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7th Grade
05/21/2007

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genocide
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The systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group.

ex. Hitler wanted to use genocide to kill all jews and people thay were not part of the "Master Race"
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appeasment
Definition
a neggortiation to prevent war

ex. The facsist leader Hitler took over a small prtion of Czechoslovakia and said that he would not take over any other country and Chamberlin said that it was ok because he did not want to get invloved in the war.
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summit Meeting
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Direct personal negotiations between heads of governments, especially meetings that took place between the leaders of the United States and the former Soviet Union.
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anti-semitism
Definition
Hostility toward or prejudice against Jews or Judaism.

ex.Hitler was very anti-simetic because he hated jews because he thught that they were the cause of all germans problems.
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rationing
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Method for limiting the purchase or usage of an item when the quantity demanded of the item exceeds the quantity available at a specific price.

ex.during World War II many domestic items in the United States, including gasoline and other commodities, were rationed.
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ghetto
Definition
During World War II, ghettos were established by the Nazis to confine Jews into tightly packed areas of the cities of Eastern Europe.
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Dictator
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An absolute ruler.

ex.adolf hitler, benito mussolini ect. took over there countrys and were facsits.
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Tariff
Definition
a tax on foreign goods
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Benito Mussonlini
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the Fascist dictator of Italy during World War II
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Adolf Hitler
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A fascist dictator of Germany
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Joseph Stalin
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Leader of the U.S.S.R.
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Neville Chamberlin
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The English statesman Arthur Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940) was prime minister of Great Britain
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winston Churchill
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prime minister of Britain during World War II
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Hideki Tojo
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Japanese Prime Minister during World War II
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Bataan Death March
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The Bataan Death March was a war crime involving the prisoners were forced to march ,with lots of physical avuse and high fatalities, by Japanese forces in the Philippines, in 1942, during World War II.
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Emperor Hirohito
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Hirohito was the Emperor of Japan During the WWII
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Nisei
Definition
A japanes born in america and then later on sent into internment camps because of the attack on Pearl Harber even though the Citizens had nothing to do w/ it.
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Third Reich
Definition
the Nazi dictatorship under Hitler (1933-1945)
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four freedoms
Definition
Essential social and political objectives described by Pres. Franklin Roosevelt in his State of the Union message in January 1941: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear of physical aggression.
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internment camps
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an under guarded place where the japanese were sent during wwII
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Nazi
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A member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, founded in Germany in 1919 and brought to power in 1933 under Adolf Hitler.
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Holocaust
Definition
Holocaust The genocide of European Jews and others by the Nazis during World War II
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"Master Race"
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