U.s. History 2 Chapter 24

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Joseph Stalin

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Leader of the Soviet Union after Lenin died.

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Totalitarian

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one that maintains complete control over it's citizens

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Benito Mussolini

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leader of a totalitarian regime in Italy in 1919.

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Fascism

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a new political movement that consisted of a strong, centralized government headed by a powerful dictator.

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Adolf Hitler

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Wrote Mein Kampf, leader of Nazi Germany. You already know.

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Nazism

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Like fascism except based on extreme nationalism.

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Neutrality Acts

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Acts passed by congress in 1935 and so on to keep the U.S. out of future wars.

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Neville Chamberlain

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British Prime Minister before Churchill.

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Winston Churchill

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Leader of GoB, was the political rival of Chamberlain.

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Appeasement

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giving up principles to pacify an aggressor.

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Non agression pact

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Pact signed by the Soviet Union and Germany on August 23, 1939 which said that they wouldn't go to war.

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Blitzkreig

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German military strategy, "lightning war", uses tanks, aircraft, etc.

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Charles de Gaulle

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French general who fled to England after France's fall 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, half of them were jews.

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Kristallnacht

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November 9, 1938 "Crystal Night", gangs of Nazi storm trooper attacked jewish homes, business, etc.

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Genocide

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deliberate killing of an entire people.

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Concentration Camp

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camps of forced labor that Nazi victims were forced to attend.

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Axis Powers

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Japan, Germany, and Italy

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Lend-Lease Act

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Allowed the U.S. to aid nations via supplies "whose defense was vital to the U.S."

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Atlantic Charter

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Declaration of principles, spelled out the causes for which the war was fought.

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Allies

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Nations who joined together to fight the Axis Powers.

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Hideki Tojo

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The new prime minister of Japan at the time, led military.

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Black Shirts

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Discontended ex-soilders, poses as champions of law and attacked communists, socialists, and radical/progressive groups.

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Brown shirts

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Members of an early Nazi militia founded by Hitler in Munich in 1921, resembling Mussolini's black shirts. Aided Hitler's rise to power.

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Paul Von Hindenburg

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German national hero during WW1, was a field marshal and statesman, also was president of the Weimar Republic.

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Beer Hall Putsch

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the foiled coup attempt on November 8, 1923 by hitler with SA troops in Bavaria at a meeting of Bavarian officials.

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Mein Kampf

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was the ideological base for the Nazi's racist beliefs, written by Hitler.

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Bolsheviks

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Members of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, renamed the communist party after their rise to power.

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NSDAP

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Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers Party)

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Reichstag

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The estates or meeting of the estates. (congress)

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Weimar Republic

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The german republic that existed from 1919 to Hitler's ascension to power in 1933.

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Anschluss

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The annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in March 1938.

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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.

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SS

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an elite corps of combat troops formed originally within the Nazi Party as a bodyguard for Hitler and other leaders.

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Sudetenland

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German name to refer to the northern, southwest, and western areas of Czechoslovakia which was inhabited primarily by German speakers.

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Hitler Youth

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a nazi youth auxilry group established in 1926. It was an extension of Hitler's belief that the future of Nazi germany was to it's children.

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Aryan Race

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the race of people who were descendants of the prehistoric people who spoke indo-european.

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Joseph Goebblels

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german propaganda minister in Nazi germany who persecuted the Jews.

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Herman Goring (Umlaut over O)

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German politician in Nazi germany who founded the Gestapo and mobilized germany for war

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Lebensraum

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the territory that a state/nation believes is needed for its natural development.

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Anti-semitism

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hostility to or prejudice against Jews

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Horst Wessel Lied

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The anthem of the Nazi party