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- Soviet Union established 1922
- Became leader of Soviet Union 1924
- Continued communisism with intense focus on agriculture and industrialism
- Abolished private ownership of farms
- created collectives
- Soviet Union became 2nd only to US in industrial power
- Killed 8-11 million to attain totalitarian control
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- Citizens have no rights
- Government supresses any and all opposition
- Government has complete control over its citizens
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- took control over Italy in 1922
- unemployment and inflation led to discontent
- Mussolini took advantage of the discontent and gave a strong leader with small group of party members to lead, as the solution
- Appointed by the king after the "black shirts" marched on Rome with support of the military, gov't officials, and the police
- Gradually gained totalitarian control over Italy
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- philosophy of government
- nationalistic, stron centralized gov't
- dictator
- NOT AN ECONOMIC SYSTEM
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- Joined the Nazi party in 1919 after WWI
- Rose to leadership quickly
- Wrote Mien Kampf "my struggle" laying out the Nazi objectives
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- Extreme nationalism, uniting all German-speaking people in a great German empire
- "Purification" of the race
- National expansionism - gaining land for the German empire
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- 1936 Spanish army officers backed his revolt against the Spanish republic
- He was supported by Hitler and Mussolini, who forged the Rome-Berlin axis alliance
- Became the fascist leader of Spain
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- outlawed sales of arms to nations at war
- outlawed loans to nations at war
- outlawed arms and loans to nation ivolved in civil war
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- Agreed, along with France, to defend Czechoslovakia against Hitler
- Hitler met with Chamberlain and premier Daladier and he stated that the Sudetendland would be his "last territorial demand"
- France and England (Chamberlain) agreed
- Winston Churchhill disagreed strongly with the decision to avoid conflict
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- Was the opposition of Chamberlain and strongly disagreed with the signing of the Munich agreement allowing Hitler to annex part of Czechoslovakia
- Eventually became the prime minister of Great Britain (England)
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- a policy of giving up your principles to pacify and aggressor as Winston Churchill felt England and France did with the Munich Agreement
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- Surprisingly Stalin signed the nonaggression act with Hitler which meant they would not attack eachother
- This meant there would not the a 2 front war
- There was also a secret pact that Stalin would get 1/2 of Poland
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- lightning war
- used in the invasion of Poland
- fast tanks, powerful aircraft, take enemy by surprise, then quickly crush all opposition with overwhelming force
- 2 days after the invasion on Poland, France and Britain declared war on Germany (beginning of WWII)
- Poland was completely overtaken in 3 weeks before France and Britain could organize forces
- two weeks in, the Soviet Union invaded from the east andtook some of its territory
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- French general fled to england when France was invaded by Germany
- Set up and interim government proclaiming that France had lost a battle, but not the war
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- Germany, Italy, and Japan
- signed Tripartite Pact declaring that each had eachother's back if attacked
- For the US, this meant if they got into the war, they would have to fight on both coasts
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- Roosevelt supported this plan to lend or lease arms and other supplies if the country's defense was vital to the US
- Roosevelt likened it to lending a hose to a neighbor whose house was on fire, thereby avoiding your house catching on fire
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- Result of a secret meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill aboard the USS Agusta
- While Roosevelt told Churchill he could not get Congress to declare war he would "wage war" and "do everything" to "force an incident"
- Became the basis of the charter of the United Nations
- The declaration was signed by 26 nations, 4/5 of thehuman race
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- Those countries that fought agianst the axis
- initially France and Great Britain
- Joined later by Soviet Union and the US
- Eventually Italy and others
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- Chief of staff of Japan's army, later to become the prime minister of Japan
- launched the invasion into Manchuria
- Ordered the invasion of Pearl Harbor
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- Army chief of staff
- pushed for the formation of WAAC for women to fill noncombat positions
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- Women's Auxiliary Army Corp
- filled noncombat positions in the Army during WWII
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- African American labor leader
- Planned a protest in Washingto against descrimination in the military and industry during the war
- Under the threat of 100,00 marchers, President Roosevelt backed down and called for war industry to no descriminate
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- President Roosevelt ordered the Office of Science Research andDevelopment (OSRD) to try to build an atom bomb quicker than expected
- It is the code name given to the rush research project
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- Freezing wages, prices, and rent
- rationed foods and items such as meat, butter,sugar, shoes, etc
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- decided which companies would convert from peacetime to wartime efforts
- made sure the companies had the resoures they needed
- organized nationwide drives to collect goods needed for the wartime effort
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- American general led Operation Torch
- opened a new fron in North Africa
- won back the territory
- great moral as well as military victory
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- all-black squadron of pilots
- scored the first victory against enemy planes and went on to be an important part of the success in Italy
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- Became president after Roosevelt had a stoke
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- left Phillipines under orders from President Roosevelt - vowed he would return
- took Iwo Jima - important victory
- Oversaw the rebuilding of Japan
- Introduced free-market economy and democracy
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- Admiral the led the battle of Midway
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- US had broken the Japanese code and knew that the Midway Islands were the next target
- Sent out scout planes that found the Japanese fleet
- Avenged Pearl Harbor by destroying their fleet
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- A plane filled with bombs that crash into military targets
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- lead the development of the atomic bomb
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- an important Japanese military center that the first atomic bomb was dropped on
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- 3 days after Hiroshima the Japanese had not surrendered, so we bombed the city of Nagasaki
- over 200,000 people died as a result of the 2 bombs
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