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37 Cards in this Set
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Isolationism
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Withdrawal from foreign affairs
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Disarmament
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To reduce the size of the army
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Emily Green Balch
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Leader of the womans movement
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Washington Conference
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An interventional conference in Washington D.C.
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Charles Evans Hughes
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U.S. Secretary ofbstate
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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Eventually 62 countries signed
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Adolf Hitler
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Crazy sociopathic madman bound on world domination and the entire extinction of the jewish religion/faith
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Emiliano Chamorro
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Overthrew the government sparking a civil war in Nicaragua
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Henry Stimson
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A long-time public official to negotiate an end ti the civil war
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Auguste César Sandino
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A general who opposed Chamorro
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Adolfo Díaz
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Hoped to red Nicaragua of Americans
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Anastasio Somoza
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Ordered Sandino's assassination
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Good Neighbor Policy
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A sign of good respect toward the Latino countries
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Lázaro Cárdenas
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Mexican president
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Nationalize
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Assert governmental control over the countries oil industry
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Josephus Daniels
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Argued for a compromise between the Mexican government and the oil companies
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Cuadillos
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Took power in many Latin American countries
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Benito Mussolini
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Founder fo the Fascist party in 1921
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Fascist Party
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Believed that a military-dominated government should control all aspects of society
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Blackshirts
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Mussolini lead his army known as the blackshirts for their uniform
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Joseph Stalin
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Russian leader forcing people to take sides wi the Germans and the Italians
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Totalitarian state
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A country where the government has conplete control
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Nazi Party
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Won nearly 40 percent of the vote in national elections
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Brownshirts
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Because of the color of their uniform, crushed all political opposition
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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
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Fransisco Franco
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General leadership
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Popular Front
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An international alliance of organizations
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Axis Powers
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Military alliances
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Munich Conference
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Signed a pact givingnGermany 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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Feared that appeasement would encourage Hitler to seize additional territories
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Nonagression pact
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Stalin signed this with him
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Allied Power
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Aother allied military
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Lend-Lease Act
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In March 1941
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Blitzkreig
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Or lightning war
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Maginot Line
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A line of defensesmalong the French border
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