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Josef Stalin
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was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953
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Totalitarian
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a political system where the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible
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B. Mussolini
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was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism
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Fascism
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a radical authoritarian nationalist political ideology
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Adolf Hilter
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was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party
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Nazism
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was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany
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Neutrality Acts
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were laws that were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to WW2
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Neville Chamberlain
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was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940
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Winston Churchill
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was a British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the WW2
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Appeasement
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a diplomatic policy aimed at avoiding war by making concessions to another power
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Nonaggression Pact
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an international treaty between two or more states/countries agreeing to avoid war or armed conflict between them and resolve their disputes through peaceful negotiations
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Blitzkrieg
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an anglicized word describing all-mechanized force concentration of tanks, infantry, artillery and air power, concentrating overwhelming force at high speed to break through enemy lines - "lightning war"
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Charles de Gaulle
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was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during WW2
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Holocaust
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was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators
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Kristallnacht
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was a pogrom or series of attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria on 9–10 November 1938 - "night of broken glass"
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Genocide
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defined as "the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group"
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Concentration Camp
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places during the Holocaust where the Jews were murdered
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Axis Powers
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also known as the Axis alliance, Axis nations, Axis countries, or just the Axis, was an alignment of great powers during the mid-20th century that fought WW2 against the Allies
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Lend-Lease Act
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was the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945
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Atlantic Charter
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a pivotal policy statement first issued in August 1941 that early in WW2 defined the Allied goals for the post-war world
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Allies
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the countries that opposed the Axis powers during the WW2
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Hideki Tojo
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was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army
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George Marshall
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was an American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense
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Nisei
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a Japanese language term used in countries in North America, South America and Australia to specify the children born to Japanese people in the new country
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Office of Price Administration
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was established within the Office for Emergency Management of the United States government by Executive Order 8875 on August 28, 1941
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War Production Board
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was established as a government agency on January 16, 1942 by executive order of Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Rationing
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the controlled distribution of scarce resources, goods, or services
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Dwight Eisenhower
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was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961
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D-Day
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were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, in Operation Overlord, during WW2
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George Patton
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was a United States Army officer best known for his leadership while commanding corps and armies as a general during WW2
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Harry Truman
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was the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953)
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Battle of the Bulge
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was a major German offensive, launched toward the end of WW2 through the densely forested Ardennes mountain region of Wallonia in Belgium
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V-E Day
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the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich - "Victory in Europe Day"
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Douglas MacArthur
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was an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army
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Chester Nimitz
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was a five-star admiral in the United States Navy
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Kamikaze
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were suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of WW2
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Manhattan Project
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was a research and development program, led by the United States with participation from the United Kingdom and Canada, that produced the first atomic bomb during WW2
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Robert Oppenheimer
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was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley - helped create the A-bomb
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Hiroshima
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city in Japan, first bombed by the A-bomb
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Nagasaki
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city in Japan, bombed three days after Hiroshima using the A-bomb
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Yalta Conference
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held February 4–11, 1945, was the wartime meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization
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United Nations
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an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law
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GI Bill of Rights
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was an omnibus bill that provided college or vocational education for returning WW2 veterans as well as one year of unemployment compensation
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JACL
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was formed in 1929 to protect the rights of Japanese Americans from the state and federal governments - Japanese American Citizens League
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Korematsu vs. US
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was a landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during WW2
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