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17 Cards in this Set
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Joseph Stalin
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last name means “man of steel,” took control of the country.
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Totalitarian
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tried to exert complete control over its citizens.
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Benito Mussolini
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established a totalitarian regime in Italy, where unemployment and inflation produced bitter strikes, some communist-led.
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Facism
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stressed nationalism and placed the interests of the state above those of individuals.
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Adolf Hitler
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had followed a path to power similar to Mussolini’s.
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Nazism
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the German brand of fascism, was based on extreme nationalism.
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Francisco Franco
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a general who rebelled against the Spanish republic.
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Neutrality Acts
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acts to keep the United States out of future wars. The first two acts outlawed arms sales or loans to nations at war. The third act was passed to extend the ban on arms sales and loans to nations engaged in civil wars.
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Neville Chamberlain
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British prime minister who Hitler invited to meet with him in Munich.
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Nonaggression Pact
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an agreement in which two nations promise not to go to war with each other.
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Blitzkrieg
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lightening war
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Charles de Gaulle
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a French general who fled to England to set up a government in exile.
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Holocaust
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the systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe, more than half of whom were Jews.
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Kristallnacht
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or “Night of Broken Glass.” Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany.
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genocide
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the deliberate and systematic killing of an entire population.
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ghettos
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segregated Jewish areas in certain Polish cities.
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concentration camps
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labor camps. Families were often separated, sometimes forever.
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