9505016987 | Joseph Stalin | Was the leader of the Soviet Union | 0 | |
9505016989 | Benito Mussolini | Was an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, and ruled the country as Prime Minister | 1 | |
9505016994 | Blizkrieg | An intense military campaign intended to bring a quick victory. | 2 | |
9505016995 | Appeasment | A new strategy used against Hitler in which the Western democracies would give into the demands of an intruder in order to keep the peace. | 3 | |
9505016997 | Nazi party | The political party founded in Germany and brought to power by Hitler | 4 | |
9505016999 | United nations | A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations | 5 | |
9505017001 | Winston Churchill | British Prime Minister (after Neville) meet with FDR and Stalin in the Yalta Conference. | 6 | |
9505017002 | Benito Mussolini | Becomes Italy's dictator (1925), and has a private military band called the Black Shirts | 7 | |
9505017005 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Sets up lend-lease act, meets with other leaders in the Yalta Conference (Dies 1945) | 8 | |
9505017008 | Pearl Harbor | (Dec. 7, 1941)-Naval base, about 2,400 Americans die in attack, US plans, ships destroyed. Made the US join the war. | 9 | |
9505017011 | Nazism | An extreme form of fascism shaped by Hitler's fanatical ideas about German nationalism and racial superiority | 10 | |
9505017012 | Hideki Tojo | Japanese Army general and prime minister who led Japan through much of World War II and was later executed as a war criminal. Led the invasion of occupied Manchuria and ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor. | 11 | |
9505017013 | Appeasement | Accepting demands in order to avoid conflict | 12 | |
9505017014 | Holocaust | A methodical plan orchestrated by Hitler to ensure German supremacy. It called for the elimination of Jews, non-conformists, homosexuals, non-Aryans, and mentally and physically disabled. | 13 | |
9505017015 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | US president during most of WWII | 14 | |
9505017016 | Harry Truman | President after FDR; decided to us atomic bombs on Japan | 15 | |
9505017018 | Adolph Hitler | german leader of Nazi Party. 1933-1945. rose to power by promoting racist and national views | 16 | |
9505017022 | Blitzkrieg | "Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland in 1939 | 17 | |
9505017023 | D-Day | Allied invasion of Normandy. D-day is also called Normandy Landing | 18 | |
9505017024 | Fascism | A political philosophy that glorifies the state above the individual by emphasizing the need for a strong central government led by a dictatorial ruler. | 19 | |
9505017025 | Gestapo | German secret police under control of Heinrich Himmler | 20 | |
9505017027 | Marshall Plan | A plan that the US came up with to revive war-torn economies of Europe. This plan offered $13 billion in aid to western and Southern Europe. | 21 | |
9505017028 | Nuremberg Laws | A group of laws that robbed German Jews of their citizenship in 1935 | 22 | |
9505017031 | Totalitarianism | A political system in which the government has total control over the lives of individual citizens. | 23 | |
9505017032 | United Nations | An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace | 24 | |
9505017033 | Weimar Republic | German republic founded after the WWI and the downfall of the German Empire's monarchy. | 25 | |
9505017034 | Facism | glorification of the state above the individual; extreme nationalism | 26 | |
9505017035 | Totalitarianism | freedom of speech, press and religion are denied | 27 | |
9505017036 | Who used Totalitarianism? | Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini | 28 | |
9505017037 | Vladimir Lenin | Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924) | 29 | |
9505092354 | Great Depression | A world wide economic failure where people lost money, trade, and jobs | 30 | |
9505092355 | Allies | France, Britain later Russia and the US | 31 | |
9505092915 | New Deal | a series of federal programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations enacted in the United States during the 1930s in response to the Great Depression | 32 | |
9505092916 | Nuremberg Trials | a series of military tribunals held by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war after World War II | 33 | |
9505093740 | Albert Einstein | German born scientist who opposed the atomic bomb | 34 | |
9505093741 | Atomic Bomb | A powerful bomb used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ordered by US President Harry Truman | 35 | |
9505094619 | Kristallnacht | A series of violent Nazi movements against Jews in Germany | 36 | |
9505094620 | Rape of Nanjing | A violent attack on the city Nanjing in China by Japan where their military went in and raped and killed many people | 37 | |
9505095736 | Revolutionary Right | The right of people to overthrow the government | 38 |
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