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12 Cards in this Set
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The Treaty of Versailles forced Germany to demilitarize an area near the border of France known as the _________.
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Rhineland
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In the Soviet Union, __________ brutally transformed Soviet agriculture through collectivization.
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Josef Stalin
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Benito Mussolini, also called________, promised the Italians that he would create a new ___________. To distract the people from their problems at home, he created war abroad with a military invasion of _______.
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Il Duce, Roman Empire, Ethiopia
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At the end of WWI, ________ was just another jobless soldier wandering around Germany.
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Adolf Hitler
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In 1931, extreme nationalism and desire for land led Japan to invade the Chinese province of ___________.
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Manchuria
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Hitler capitalized on hate and racism, making the _________ the scapegoat for Germany's economic and social problems
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Jews
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Hitler's first unchallenged full-scale invasion of another country resulted in the annexation of __________. He next demanded that Czechoslovakia surrender control of the ___________.
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Austria, Sudetenland
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With the signing of the Munich Agreement by France, Britain, and Germany, Prime Minister _____________ believed victory and peace had been attained through appeasement. His political rival, ________________ believed otherwise, and was proven correct.
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Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, both from Britain
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In 1939, Hitler used the full force of the German military strategy known as "Blitzkrieg" to invade ______. Following the invasion of Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg, Hitler set his sights on _________.
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Poland, France
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Between June and Sep. of 1940, the German Luftwaffe concentrated their bombing efforts on _____. __________ vowed to help this country in its life-or-death struggle against Hitler's regime with arms and other necessary supplies.
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Britain, FDR
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In July 1941, Roosevelt and Churchill met in ____________ to agree upon and sign the Atlantic Charter, a joint declaration on the goals of war.
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Argentia Bay
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Also in July 1941, _____ seized __________, causing President Roosevelt to declare an embargo on goods being sent to _________. On December 7th, _______ was bombed, putting US fully into the war.
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Japan, French Indochina, Japan, Pearl Harbor
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