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72 Cards in this Set
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WWI -war to ______________
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the war to end all wars
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Many Germans resented the ________
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resented the Allies treatment of their country & longed for revenge (Treaty of Versailles)
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also displeased with the results of WWI with Germany
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Italy & Japan
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organized the Fascist Party
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Benito Mussolini-Italian
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Fascists also called
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Blackshirts
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Fascism
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a form of socialism that is similar to communism-attempts to change society and bring in a new social order
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______ gained dictatorial powers over the government and ruthlessly crushed all opposition
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Mussolini
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Nazism in Germany
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Adolf Hitler
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Nazis
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National Socialist German Workers' Party
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Nazism - def
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a form of socialism, but relies more heavily on terrorist aggression, fanatical racism, and antidemocratic nationalism
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Hitler's autobiography
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Mein Kampf (My Struggle)
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Hitler claimed
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Germans were a master race, survival of the fittest, eliminated 'inferior' races (especially Jews)
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Germany's cheif legislative body
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Reichstag
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Third Reich- Hitler called himself
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Der Fuhrer (the leader)
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Hitler conducted
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conducted a bloody purge of his own Nazi party, killing any members suspected of being a threat to his power
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Hitler's motto
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Today, Germany; tomorrow the world.
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concentration camps
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Nazis worked the Jews to death or murdered them
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Hitler hated
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Jews & Christians
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euthanasia
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killing off the weak, the sick, the mentally retarded, and others with physical difficulties
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abortion
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killing unborn babies
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Militarism
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Japan
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led Militarists in Japan
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General Hideki Tojo
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official head of the Japanese gov, with no real authority
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Emperor Hirohito
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samurai
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warrior class
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Hakko Ichin
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Bringing the Eight Corners of the World under One Roof
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the US officially recognized _____________ in 1933
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US officially recognized the Communist gov in Russia
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Manchuria
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abundant natural resources & strategic location
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Nationalist Chinese leader
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Chiang kai-shek
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Communist Chinese leader
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Mao Tse-tung
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Flying Tigers
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American Gen Claire Chennault
-flew missions against the Japanese |
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Emperor of Ethopia
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Haile Selassie
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Ethopia appealed to the _______________
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appealed to the League of Nations for help from Italy
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Pulled out of the League of Nations
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Italy & Germany
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German troops went into the _________ the demilitarized zone of the ______________
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Rhineland, Rhine River
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General Francisco Franco
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fought to keep Spain from falling into the hands of the Communist forces
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the Spanish Civil War
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Franco defeated Communists
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Mussolini & Hitler joined forces
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Rome-Berlin Axis
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Japan, Germany, & Italy
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Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
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Axis Powers
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Japan, Germany, & Italy
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a forced union of Germany with Austria
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Anschluss
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a mountainous region along the Czech-German border
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Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia)
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British Prime Minister
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Neville Chamberlain
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French Premier
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Edouard Daladier
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Munich Pact
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Sudetenland was Hitlers last territorial claim
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appeasement
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giving in to the demands of aggressor nations or taking no action when the aggressor attacks weaker countries
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Mussolini seized ______ in the Balkans
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seized Albania
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Hitler made another claim after Czech
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Poland
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Nazi-Soviet Pact
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Hitler & Stalin signed this nonaggression pact which included a secret agreement between the Germans & the Soviets to invade Poland
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Nazis invaded Poland
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Sept 1, 1939
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WWII
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France & Britain declared war on Germany
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WWII began
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September 3, 1939
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Stuka
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German dive bombers
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Panzer
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German tank divisions overwhelmed Polish
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blitzkreig (russia)
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lightning war- a fast heavy assault by motorized forces & air power
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Soviet Union seized
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Latvia, Lithuania, & Estonia
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Winter War
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Soviets invaded Finland
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sitzkreig
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sitting down war
-no major battles in Western Europe |
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sitzkreig broken- date
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April 1940
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sitzkreig broken
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Germans launched a surprise invasions of Denmark & Norway
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May 10, 1940
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Hitler unleashed troops upon France, Luxembourg, Belgium, & the Netherlands
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Dunkirk
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British & French soldiers pushed back to this port in France by the Germans
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held off the Germans just long enough to send in more British troops
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Royal Air Force (RAF)
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France surrendered to the Germans
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June 22, 1940
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controlled the Vichy French gov
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Marshal Petain
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Free French gov
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Gen Charles de Gaulle
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Hitlers plans to invade Great Britain
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Operation Sea-Lion
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Luftwaffe
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Germany's mighty air force
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perhaps the 20th century's greatest statesman
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Winston Churchill
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Battle of Britain
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10,000 bombs on London alone
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the invention of _________ saved Britain from Germany
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radar
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'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
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quote by Churchill to heroic RAF pilots
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Iron curtain
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described the spread of communism into central & eastern Europe
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