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39 Cards in this Set
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Isolationism
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Withdrawal from world affairs
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Disarmament
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Reducing the size of a country's military
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Emily Greene Bach
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Leader of the women's movement that played an important role in the peace efforts
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Washington Conference
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An international conference in Washington D.C. that focused on naval disarmament and Pacific security
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Charles Evans Hughes
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Secretary of state who organized the Washington Conference
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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Treaty outlawed war but allowed countries to go to war in self defense; 62 countries signed this
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Adolf Hitler
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Survived a poison gas attack during the war and was convinced that politicians, not the German army, were responsible for Germany losing the war
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Emiliano Chamorro
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General who overthrew the government in Nicaragua, sparking a bitter civil war
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Henry Stimson
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A long-time public official who was sent in to try to stop Nicaragua's civil war
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Augusto César Sandino
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A general who opposed Chamorro, who refused to accept Stimson's proposal
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Adolfo Díaz
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Chamorro's successor
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Anastasio Somoza
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Commander of the U.S. trained National Guard; ordered Sandino's assassination
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Good Neighbor Policy
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Roosevelt's policy of mutual respect towards Latin America
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Lázaro Cárdenas
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Mexico's president who nationalized the country's oil industry
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Nationalize
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Assert government control over
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Josephus Daniels
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The U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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Caudillos
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Military leaders who used force to maintain order
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Benito Mussolini
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Founded the Fascist Party in 1921 to promote his rise to power
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Fascist Party
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They believed that a military-dominated government should control all aspects of society
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Blackshirts
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Mussolini's followers; their uniforms were black; led into Rome
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Joseph Stalin
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The Soviet Union's leader; emerged by assassinating his enemies and using underhanded tactics
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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; won 40% pf te vote in national elections
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Brownshirts
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Nazi storm troopers who crushed all political opposition; their uniforms were brown
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Anti-Semitism
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Hatred of Jews
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Kristallnacht
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"The night of broken glass"; Nazi thugs burned down synagogues and destroyed Jewish businesses
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Francisco Franco
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General who united several conservative military men
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Popular Front
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An international alliance of organizations united against facism
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Axis Powers
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Germany, Italy and Japan
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Munich Conference
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Four leaders signed a pact giving 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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Politician of Great Britain who feared that appeasement would encourage Hitler to seize additional territory
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Nonaggression pact
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Agreement between Hitler and Stalin not to attack one another and to divide Poland
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Allied Powers
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Britain and France
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Lend-Lease Act
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It appropriated $7 billion for ships, planes, tanks and other supplies to non-Axis countries
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Blitzkrieg
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"Lightning War"
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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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A joint pledge to not pursue territorial expansion between Roosevelt and Churchill
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Hideki Tōjō
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Minister of war who became prime minister of Japan
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