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38 Cards in this Set
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coalition government
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temporary alliance of several parties
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Weimar Republic
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Germany's new democratic gov.
people blamed the gov. for defeat, because the W. gov. signed the Treaty of Versailles |
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Great Depression
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the severe economic slump that followed the collapse of the U.S. stock market
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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voted president after Depression began
began the New Deal program |
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New Deal
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large public works projects helped to provide jobs for the unemployed
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facism
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emphazies loyalty to the state and obedience to its leader
rivive economy and punish those who were responsible for hard times |
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Benito Mussolini
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promised to rescue Italy be reviving its economy and rebuilding its armed forces
founded Fascist party |
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Adolf Hitler
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manipulated people with his speeches and blammed the Jews for the cause of the war - responsible for the Holocaust
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Nazism
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brand of facism with the swastika as its symbol
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Mein Kampf
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book that set forth hitler's beliefs and goals for German
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Lebenstraum
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living space
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Nuremburg Laws
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laws that permitted Jews to own their own shops and many other things
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appeasement
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giving in to an aggressor to keep peace
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Axis Power
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Germany, Italy, and Japan
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Francisco Franco
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people who favored a Fascist-style governmtn jined general F.F. in revolt which let to civil war for years
Hitler and Mussolini sent things to help F's force resistance of Spain fell and Franco became Span's facist dictator. |
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Isolationism
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belief that political ties to other countries should be avoided
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Third Reich
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German Empire
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Munich Conference
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meeting of representatives from Britain, France, Italy, and Germany, at which Britain and France agreed to allow Nazi Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia in return for Adolf Hitler's pledge to respect Czech. borders
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nonagression pact
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an agreement that two countries will not attach eachother
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blitzkrieg
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using fast-moving airplanes and tanks, followed by massive infantry forces to take the enemy by surprise
"lightning war" |
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Charles de Gaulle
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French general who fled to London after France fell from Hitler
organized the Free French military forces that battled the Nazi's until France was liberated |
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Winston Churchill
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the new British prime minister said the nation would never give in
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Battle of Britain
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seris of battles between German and British air forces, foung over Britain
Hitler retreated and called off attacks |
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Atlantic Charter
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Roosevelt and Churchill issued a joint declaration
upheld free trade among nations and the right of people to choose their own government |
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Isoroku Yamaoto
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Japan's greatest naval strategist argued that the U.S. fleet in Hawaii must be destroyed
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Pearl Harbor
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Japanese sunk 18 ships in Hawaii and nearly the whole U.S. Pacific fleet
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Battle of Midway
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sea and air battle of World War II in which American forces defeated Japanese forces in the central pacific
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Battle of Guadalcanal
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Allied troops drove Japanese forces from the Pacific island of Guadalcanal
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Battle of Stalingrad
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German forces were defeated in their attempt to capture the city of Stalingrad in the Soviet union
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D-Day
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Allies began their invasion of the European mainland
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Kamikaze
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Japanese troops who sacrificed their lives for Japan in war
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Atomic bomb
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the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Nagasaki
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Nuremberg Trials
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court proceedings in Nuremberg, Germany for Nazi leaders for their war crimes
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Demilitarization
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disbanding the Japanese armed forces
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island Hoping
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Allies took the islands because they were not not well-guarded so they were successful in defeating Japan
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What is the region of Czechoslovakia that had large German population which Germany declared theirs
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Sudetenland
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the Evacuation of Dunker
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england forced to retreat from France and transport soldiers across English channel
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Dawes Act
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$200 million loan from American banks to stabilize German currency and strengthen its economy
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