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68 Cards in this Set
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Maginot Line
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Fortification built by France along it's border with Germany
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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Echoed the hopeful "spirit of Localno" - sponsored by US in 1928
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Benito Mussolini
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Socialist
Intense nationalism Fascist Party Pact of Steel Assassinated and hung upside down |
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Black Shirts
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Mussolini's combat squad
Rejected democracy for violence Fascist gang |
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Totalitarian State
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One-party dictatorship attempts to control every aspect of citizen lives
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Fascism
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A centralized, authoritarian government
In 1920-30's - extreme nationalism Glorified action, violence, discipline, and blind loyalty to state |
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Command Economy
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Government officials made basic economic decisions
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Kulaks
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Wealthy farmers
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Gulag
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System of brutal labor camps
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Socialist Realism
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Soviet life portrayed in a positive light
Promoted Hope |
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Russification
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Making a nationality's culture more Russian
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Antheism
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Belief of no god
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Comintern
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Communist international - formed by Lenin in 1919
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Gestapo
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Secret police
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Nuremberg Law
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Deprived Jews of German citizenship
Placed severe restriction on them |
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Weimar Republic began after _______?
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The fall of Keiser Willhelm II
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Adolf Hitler
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Wanted to be architect/artist
Went to WWI Became gang member - joined Nazis 1923 - leader of the Nazi Party |
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The Beer Hall Putsch
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Hitler overthrew the government
-Arrested and sent to 5 years of jail -wrote Meinkampf - got out at 9 months Got majority for Nazis in Germany |
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Nazi
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National socialist German workers party
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Hitler is appointed ______________ by ____________ ?
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Chancellor of Germany
Paul Hindenburg |
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Dachau
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First concentration camp
-for political troublers |
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Germany invades Rhineland on what day?
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March 7, 1936
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Dictator of Spain
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Francisco Franco
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Japan invades China in what year?
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1937
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Julius Streicher
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Read of propaganda
Founder and publisher of Der Sturmer - Newspaper for Nazi propaganda |
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Dictator of China
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Chang Kai-Shek
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Dictator of US
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FDR
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Dictator of Britain
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Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill
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Dictator of France
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Charles DeGauelle Vichy
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Dictator of Italy
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Mussolini
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Dictator of Russia
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Stalin
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Dictator of Japan
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Hiro Hito
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Jesse Owens
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Embarrassed Hitler in Olympics - 1936
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1938 Austrian Anschluss
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Hitler takes over Austria
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Munich Agreement
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1938
Hitler said he would stop taking over countries |
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Nazi - Soviet non-aggresion pact was in what year?
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1939
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September 1, 1939
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WWII started in Poland
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The Tripartite Pact
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Rome - Berlin - Tokyo
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De Gaulle
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French resistance leader
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Franch surrenders to Germany in __ days
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13
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Vichy Fiance
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Played along with the Nazis
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US Land - Lease Act
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Lent supplies to countries $48 billion in profit
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Operation Barbarossa
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Hitler invades Russia during Winter
Hitler partly wins the battle |
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The Big Three
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Churchill - FDR - Stalin
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George S. Patton
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Lead American Troops
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General Eisenhower
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Organized D-Day
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Major Claus von Strausenburg
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Failed assassination
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Auschwitz-Birkenau
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Labor and death camp - largest
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Ghettos
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Segregated communities
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Aryan Predominance
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Germans are above everyone else
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Mischlienge
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1/2 Jew, 1/2 Aryan
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November 9
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Kristallnacht wrecked Jewish homes, synagogues, shops
Forced Jews to take refuge in other countries |
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Einsatzgruppen
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Action squad used to kill Jews
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Schutzstaffel
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SS
"protective" units for Hitler |
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April 30
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Hitler commits suicide
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Eva Braun
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Hitler's cousin/wife/secretary
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V-E Day
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May 8, 19945
German surrenders and Europe wins |
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Pearl Harbor
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December 7, 1941
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Admr. Nimitz
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Head of US Navy Pacific
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Gen. McArthur
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Head of weaponry in Pacific
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Potsdam Conference
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1945
Stalin only original in "Big Three" US has A-Bomb Germany divides |
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Dr. Robert Oppenheimer
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Creates atomic bomb
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August 6, 1945
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Ehola Gay drops Little Boy in Hiroshima
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August 9, 1945
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Fat Man is dropped on Nagasaki
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V-J Day
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September 2, 1945
Agreement signed on USS Missouri |
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Iron Curtain
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Separates communists countries from free countries through Germany
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Nuremberg War Trials
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SS soldiers charged for war crimes
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Who created Israel?
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JFK - Mixon - George W Bush
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