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Germany's leader during world war 2
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Hitler
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Italy's leader during ww2
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Mussolini
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The soviet union's leader during world war 2
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Stalin
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us leader during ww2
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FDR
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uk prime minister before ww 2 outbreak.. gave czech to germany
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Nevile Chamberlain
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leader of Free France
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Charles De gaulle
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uk prime minister during world war 2
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Winston churchill
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opens trade between us and japan
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matthew perry
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Puppet leader of Manchuria
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P' u-l
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chinese military and political leader
jiang's rival |
mao zedong
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led invasion of china
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Jiang Jeshi
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first af.american to be given a navy medal
hero during the attack of pearl harbor |
Doris Miller
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Prime Minister of Japan
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Hideki Tojo
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comander in chief of the combined fleet
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Yamamoto
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-America First
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Charles LIndbergh
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led invasion of china
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Jiang Jeshi
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first af.american to be given a navy medal
hero during the attack of pearl harbor |
Doris Miller
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Prime Minister of Japan
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Hideki Tojo
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comander in chief of the combined fleet
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Yamamoto
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-America First
-american pilot |
Charles LIndbergh
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-nationalist
-head of state of spain -against the spanish gov't |
Fransico Franco
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communist politician
created communism |
Lenin
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an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization
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Fascism
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pacify
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appeasement
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of or relating to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state
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totalitarian
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a country governed by a dictator
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dictatorship
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a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
• a member of an organization with similar ideology. • derogatory a person who holds and acts brutally in accordance with extreme racist or authoritarian views. |
nazism
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us,france,uk, soviet union
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allies
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germany italy japan
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axis
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groups included small groups of armed men and women
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resistance
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he action of working with someone to produce or create something
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collaboration
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lightning war
-an intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory |
Blitzkrieg
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germany will get western poland
russia will get eastern poland,finland,estonia,latvia,lithuania |
Non-aggression pact
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-Germany :protection from a 2 front war
-Russia-insurance against german attack |
Non-aggression pact
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Britain and french give into hitler's demands
-give sudetenland |
Munich pact
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living space
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Lebensraum
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process of removing enemies and undesirable individuals from power
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purge
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country that is nominally independent, but in reality, under the control of another power
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puppet state
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japan allies with germany and italy
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tripartie pact
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road linking burma with china
-british used road to transport war material |
Burma road
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represented the desire to create a self-sufficient "block of Asian nations led by the Japanese and free of Western powers
-extend from manchuria to indonesia -japan need natural resources to carry on the war |
Greater East Asia co-prosperity sphere
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Branch of the british armed forces
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royal airforce
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german air force
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Luftwaffe
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lower house of german parliament
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Reichstag
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book written by hitler describing his plans
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mein kampf
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annexation of austria by germany
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anschluss
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fascist paramilitary
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blackshirts
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to consolidate individual land and labor into collective farms
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collectivization of farms
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western czechsolovakia
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sudetenland
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prohibition of commerce and trade with a certain country
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embargo
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puppet gov't by the nazi
-capital of the french state adopted a policy of collaboration |
Vichy
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were French fighters in World War II, who decided to continue fighting against Axis forces after the surrender of France and subsequent German occupation.
backed the underground resistance |
free france
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were a series of laws passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II
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neutrality acts
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he name of the program under which the United States of America supplied Great Britain, the Soviet Union, China, France and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war material between 1941 and 1945 in return for in the case of Britain military bases in Newfoundland, Bermuda and the British West Indies.
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lend lease
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t between the United States and the United Kingdom, September 2, 1940, transferred fifty destroyers from the United States Navy in exchange for land rights on British possessions.
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Destroyers for bases
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allows for the sale of supplies to nations at war on a cash and carry basis
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cash and carry
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United States federal law which provided for self-government of the Philippines and for Filipino independence (from the United States) after a period of ten years.
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tydings-mcduffie act
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was a law passed by the Reichstag with a two-thirds majority, by which the government was authorized to legislate without the consent of the Reichstag
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Enabling act
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The aim of Japanese junior officers in Manchuria was to provide a pretext that would justify Japanese military invasion and replace the Chinese government in the region with either a Japanese or a puppet one
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Manchurian Incident
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a pre-emptive military strike on the United States Pacific Fleet base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by the Empire of Japan's Imperial Japanese Navy, on the morning of Sunday, 7 December 1941.
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Pearl Harbor attack
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great britain vs germany and italy
air war over britain 4 months of bombing radar saved teh british -during winston churchill |
battle over britain
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Those who were purged (among them artists, scientists, teachers, people in the military, but also many long-time communists who dared to disagree with the party leadership) were sent to labor camps or executed.
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purge
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It was the scene of the evacuation of 335,000 Allied troops in 1940 by warships, requisitioned civilian ships, and a host of small boats while under constant German attack from the air.
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Dunkirk
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treaty that ended ww1 but started ww2
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treaty of versailles
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directs us towards neutrality
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good neighbor policy
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the axis powers were named for the axis between which two european capitals
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berlin and rome
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which location did hitler not acquire in the years leading up to world war 2
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norway
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during sept. to april 1939 britain and france perpare to defend france.. what is this period called
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the phony war
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what was the blitzkrieg
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-depended on air power
-utilized planes,tanks,trucks |