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Totalitarianism
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Type of government that controlled every aspect of life, using terror to suppress opposition.
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Fascism
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Political philosophy that places importance of nation above individual.
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Axis Powers
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Germany, Italy, and Japan
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Appeasement
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The policy of giving in to one's demands in order to keep peace.
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Blitzkrieg
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"lightning war" A new warfare tactic whiched mobilized forces in a quick manner.
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Allies
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Those fighting the Axis Powers, including Great Britain, USA, and the USSR.
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Lend-Lease Act
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1941 act which authorized U.S. president to aid any nation whose defense he felt was vital to American security.
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GIs
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American Soldiers
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Battle of Stalingrad
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Battle in which Germany lost upwards of 330,000 troops. It was the turning point of the war in Eastern Europe.
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Carpet Bombing
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Attacking strategy in which large numbers of bombs were scattered over a wide area.
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D-Day
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Codename for the Allied Invasion of France on June 6, 1944.
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Battle of the Bulge
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The final German counterattack in the west, in December 1944.
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Yalta Conference
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Meeting of Stalin. Churchill, and Roosevelt to plan for the post war world.
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Bataan Death March
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Brutal march of American and Filipino prisoners by Japanese soldiers in 1942.
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Battle of Guadalcanal
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Provided Marines with first taste of jungle warfare.
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Battle of the Midway
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Turning point in the war with japan, it was fought on June 4, 1942, and was fought entirely in the air.
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Battle of Iwo Jima
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One of the bloodiest battles in the war. Fought only 700 miles from Japan.
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Battle of Okinanawa
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Battle in which only 7,200 of the intial 100,000 Japanese defenders survived. 50,000 American casualties made it the costliest engagement of the pacific War.
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Manhattan Project
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Secret American program to develop the Atomic Bomb.
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Holocaust
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germany's systematic murder of European Jews.
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Anti-Semitism
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Hostility towards Jews
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Concentration Camps
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Places where prisoners of war, political prisoners, and "undesirables" were held in harsh conditions.
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Death camps
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Camps used exclusively for mass murder.
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Genocide
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Deliberate murder of an entire people.
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