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Mussolini
Il Duce- leader of Italian Fascists
Former socialist turned nationalist
Hitler
Fuhrer- Nazi Party dictator. Originally democratically elected chancellor.
In Mussolini's dictatorship, workers were not allowed to _________ and wages were __________.
Strike, lagged
Public Works
Germany- citizens were put to work building things for public use like buildings and highways etc
Black Shirts
Italian secret police
Brown Shirts, Gestapo, Storm Troopers/SS
German secret police
Mussolini's propaganda
Loudspeakers, posters
Hitler's propaganda
Schools indoctrinated youth, books were burned, Hitler made speeches all the time
Fascist Youth
Young Italians learned military skills and obedience to Mussolini. "Mussolini is always right"
Kristallnacht
Night of the Broken Glass- Nazi mobs attacked Jews
Fasces
Symbol (bundle of sticks) represents authority
El Alamein
A major turning for Allied forces, Montgomery stopped Rommel.
Sicily
British and Americans beat Italians
When did the Germans surrender?
May 7th
Bataan Death March
The Japanese had control of the Philippines and when the Americans came in, they marched them along with ~10,000 Filipino soldiers 68 miles and most of them died.
Midway was a _____ battle
Naval
Only Pacific battle with more American casualties than Japanese
Iwo Jima
Okinawa was the first major use of _________ pilots
Kamikaze
Number of people killed at Hiroshima from the bomb
70,000
When was the first atomic bomb dropped
August 6th 1945
When did the US enter the war?
After Pearl Harbor (1941)
1931: Manchuria is an area in ______ seized by the ______
China, Japanese
When was Pearl Harbor?
December 7th 1941
What African country did Italy seize when the League of Nations tried to impose sanctions?
Ethiopia
Germany and Italy test weapons and tactics through the _______ ___________ __________
Spanish Civil War
Anschluss
Union of Germany and Austria when Hitler takes over Austria
Sudentland
The part of Czechoslovakia that Hitler took first
Britan controls the ____
Sky
Neville Chamberlain
British Prime Minister who thought he avoided war
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Agreement that the Soviet Union and Germany won't fight each other, and they divide up Poland to avoid the two front war.
Operation Sea Lion
Hitler's planned invasion of Britan
Operation Barborossa
When Hitler invaded the Soviet Union
Blitzkrieg
Lightning War
Atlantic Charter
Called for defeat of Nazis
The UN security council's five permanent members
US, Soviet Union, Britain, France, China
Containment
Keep communism from spreading
Iron curtain
Churchill's description of Soviet control of Eastern Europe dividing the continent
President during the beginning of the cold war
Truman
Truman doctrine
Support free people who are resisting attempted subjugation
Marshall Plan
US brought food and supplies to Europe to help countries rebuild
Satellites
European states dependent on the US
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization made up of the USA, Canada, and 9 western European countries
Warsaw Pact
USSR and 7 satellites in Eastern Europe
How the long was the Cold War
40 years