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24 Cards in this Set
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Joseph Stalin
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-Totalitarian leader of the soviet union during ww2
-He was ruthless and because of this many Russians died while he was in power |
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Benito Mussolini
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-Facist leader of Italy during WW2
- He was very militaristic and anti-communist |
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Adolf Hitler
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-Facist leader of Germany
-A brilliant manager and tactican, But also a deranged psycopath |
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Francisco Franco
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-Fascist leader of spain during WW2
-Keep spain out of WW2 |
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Neutrality Act
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- A senes of acts passed by congress in the 1930's
- These were ment to keep the U.S from supporting either side of ww2. |
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Blitzkereig
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-German tatici of the "Lighting War"
-It used fast- moving air planes and tanks, followed by massive infantry. |
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Nonagression Pact
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-The pact signed between Stalin and hitler
- the agreed not to attack eacher other and,also, to dived up eastern europe. |
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Charles de Gaulle
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The leader of the french gov. in exile based in London
-He effectively led the French resistnace until germany had been forced to leave paris |
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Winston churchill
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-Britsh prime minister during ww2
-He provied britan w/ great leadership during ww2 |
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Neville Chamberlain
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-British minister leading up the ww2
-His policy of appeasment toward hitler was a terrible failure |
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The Holocaust
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The murder of over 11 million people across europe in hitler attempt to create racial purity
-OVER 6 million of those killed were jews |
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Kristallnacht
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-means"Night of broken Glass"
-The night when Nazis attacked jews homes, bussinesses, and synagoyues across germany. |
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Ghettos
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-Parts of town where jews were forced to live
- They were overcrowded and usually lacked adequate supplies of food, water and sanitation |
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Concentration camps
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-Camps where underserbles, such as jews, were sent and forced to work
- Conditions were awful and people died form overwork and starvation |
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The Final Solution
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-The deliberal killing of the jews by hitler
-hitler used this in an attemp to rid europ of jews |
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Lend- Lease Act
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-The us plicy of lending military supplises and equipment to any country vital to the us
-To the germans this was almost the same as decleration of war |
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Atlantic charter
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-An agreement between Roosevelt and churchill
-they pledged to protect freedom of the seas and the right of the people to chose their own gov. |
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allies
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The military alliance made up of the majority of countries in the world
-the strongest of these was the U.S, england and the Soviet union and France |
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Hidelki Tojo
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- The prime minister of japan who led the them into war
-After the war her was found gility of war crimes and hunged |
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Women's auxiliary army corps
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-put women to wok in the ary due to labor shortage created by ww2
-Gave woment the pay and status of all soildersm but few benefits granted male soilders |
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A. Phillip Randolph
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African American labor leader
-led protest discrmination |
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Office of Price adminstar
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-Created due to the declining production of consumer goods during war
-It was succesful in controling wartime inflation |
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War Prodtucion Board
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-Created to ensure the military reduced the resources that were need to fight war- It decided which comanies wouldnt convert their producions to war materials
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Manhattan Project
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-The project created by roosevelt to build the first atommic bomb
-German refugee albert Einstin had warned Roosevelt that the germans had succesfully split up the atom |
