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51 Cards in this Set
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dictator
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a ruler with unrestricted power, without any democratic restrictions
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totalitarian state
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a dictatorship in which the government uses intimidation, violence, and propaganda to rule all aspects of the social and political life of its citizens
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five-year plans
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Stalin's plans for economic development in the Soviet Union over five years
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fascist
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a form of authoritarian government that is totalitarian and nationalistic
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Weimar Republic
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the democratic government in Germany after the First World War
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Nazis
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members of the National Socialist German Workers' Party; the Nazis were extreme nationalists who took power in 1922 and controlled every aspect of German life through a plice state
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Kristallnacht
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a coordinated attack against Jewish people and their property carried out by Nazis in Germany of Novermber 9, 1938
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persecustion
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to oppress or ill-treat because of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or beliefs
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Holocause
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the Nazi imprisonment and murder of 6 million Jewish people and 5 million other peoples during the Second World War
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policy of appeasement
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giving in to an aggressor's demands in the hopes that no more demands will be made
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non-aggression pact
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ab agreement between two countries not to attack each other
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isolationism
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the policy of remaining apart from the affairs of other countries
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refugee
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a person displaced from his of her home and territory by war and other acts of aggression
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anti-Semitism
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discrimination or hostility toward Jewish people
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deportation
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the act of sending someone back to his or her native land
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British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP)
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a program to train pilots and aircrew during the Second World War; it produced half of all Commonwealth aircrew and is the largest air training program in history
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Wartime Information Board
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board established in 1942 to coordinate wartime propaganda
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total war
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the mobilization of the entire resources of a nation for war
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Crown corporations
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businesses and industries owned by the Canadian government
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Allies
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countries fighting against Germany during the Second World War, including Britian, France, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and after 1941, the US and USSR
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Axis
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alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan
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blitzkreig
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German war tactic of surprise attacks by tanksand fighter planes
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Dunkirk
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port town in France from which a massive Allied evacuation took place in May 1940, when German forces conquered France
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Luftwaffe
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German air force
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the Blitz
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the heavy, frequent bombing attacks on London and other British cities by Nazi Germany
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Battle of Britian
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an air campaign launched in 1940 by the Royal Air Force to stop the Germans from achieving air superiority
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Operation Barbarossa
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Germany's unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941-1942, which broke the non-aggression pact and ultimately led to the Soviet Union joining the Allies
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Pearl Harbor
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the Japanese bombing of the US naval base in Hawaii
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Battle of Hong Kong
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Japan's attack on the British colony of Hong Kong in which there were heavy Canadian losses
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Black Christmas
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December 25, 1941, the date Hong Kong fell to the Japanese
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Battle of the Atlantic
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the struggle between the Allies and the Asix powers to control the Allies' shipping route across the Atlantic Ocean
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corvettes
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small, fast, warships built in Canada to help protect convoys in the Atlantic Ocean
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Bomber Command
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the section of the RAF that directed the strategic bombing of Germany
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Dieppe Raid
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the 1942 trail raid by Canadian troops against Germany's occupation of Dieppe; Canada suffered heavy losses
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Italian Campaign
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1943 Allied battles to recapture Europe from the south, through Sicily and Italy
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D-Day
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June 6, 1944; th eday Allied armies, including Canada, invaded France; the biggest Allied invation of the Second World War
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paratroopers
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soldiers trained to parachute from airplanes onto combat areas
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Juno Beach
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the nine-kilometre stretch of beach in France where Canadian troops landed on D-Day
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Manhattan Project
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the code name during the Second World War for the American plan to develop the first atomic bomb
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atomic bomb
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a bomb containing radioactive material, capable of destrying an entire city or region
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crimes against humanity
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widespread attacks against civilians, including murder, enslavement, deportation, and torture
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Final Solution
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the Nazis' plan to systematically kill all European Jews
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genocide
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the systematic estermination of a religious or ethnic group
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tribunal
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court of justice
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war crimes
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the killing, torture, and hostage-taking of civilian populations, or the deliberate and extensive destruction of their property
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"cradle to grave" social security
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social assistance provided by the government, brom birth to death
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National Resources Mobilization Act
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an Act pssed in 1940 enabling the government to do whatever was necessary for the war effort; it was amended in 1942 to allow conscription
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plebiscite
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a vote on a particular issue
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enemy aliens
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nationals living in a country that is at war with their homeland
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arsenal of democracy
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a slogan coined by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in December 1940 promising to help the Allies fight the Germans by providing military supplies while staying out of the actuall fighting
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war brides
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foreign women who married Canadian troops serving overseas and then immigrated to Canada after the war
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