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11/02/2011

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Josef Stalin
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Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. Brought about the October Revolution among the Bolshevik revolutionaries
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Totalitarain
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relating to a form of government in which the political party excirses absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life, the individual is suborinated to the state and opposing political/cultural expression is expressed
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B. Mussolini
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Italian Politican who led the National Facist Party and was a big key in the creation of Facism.
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facism
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is a radical authoritarian nationalist political ideology. seek to rejuvenate nation because of a commitment they make to a national community
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Adolf Hitler
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German Dictator. Leader of the Nazi Party. Was the person thay started world war to (Holocaust). Wrote Main Kampf( My Struggle)
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Nazism
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A form of social racism and expansionism and obedience to a strong leader
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Neutrality Acts
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Banned sales of weapons to countries at war
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Nevile Chamberlain
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Served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdoms from May 1937 to May 1940. best known for his appeasment policy and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938
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Winston Churchill
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Britiah politican and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during WW2. highly regarded as one of the greatest wasrtime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice.
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appeasement
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the act of appeasing as by acceding to the demands of.
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nonaggression pact
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International treaty betwenn 2 or more states agreeing ti avoid war or armed conflict between them and resolve their disputes through peaceful negotiations
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Blitzkrieg
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An intense military campaign intended to bring a swifty victory / a swift violent military offense with intensive aerial bombardment
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Charles de Gaulle
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French general/statesman who became poplular during WW2 as the leader of the free french forces in excile (1890 - 1970)
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Holocaust
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Destruction or slaughter of a mass scale. The mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime during the period 1941-45. over 6 million Jews, as well as other groups such as gypsies and homosexuals were murdered at concentreation camps suck as Auschwitz
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Kristallnacht
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"Night of Broken glass". Anit-Jewish pogrom in Nazi germany.
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Genocide
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The deliberate killing of a large group of people. esp. those of a particular ethnic group or nation
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concentration camp
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A place where a large numbers of people esp. political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with in adequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass executiion. most famous concentration cemps Auschwitz, Dachau, Belsen
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Axis powers
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comprised of the countries that were opposed to the Aliies.
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Lend lease act
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was the name of the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, France and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war material between
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Atlantic Charter
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A declaration of eight common principals in the international relations drawn up by Churchill and Roosevelt in August 1941, which provided the ideological basis for the Uniterd Nations
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Allies
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A group of nations taking military action together, in particu;lar the countries that foght with the US in WW1 and WW2
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Hidek: Tojo
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Japanese general of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), the leader of the Taisei Yokusankai, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II
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George Marshall
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American military leader....cheif of staff and secreatary of state
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Nisei
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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 for emergengy management of the U.S. government
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War Production Board
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helped mobilize the war production. esttablished by FDR
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rationing
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have a fixed amout of soemthing
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Dwight Eisenhower
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34th President and US generla who helped with the invasion of Normandy and defeat of Nazi Germany
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D-Day
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The day in World War 2. Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy
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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 World War 2. He was also well-known for his controversial outspokenness
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Harry Truman
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33rd President. Decided to use the Atomic Bomb on Nagisaki and Hiroshima
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Battle of the Bulge
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von Rundstedt launched a powerful counteroffensive in the forest at Ardennes and caught the Allies by surprise
von Rundstedt launched a powerful counteroffensive in the forest at Ardennes and caught the Allies by surprise
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V.E day
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may 8th marking the victory of the allies
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Douglas McArthur
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command troops in south pacific and us general also cheif of staff
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Chester Nimitz
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United States admiral of the Pacific fleet during World War 2 who used aircraft carriers to destroy the Japanese navy
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Kamikaze
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A Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target
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Manhattan Project
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develpoment of the atomic bomb
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Robert Oppenheimer
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creator of the Atomic bomb and leader of the manhattan project
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Hiroshima
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one of the places we used the atomic bomb. the first atomic bomb we drp[[ed
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Nagasaki
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2nd place we bombed with the atomic bomb. after this they surrendered to the US
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Yalta Conference
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meeting betweent he allied powers, roosevelt, stalin and Churchill. at a port on the black sea.The leaders planned the final stages of World War 2 and agreed on the subsequent territorial division of Europe
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United Nations
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inteernational organization of countries set uop in '45 to promote international peace
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GI Bill of Rights
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was an omnibus bill that provided college or vocational education for returning World War 2 veterans and 1 year unemployment pay
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JACL
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the earliest and largest organization in the U.S. to defend the civil rights of Japanese American citizens. Originally focusing on Japanese Americans on the West Coast, the JACL grew to advocate Asian American rights
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Koremastsa vs. U.S.
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court case in which order japense americans into internment camps in world war 2
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