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38 Cards in this Set
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isolationism
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withdrawal from all world affairs
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disarmament
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reducing the size of a countries military
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Emily Greene Balch
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a leader in woman movement that played a big part in peace efforts
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Washington Conference
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an international conference held in washington D.C.
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Charles Evans Hughes
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1921 us secretary of state that organized the washington conference
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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it outlawed war as a instrument of national policy
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Adolf Hitler
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the man that really started the war and hated jews blaming them for the loss of WW1
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Emiliano Charmorro
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over threw government causing a civil war in Nicaragua
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Henry Stimson
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a long time official that tried to negotiate the end of the civil war
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Augusto Cesarsandino
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a general who opposed chammorro and refused to accept Stimson's proposal
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Adolfo Diaz
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Chamorro's succesor
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Anastasio Somoza
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a general who ordered Sandino's assassination
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Good Neighbor Policy
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1938 Mexican president
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Josephus Daniels
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1938 US ambassador of mexico argues for compromise between mexican government and oil companies
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cauidllos
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in the 1930's they took power in many litin american countries
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Benito Musslini
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he founde the facist party in order to destroy communist party and promoted his own rise to power
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Fascist party
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believed that a military driven government should control all aspects of society
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Blackshirts
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Mussolini's army and followers were nicknamed this because of the color of the uniforms they wore
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Joseph Stalin
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using underhanded tactics and even organizing the assassinations of his enemies he eventually became the nations leader for communist party leaders
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nationalize
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assert government control over
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totalitarian state
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a country where government has complete control
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Nazi party
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Hitlers national socialist party that won nearly 40% of the vote in the national elections
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brownshirts
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Nazi stormtroopers called this because of their color of their shirts
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anti- semitism
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hatred of jews
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popular front
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an international alliance of organizations united against fascism
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Francisco Franko
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a general
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Kristallnacht
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also know as the night of broken glass violence showed the fate of european jews and others whom hitler opposed
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axis powers
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Germany Italy And Japan alliance
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munich conference
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a pact that gave germany control of Sudetenland
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appeasement
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giving demands in order to avoid larger conflict
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Winston Churchill
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a politician of britain that feared appeasement would encourage hitler to seize additional territory
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nonaggression pact
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stalin and hitler agreed not to attack eachother
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allied powers
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britan american and france
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lend lease act
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the american allowed the british an allied powers to boroow their items for a price
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Blitzkrieg
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lightning war aginst poland
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Maginot line
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a line of defences along the french boarder line
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Atlantic charter
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a pleadeg nor to seek territorial expansion
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Hideki Tojo
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a minister of war who becam minister of japan in october 1941
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