and Italy and later Japan
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Munich Conference
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pact by Germany, Italy, England, France to give Germany control of the Sudetenland
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appeasement
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giving in to demands in an attempt to avoid a larger conflict
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Winston Churchill
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British Politics, who feared that the appeasement would encourage Hitler to seize additional territory
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nonaggression pact
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Pact between Hitler and Stalin about the divide of Poland to Germany and the Soviet Union
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Allied Powers
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Britain and France became these powers and declared the WW2 to germany
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Lend-Lease Act
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Congress passed that to appropriate $t billion for ships, planes, tanks, and other supplies to non- Axis countries
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Blitzkrieg
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Hitler's War plan to conquer Poland
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Maginot Line
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a line of defenses along the French border with Germany
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Atlantic Charter
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Roosevelt and Churchill met secretly and passed a joint pledge to not pursue territorial expansion
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Hideki Tojo
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Japans prime minister, who committed his nation to expansion
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