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30 Cards in this Set
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Benito Mussolini |
Italian fascist dictator |
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Fascism |
political philosophy that advocates a strong nationalistic dictatorship |
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Adolf Hitler |
German dictator , Nazi party head |
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Joseph Stalin |
communist dictator of the soviet union |
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Axis |
the Rome-Berlin Axis, the alliance between Mussolini and Hitler, later joined by Japan |
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Neville Chamberlain |
Prime minister of Great Britain , made Munich Agreement with Hitler |
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appeasement |
meeting demand of a hostile power in order to avoid war |
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blitzkrieg |
German " lightning war" tactics |
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Lend-Lease Act |
allowed the United States to lend weapons to the Allies |
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Pearl Harbor |
U.S. naval base attacked by Japanese forces on Dec. 7,1941 |
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Hideki Tojo |
Prime and War minister of Japan |
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Infamy |
evil fame or reputation |
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War Production Board |
government agency set up during World War 2 to coordinate the production of military equipment and supplies |
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A. Philip Randolph |
African-American labor leader active during World War 2 |
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Braceros |
Mexican workers hired to preform farm labor during World War 2 |
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Tuskegee Airmen |
famous segregated unit of African-American pilots |
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Rosie the Riveter |
a character who symbolized women in manufacturing jobs |
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Japanese-American Internment |
the removal of Japanese-Americans from the west to prison camps during World War 2 |
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Nisei |
Japanese-Americans born in the United States |
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Gross National Product |
total value of all the goods and services produced by a nation during a year |
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Rationing |
the distribution of scarce resources and products |
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War Bonds |
loans that the government promised to repay with interest |
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D-day |
Allied invasion of France on June 6,1944 |
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General Erwin Rommel |
German commander in North Africa |
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General Dwight D. Eisenhower |
supreme Allied commander in Europe |
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Stalingrad |
Soviet City where the German army was forced to surrender after a battle that lasted for months |
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Battle of the Bulge |
final German assault in December,1944 in Ardennes region of Belgium and Luxembourg |
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Yalta Conference |
conference where Allies planned the post-war world |
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Holocaust |
Nazi German crime of killing more than 11 million Jews and other persecuted peoples in concentration camps |
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Anti-Semitism |
prejudice against Jews |
