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31 Cards in this Set
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Dictator |
a ruler with absolute authority |
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Fascism |
system of government in which total power is givin to a dictator and individual freedoms are denied and nationalism and racism often emphasized |
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totalitarian |
system which emphasizes total control over peoples lives |
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blackout |
required that all lights or house and neighborhoods along the shores be put out at specified times |
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appeasment |
giving in to preserve the peace |
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NAZI |
National Socialist German Workers Party |
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Allied Powers |
France, US, Great Britain |
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Axis Powers |
Japan, Italy, Germany |
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Blitzkrieg |
Germman work for lightening war (large air raids) |
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Lend-Lease |
law passed in 1941 allowing the US President to lend or sell war materials to any nation whose defense is vital to the US |
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Pearl Harbor |
site of Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941; leading the US into WW2 |
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Rationing |
limit to what you can buy ( sugar, gas, meat, tires) |
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Concentration camps |
prision camps for JEWS and other minoritys |
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Internment camps |
1942 Roosevelt order 110,000 Japanese americans living on the pacific coast from thier homes and sent them to camps in colorado, utah and arkansas |
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D-Day |
June 6, 1944; the day the allied forces land in normandy, France and free france from german rule |
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V-E day |
May 8, 1945; allied victory in Europe |
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V-J Day |
Augest 14, 1945; victory in japan/ends ww2 |
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island hopping |
a strategy used by the US where we captured a island and then moved on to the next island; working our way up to the mainland or japan |
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Holocaust |
massive killing of millions of people; including 6 millions jews by NAZI |
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Nuremburg trials |
court proceeding after WW2 in which allies tried NAZI leaders for war crimes |
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22nd amendment |
limits the US president to 2 terms in office |
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Iwo JIma |
stratigic island 750 miles from capital of japan; last island before invasion of japans homeland |
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Hiroshima/Nagasaki |
japanese cities where US drops atomic bombs; ends war |
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Mein Kampf |
NAZI handbook written by Hitler |
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Benito Mussolini |
Italian fascist leader |
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Adolph Hitler |
German dictator; believed in Aryan supremacy |
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Joseph Stalian |
dictator of the Soviet union |
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Winston Churchill |
british prime minister |
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Franklin Roosevelt |
32nd president; elected 4 times |
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Harry S Trueman |
33rd President; had to make decision to drop atomic bomb |
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Hideki Tojo |
military leader of japan |
