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20 Cards in this Set
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dictators
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leaders who control their nation by force.
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fascism
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extreme nationalism and racism and is popular Italy.
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Benito Mussolini
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rose to power by appealing to the resentment of many Italians who felt they had not won enough in the Versailles treaty.
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Fascist Party
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gained enough strength to force the king of Italy to declare Mussolini the head of the government.
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II Duce
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put an end to democratic rule in Italy.
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Ethiopia
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Mussolini sent Italian forces to invade this African Nation
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annexed
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ones who take over own territory
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Nazi Party
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Known as National Socialist German Workers Party
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anti-Semitism
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hatred of the Jews and would lead to unspeakable horrors.
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Totalitarian
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a single party and its leader suppress all opposition and control all aspects of peoples lives
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Manchuria
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In September 1931 japan launched an attack here in northeast China.
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Joseph Stalin
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he rose to power as a Communist leader of the Soviet Union.
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Neutrality Acts
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banned the sale of weapons to nations at war.
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Austria
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was Hitlers next victim.
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Rhineland
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Hitler began moving forward and ordered his troops to go here.
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Sudetenland
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This is where Hitler turned next.
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appeasement
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when Britain and France thought that they avoid war by accepting Germany's demands
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Munich Conference
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leaders here agreed to turn the Sudetenland over to Germany.
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Neville Chamberlain
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British prime minister who returned home to cheering crowds declaring that the agreement had preserved "peace for our time".
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Soviet-German-Non-Aggression Pact
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freed Hitler to use force against Poland without fear of soviet intervention.
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