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The Rise of Dictators 1
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01/05/2011

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Benito Mussolini
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Italian Fascist leader
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Fascist Party
Definition
totalitarian with emphasis on nationalism and the supreme leader
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Il Duce
Definition
Italian for "The Leader"
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Blackshirts
Definition
Italian Fascist thugs who assisted Mussolini by terrorizing and controlling those who opposed him
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Ethiopia
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the independent African community that Mussolini first invaded
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Nazi Party
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a from of Facism shaped by Hitler's fanatical ideas about German Nationalism and racial superiority, National Socialist German Worker's Party
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Mein Kampf
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Hitler's autobiography, "My Struggle"
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Aryans
Definition
blond,blue-eyed Germans, the perfect race according to Hitler
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Reichstag
Definition
the lower house of the German parliament
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Brownshirts
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storm troopers, Nazi Thugs who waged a violent campaign to silence opposition to Hitler
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Der Fuhrer
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Hitler, German for "The Leader"
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Lebensraum
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"living space" Hitler's way of describing that Germany needed more room, therefore it should expand
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Rhineland
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a region in western Germany where the Versailles Treaty had banned German military forces of course German troops entered anyways)
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Axis Powers
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agreement between Mussolini and Hitler, later joined by Japan
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Anschluss
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what Hitler was pushing Austria for, a political union
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Sudetenland
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an industrial region of Czechoslovakia with a heavily German population and many fortifications crucial to Czechoslovakia's defense
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Neville Chamberlain
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British prime minister who went to Hitler to try and resolve the issue of Sudetenland, who ended up pursuing a policy of appeasement
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Spanish Civil war
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fierce civil war between Nationalists and Republicans
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Francisco Franco
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general who lead the Nationalist Rebels during the civil war
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Guernica
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Spanish town bombed to ruins by Germany, Pablo Picasso painted a painting of the same name to convey the horrors of the Spanish civil war
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