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24 Cards in this Set
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Joseph Stanlin |
whos last name means "Man of Steel" took control of the country. |
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totalitarian |
government that tried to exert complete control over its citizens. |
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Benito Mussolini |
was establishing a totalitarian regime in Italy, where unemployment and infiltration produced bitter strikes, some of which were communist led. |
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Adolf Hitler |
had followed a path to power similar to Mussolini's |
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Nazism |
the German brand of fascism, was based on extreme nationalism |
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Francisco Franco |
rebelled against the Spanish republic |
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Neutrality Act |
the first two acts outlawed arms sales of loans to nations at war. |
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Neville chamberlain |
to meet with him in Munich. |
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Winston Churchill |
chamberlain's political rival in Great Britain. |
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Appeasement |
or giving up principles to pacify an aggressor. |
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nonaggression pact |
a paper that was signed between hitler and Russia on August 23, 1939. |
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blitzkrieg |
lightning war |
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Charles De Gualle |
a french general |
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Holocaust |
the systematic murder of 6 million Jews across Europe |
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Kristallnacht |
or "Night of Broken Glass," it was when the german NAZI's attacked the shops of the jewish people. |
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genocide |
the deliberate and systematic killing of an entire population. |
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ghetto |
segregated Jewish areas in certain Polish cities. |
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concentration camp |
labor camps. |
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Axis Powers |
Germany, Italy and Japan |
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Lend - Lease Act |
was passed in march 1941 |
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Atlantic Charter |
a declaration made by Roosevelt and Churchill. |
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Allies |
those nations that fought the axis powers. |
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Hideki Tojo |
chief of staff of Japan's Kwantung Army launched the invasion into China. |
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fascism |
stressed nationalism and placed the interest of the state above those of individuals. |
