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What is Depression?
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A severe slowdown in bussiness characterized by high unemployment and falling prices
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What id Bitzkrieg?
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The "lightning of war" Used by the Germans in World War II, which made full use of the weapons of modem war in order to win quick victories.
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What is the Holocaust?
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The deliberate killing of millions of jewish people by the Nazis during world war II
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What is a concentration Camp?
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Atype of prison built by the Nazis in which millions of people were murdered.
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Who Was Adlof Hitler?
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1889-1945 German dictator, leader of Germany and the Nazis party from 1933 to 1945.
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Who is Joseph Stalin?
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1879-1953 soviet revolutionary leader and dicator, Ruled the soviet Union from 1924 to 1953, turned the soviet Union into a totalian nation.
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Who is Winston churchill?
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1874-1965 Britsh prime minister from 1940 to 1945 and from 1951-1955, led the British people in the fight against Hitler during world war II.
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Who was Franklin Rosevelt?
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1882-1945 British persidents of the United States from 1933-1945 led the country through world war II.
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Who Was Ann Frank?
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1929-1945, A young German girl killed in the Nazi concentration camp. Her diary shows her great courage.
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The Axis Powers
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Germany, Italy, and Japan
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Allied Forces
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Great Britain, United States, and the Soviet Union.
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Nazi
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a member of the national socialist partly led by Hitler.
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Anti- Semitism
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prejudice against the Jewish people.
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Ghetto
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a part of a city in Europe where Jews were forced to live.
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Swastika
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A symbol of the Nazi party.
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