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28 Cards in this Set
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Burning of the Reichstag
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Hitler planned it, so people would think Germany was worse than it was, and elect Hitler as the dictator
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Nazi Regime
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The third Reich
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Totalitarian State
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a country where a single party controls the government and every aspect of people's lives
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Fascism
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a political system that is rooted in militarism, extreme nationalism, and blind loyalty to the state
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Aggression
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a warlike act by one country without just cause
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Nazi
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a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party
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Nazi Rise to Power
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Nazi’s used propaganda and promised to restore Germany. They were going to fix the problems from the Treaty of Versailles
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Scapegoat
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a person or group who is made to bear the blame for others
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Concentration Camp
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a prison camp for civilians who are considered enemies of the state
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Neutrality Acts
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a series of laws passed by Congress in 1935 that banned arms sales or loans to countries at war
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Propaganda
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information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. (Nazi’s used it)
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Appeasement
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the practice of giving in to aggression in order to avoid war
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Blitzkrieg
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the swift and powerful German military attacks in World War II; "lightning war"
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Axis Powers
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the World War II military alliance of Germany, Italy, Japan, and six other nations
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Allied Powers
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the World War II military alliance of Britain, France, the Soviet Union, the United States, China, and 45 other countries
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Pearl Harbor
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A major United States naval base in Hawaii that was attacked without warning by the Japanese air force on December 7, 1941, with great loss of American lives and ships.
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Rationing
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limiting the amount of certain goods that people can buy
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Rosie the Riveter
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a fictional factory worker who became a symbol of American women's contribution to the war effort during World War II
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“Double V” Campaign
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an African American civil rights campaign during World War II
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Internment
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the temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group
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Kristallnacht
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On November 9 to November 10, 1938, in an incident known as “Kristallnacht”, Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews.
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Wannsee Conference
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The conference between Nazi officials to find the final solution, which was an effective way to kill the Jews quickly. Hitler wasn’t there
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Nuremberg Trials
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the Nazi war crimes trials held in 1945 and 1946
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Bataan Death March
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the long trek across the Philippines that American and Filipino prisoners of war were forced to make by the Japanese in 1942
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Kamikaze
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(in World War II) a Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target.
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Holocaust
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the slaughter of Europe's Jews by the Nazis before and during World War II
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Death camps
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the camps where people were systematically murdered
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D-Day
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(June 6, 1944) the day of the invasion of Western Europe by Allied forces
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