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Rise of Dictators and World War II
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History
9th Grade
01/10/2007

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Jews
Definition
Group on whom Hitler blamed Germany's problems and targeted with the Holocaust
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Resistance
Definition
Underground movement which sabotaged the Nazis and passed information to the Allies
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Dunkirk
Definition
Belgian seaport where the British sent every seaworthy vessel they had to rescue trapped French and British soldiers
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Radar
Definition
invention that helped the British shoot down German bombers
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pacifism
Definition
refusal to fight
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Blitzkrieg
Definition
"lightening war"; a combined assault of planes, tanks, and mechanized infantry to assure a quick victory
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Allies
Definition
Won World War II
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ghetto
Definition
A restricted area of a city set aside for Jews
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Hiroshima
Definition
Suffered an atom bomb attack on August 6, 1945
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subway (underground) station
Definition
Where Londoners hid to protect themselves during the Battle of Britain.
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Russian winter
Definition
Stopped the Germans in the Soviet Union
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Axis Powers
Definition
Germany, Italy, and Japan
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kamikaze
Definition
"divine wind"; Japanese suicide bombers
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appeasement
Definition
Making concessions to an aggressor to keep the peace
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D-Day
Definition
June 6, 1944--The Allied invasion of Normandy
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Final Solution
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The Nazi plan to exterminate all Jews
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Blitzkrieg on Poland
Definition
Event which began World War II
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Nazi death camps
Definition
Auschwitz, Treblinka, Dachau, and Bergen-Belsen
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Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Definition
attacked by Japan on December 7, 1941
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Pacific fleet
Definition
Seriously damaged during the attack on Pearl Harbor
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The US entered the war
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Major result of the attack on Pearl Harbor
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Britain and the Soviet Union
Definition
countries Hitler was unable to conquer
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atomic bomb
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dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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allies
Definition
won World War II
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airlifting supplies
Definition
how the US and other Allies saved Berlin
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Adolph Hitler
Definition
Nazi dictator of Germany
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Definition
President of the United States during World War II
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Hideiki Tojo
Definition
Fascist Prime Minister of Japan
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Benito Mussolini
Definition
Fascist leader of Italy
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Neville Chamberlain
Definition
Appeasing Prime Minister of Great Britain
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Winston Churchill
Definition
Prime Minister of Britain during most of World War II
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Harry S. Truman
Definition
Succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt as President of the United States
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V-E Day
Definition
End of the war in Europe
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V-J Day
Definition
End of the war in the Pacific
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Pacifism
Definition
Refusal to fight
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Alexandra of Hesse
Definition
Czarina of Russia, wife of Nicholas II
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Francisco Franco
Definition
Fascist leader of Spain from 1936-1975
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Benito Mussolini
Definition
Fascist leader of Italy during the 1930s and 1940s
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Gregor Rasputin
Definition
Corrupt Russian monk who controlled the Czarina Alexandra
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The Communist Party
Definition
Political party established by Russia's Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution
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The Great Purge
Definition
The arrest, trial, and executin of Stalin's enemies during the 1930s
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Nicholas II
Definition
Czar of Russia who was deposed during the Russian Revolution and executed with his family in 1918
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Hemophilia
Definition
Czarovich Alexis' disease
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D-Day
Definition
Common name for the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944
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Leon Trotsky
Definition
Advisor of Lenin who was pushed out of the Soviet government by Stalin and assassinated in Mexico in 1940
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Aryan
Definition
Name Hitler gave his so-called "Master Race"
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appeasement
Definition
Making concessions to an aggressor to keep the peace
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Adolph Hitler
Definition
Nazi leader who headed Germany during the 1930s and 1940s
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