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World War II
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11th Grade
01/29/2009

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Benito Mussolini
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Fascist leader who rose to power in Italy
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Anti-semitism
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Term used for the hatred of Jewish people
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Francisco Franco
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Fascist leader who was responsible of the Spanish Civil War
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Good Neighbor Policy
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FDR's program directed primarily at Latin America which said we would respect the rights of other countries
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Caudillos
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The term for latin American leaders who used force to maintain power
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Popular Front
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This group was an International coalition formed to fight the spread fascism
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Adolph Hitler
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Fascist leader of Germany whose territorial aggression eventually led to World War II
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Ernest Hemingway
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one of American's most famous writers, he wrote about the Spanish Civil War and World War II
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Joseph Stalin
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Communist leader of the Soviet Union
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Herbert Hoover
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Prior to his inauguration, he took a good-will tour of Latin America because of American investments in the area
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Cuba
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FDR signed a treaty with this country in 1934 stating the U.S. would not interfere in their affairs
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United Fruit Company
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A major reason for America's foreign policy in Central America and the Caribbean was this company's possession of million's of dollars of farmland
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Mexico
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This country moved to nationalize, or have the government take control over, its oil industry
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Landowners
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The divide between these people and workers in Latin America increased dramatically because of the early years of the global depression
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Black Shirts
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Common term of Mussolini's army
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Ethiopia
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Mussolini invaded and took control of this poor African country in 1935
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Russia
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The Soviet Union was formed by this country and several of its surrounding states
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Nuremberg Laws
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These were established in Germany as a way of depriving Jews of their citizenship and property
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League of Nations
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Most U.S. senators were against America's joining this group after World War I
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"Make the world safe for democracy"
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Despite Wilson's claim that this is why we joined in the fighting of World War I, few people believed it actually occurred
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World Court
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This was created as an alternative to war, it was hoped it could resolve international disputes
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Disarmament
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The term used for putting limits on the amount of military weapons a country could possess
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Washington Conference
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The hopes of this meeting was naval disarmament and mutual security in the Pacific region
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Kellogg-Braind Pact
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Signed by the U.S. and 14 other nations, it outlawed war except in the case of self-defense
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Allies
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Despite obvious political and economic differences,the U.S. and the Soviet Union became this during World War II
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Axis Powers
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Germany, Italy, and Japan formed this during World War II
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Non-aggression Pact
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Early on, Germany and the Soviet Union signed one of these, with the Soviet Union being promised part of Poland.
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Resistance
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Title of the secret French underground movement that fought against German occupation of France
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Winston Churchill
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He became prime minister of Great Britain in 1940
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Collectives
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Term used for Stalin's reorganizing private land into government-run farms
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Jews and Communists
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Hitler blames these people for Germany's economic decline
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Freedom of Speech
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Mussolini drastically limited this in Italy when he took power
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Political Opponents
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Mussolini rounded up and sent these to prison
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Gulags
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The term used of the labor camps Stalin created for political protesters
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Strikes
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Hitler outlawed workers' rights to engage in this activity
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Military service
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Hitler made this mandatory for all males in Germany
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Holocaust
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Term used for Germany's systematic slaughter of European Jews
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Stalingrad
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Russian city where, after a tremendous German offensive, the Axis troops were forced to surrender
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Two-front war
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After the Allied D-Day invasion of France, Germany was forced to fight this kind of war
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Internment
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Term used for forcing Japanese-Americans out of their homes and into imprisonment
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Mexican-Americans
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The 88th Division of the U.S. Army was comprised of this ethnic group
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Selective Training and Service Act
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This required all men between 21 and 35 to register for the armed service
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War Production Board
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This was created in the U.S. to increase military production in the factories
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Coral Sea
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The battle here stopped the Japanese desire to invade Australia
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Unemployment
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This dropped dramatically in the U.S. during the war
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Draft
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About 2/3rds of the men who served in the U.S. armed services were brought into the military through this
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Japanese
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In the early stages of the war in the Pacific, they had the upper hand because of more soldiers and equipment
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Bataan Death March
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During this, Japanese soldiers led over 70,00 prisoners to their prison camp
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Chester Nimitz
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The commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet
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Midway
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The Allies won this Pacific battle because they had broken the Japanese code
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Blackout drill
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in order to prevent their cities from becoming targets of the Japanese, some cities engaged in this practice
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Sonar
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The naval equivalent of radar
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Overlord
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Code name for the Allied invasion of France in 1944
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Yalta Conference
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Meeting between FDR, Stalin, and Churchill to plan the post-war world
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Paperback books
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These were first published during World War II
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Norman Rockwell
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American artist well known for his covers of the Saturday Evening Post
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Rosie the Riveter
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Nickname given to the numerous women who entered the workforce in nontraditional jobs during the war
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African Americans
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Many production plants would still not hire these people, or only employ them as janitors
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Okinawa
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The largest landing force in history invaded here in April of 1945
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Manhattan Project
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Code name for the development of the atomic bomb
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Hiroshima
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The first atomic bomb was dropped here as the Japanese refused to surrender unconditionally
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Nagasaki
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The target for the second atomic bomb
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Government farms
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Stalin took away private land and turned it into these
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Government jobs
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Hitler made it illegal for Jews and non-Germans to hold these
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Freedom of speech
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Mussolini put severe limitations on this
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Political opponents
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Mussolini rounded these up and threw them in jail
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Labor camps
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Stalin sent his political opponents to these
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Strikes
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Hitler made these illegal in Germany
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Military service
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Hitler made this mandatory for all young males in Germany
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Voting rights
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Mussolini restricted these during his reign
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Invading Japan
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People argued that by dropping the bomb we could avoid doping this
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Negotiating peace
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Those that did not want to use the bomb argued that japan was thinking of doing this
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Soviets
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WIth their help against Japan we could defeat them without using the bomb
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Payback
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Dropping the bomb would do this to the japanese, who started the war anyway
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Postwar position
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Some argued the only reason we dropped the bomb was to strengthen this
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Military leaders
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We had to drop the bomb because these people in Japan were opposed to plans for peace
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