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