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The Coming of War
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11th Grade
06/13/2013

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Fascism
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Philosophy emphasizes the importance of the nation or an ethnic group and the supreme authority of the leader
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Totalitarian
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Government that exters total control over a nation
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Appeasement
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Keeping the peae by giving into an aggressor's demands
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Axis Powers
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Germany and Italy, later joined by Japan
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Blitzkrieg
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Lightning War
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Collaboration
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Close cooperation
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Allies
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The group who opposed the Axis Powers
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Resistance
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French underground movement to oppose the Germans
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Lend-Lease Act
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Act authorizing the president to aid any nations whose defense he felt was vital to American security
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Neutrality Acts
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US Laws designed to keep the nation out of future wars
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American First Committee
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Group of American isolationists
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Cash and Carry
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Policy that required countries at war to pau cash for all nonmilitary goods and provide transport
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What did Italy, Germany, and Japan have in common in the 1930s?
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They sought to solve their nations' problems through conquest
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Which was part of American policy during the early years of WWII?
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Remanining neutral while making war supplies available to Britain
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Joseph Stalin dominated to the Soviet Union using the tactics of
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Terror and Purges
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Both Mussolini and Hitler saw expansion of their territory as a way to increase
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National pride
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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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Although Communists and Fascists have traditionally been enemies, in 1939 which Fascist make a pact which which Communist?
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Hitler and Stalin
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In 1932, Manchuria was taken over by
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The Japanese military
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The Japanese leaders believed they could cripple the American naval fleet
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At Pearl Harbor
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During the 1930s, Hitler Mussolini, and the military leaders of Japan
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Began invading neighboring lands
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During the eraly years of WWII, the US
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Tried to remain neutral while supplying weapons to Britain and France
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Lebensraum was the term Hitler used that meant
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More living space for Germans
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After Hitler had invade Czech and made a pact with Stalin, he invaded
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Poland
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In 1940, one of the greatest rescues in the history of warfare occured at
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Dunkirk
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Great Britain held out against the German attack at the Battle of
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Britain
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The American First Committee wanted to
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Block and further aid to Britain
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In order to modernize agriculture in the Soviet Union, Stalin
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Combined small family farms into collective farms run by the state
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Nazism was an extreme form of
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Fascism
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What historical event contributed to the rise of fascism in both Italy and Germany, and the rise of totalitarianism in Soviet Union
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World War I
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What historical event contributed to the rise of fascism in both Italy and Germany, and the rise of totalitarianism in Soviet Union
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World War I
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Hitler signed a Nonagression Pact with
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The Soviet Union
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The Vichy government of France adopted which of the following policies after Germany conquered France?
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Collaboration
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In what battle did Hitler launch the greatest air assault the world had seen yet?
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The Battle of Britain
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Who inspired the Brititish people to resist the German invasion?
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Winston Churchill
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By the beggining of WWI, Japan had
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Become the strongest East Asian nation
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During the 1930s, the US focused largley on
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Domestic Affairs
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Congress passed Neutrality Acts that were designed to
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Limit international involvement
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A group of isolationists that included aviator Charles Lindbergh formed the
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America First Committee
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Which Militant Japanese general became prime minister in October of 1941?
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Tojo Hideki
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Shortly after Congress passed a war declaration on Japan, which other 2 countries declared war on the US?
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Italy and Germany
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Which two countries nearest to Germany did Hitler invade first?
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Poland and Czech
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What status did Spain, Ireland, Sweden, and Turkey have in common during WWII?
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They remained neutral
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