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HI 102 Test 4
pages 372-378
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11/08/2011

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Benito Mussolini
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The resentment coupled with spiritual emphasis, inflation, labor strikes, and unemployment, made many people receptive to the promises of this socialist
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Fascist party
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organized by Mussolini
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Blackshirts
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another name for the Fascist party
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Fascism
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is a form of socialism that is similar to Communism; it excercises totalitarian control of politcal, economic, cultural, religious, and social activities, and it follows Darwinism ideas in its attempts to change society and bring in a new social order
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Adolf Hitler
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mant Germans believed the promises of prosperity coming from this socialist
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National Socialist German Workers' Party or"Nazis"
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Hitler was the leader of this
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Nazism
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a form of socialism, but it relies heavily on terroritst aggression, fanatical racism, and antidemocratic nationalism
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Mein Kampf
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means "my struggle," an autobiography and exposition of Nazi idealogy
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Reichstag
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German's chief legislative body
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"Der Fuhrer"
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means the leader, Hitler called himself this
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Third Reich
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Hitler's new government
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General Hideki Tojo
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Japan was led by him in the 1930s
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Emperor Hirohito
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the official head of the Japanese government, with no real authority
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Manchuria
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Japan began the wave of aggression which plunged the world into a second world war by invading ________, and seizing it from China
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Nationalist
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Chinese government
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Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek
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leader of the Chinese government
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Chinese Communists
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an exhausting civil war againest the ________ under Mao Tse-tung
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The Flying Tigers
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Claire Chennault and a group of three volunteers of American airmen flew missions against the Japanese and fought them successfully in the air against incredible odds to help China
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General Francisco Franco
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one of the leaders for Spain's civil war, he fought to keep Spain from fallling into the hands of Communist forces who fought on the other side
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Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
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later became known as the Axis powers
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Anscholuss
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the forced union of Germany with Austria under Hitler
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Sudentenland
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a mountainous region along the Czech-German border
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Neville Chamberlain
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British Prime minister who had a leading voice in Europe for peace and concilation
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Edouard Daladier
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French Premier who flew to Munich, Germany in the fall of 1938 to confer with Hitler and Mussolini
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Munich Pact
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Hitler signed this which dismembered Czechoslovakia by giving the rich Sudetenland to Germany
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appeasement
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either giving in to the demands of aggressor nations or taking no action when the aggressors attacked weaker countries
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Albania
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Mussolini seized this tiny place in the Balkans
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Nazi-Soviet Pact
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Hitler signed this nonaggression pact with Joseph Stalin
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