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Fascism

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Authoritarian rule-government is above all

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Benito Mussolini

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Starts the Facist Party

1922 becomes Prime Minister of Italy

Organized the "Black Shirts"

Executed in 1945

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Black Shirts

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Terrorist group that influenced power by force

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II Duce

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Benito's nickname

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Weimar Republic

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New (post) WWI government

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Adolph Hitler

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Germany's lost WWI problems:

1. Dislike leadership

2. War-Guilt Clause

3. Disastrous Economy

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NAZI

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(1933-1945) - National Socialist German Workers Party

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Mein Kampf

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(My Struggle) - a book explaining Hitler's goals/ideology

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What were Hitlers beliefs to revive Germany?

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1. Nationalism

2. Expand Country

3. Eliminate Inferior Races

4. Strong leadership

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Fuhrer

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A ruthless leader

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Third Reich

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An empire whose goal was to dominate Europe for 1,000 years

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German Aggression

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1. Rebuilds Military

2. Sends troops into the Rhineland (1936)

3. Anschluss

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Gestapo

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A secret police whose goal was to root out opposers

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Nuremberg Laws

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Laws prohibiting Jews

1. Marrying non-Jews

2. Attending German schools

3. Holding government jobs

4. Publishing books

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Kristallnacht

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A nazi attack on Jews

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Anschluss

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Forced Union with Austria

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Munich Pact

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September 30, 1938

1. France and Britain negotiate a peace agreement with Germany

2. Germany allowed to have to Sudetenland/Europe gets peace

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Neville Chamberlain

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Prime minister of G.B before the war

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Appeasement

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Policy of giving in to an aggressors demands to keep peace

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Sudetenland

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Germany marches in

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Axis Powers

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Germany, Italy, Japan

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Allied Powers

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G.B., France, U.S.

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Nazi-Soviet Pact

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1. Russia and Germany agree not to attack each other

2. Russia and Germany agree to divide up additional European Nations

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Date of the start of WWI

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September 1, 1939

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Date of the start of Pear Harbor

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December 7,1941

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Battle of Dunkirk

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1. May 26 - June 4, 1940

2. 338,000 soldiers rescued

3. Established the "Dunkirk Spirit" in Britain

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Battle of Britain

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1. July 9 - October 31, 1940

2. Germany Luftwaffe vs. British Royal Air Force

3. First significant mistake for butler was not to defeat Britain

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Luftwafe

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An Air Force

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Royal Air Force

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Warfare force

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Pearl Harbor

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1. Japanese attack on Hawaii (Oahu)

2. 2,403 dead, 1,178 wounded

3. Destroyed: 5 battleships, 3 destroyers, 3 cruisers, 188 planes

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Big three

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Winston Churchill

FDR

Joseph Stalin

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Franklin Roosevelt

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American President during WWII

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Winston Churchill

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Prime minister of Britain during WWII

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Joseph Stalin

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Leader of the Soviet Union

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Total War

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Mobilizing all resources of a nation to defeat the enemy

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Rose Riveter

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Represents the American Woman who worked in factories and shipyards during WWII

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Victory Gardens

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Home gardens planted to increase food production during war

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Nisei

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Language used to specify the children born in the new country to Japanese-born immigrants

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Internment camps

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Detention centers for civilians considered enemies of the state

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Eisenhower

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Commander of the Allied forces in Europe

Nickname: "Ike"

Placed in charge of Normandy (D-day) Invasion

President of U.S.

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Rommel

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German commander in North Africa and Normandy

Nickname: "desert fox"

Suspected in a plot to kill hiter in 1944

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Bernard Montgomery

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British army officer in charge of ground forces in El Alamein and Normandy

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General Douglas MacArthur

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Played a role in the pacific theatre during WWII

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Harry Truman

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President 1944-1953

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Authorized the use of nuclear bombs

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Robert Oppenheimer

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Professor of physics at the University of California

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Rainbow plan

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Allies focus on Germany first and Japan second

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Cross-channel invasion

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Roosevelt

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Soft Underbelly

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Churchill

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Battle of the Bulge

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The last major offensive by German forces

Bloodiest of battles for American forces

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Battle of Normandy (D-Day)

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June 6,1944

Operation Overlord

Largest sea borne invasion in history

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Operation overload

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Code name for the battle of Normandy

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Nuremberg Trials

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The defendants, were indicated on such charges on crimes against peace and crimes against humanity

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War in the pacific: island hopping

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MacArthur

Island hopping was the strategy

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Kamikaze

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Suicide attacks

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Battle of Iwo jima

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Feb-March 1945

Wanted for airfields

First U.S. Attacks on Japanese home islands

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Battle of oninawa

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Largest amphibious assault in the pacific

Last major battle of the war

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The Manhattan Project

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The project to develop the first atomic bomb

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Enola Gay

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First plane to drop atomic bomb

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Paul Tibbets

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Pilot of Enola Gay

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Fat man

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Nagasaki

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Little hoy

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Hiroshima

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V-E Day

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Victory in Europe

May 8, 1945

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V-J Day

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August 14-15, 1945

Gen MacArthur signs as the supreme allied commander of the pacific theater during formal surrender ceremonies in Tokyo Bay