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9505016987Joseph StalinWas the leader of the Soviet Union0
9505016989Benito MussoliniWas an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, and ruled the country as Prime Minister1
9505016994BlizkriegAn intense military campaign intended to bring a quick victory.2
9505016995AppeasmentA 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
9505016997Nazi partyThe political party founded in Germany and brought to power by Hitler4
9505016999United nationsA replacement for the ineffective League of Nations5
9505017001Winston ChurchillBritish Prime Minister (after Neville) meet with FDR and Stalin in the Yalta Conference.6
9505017002Benito MussoliniBecomes Italy's dictator (1925), and has a private military band called the Black Shirts7
9505017005Franklin Delano RooseveltSets up lend-lease act, meets with other leaders in the Yalta Conference (Dies 1945)8
9505017008Pearl Harbor(Dec. 7, 1941)-Naval base, about 2,400 Americans die in attack, US plans, ships destroyed. Made the US join the war.9
9505017011NazismAn extreme form of fascism shaped by Hitler's fanatical ideas about German nationalism and racial superiority10
9505017012Hideki TojoJapanese 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
9505017013AppeasementAccepting demands in order to avoid conflict12
9505017014HolocaustA 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
9505017015Franklin D. RooseveltUS president during most of WWII14
9505017016Harry TrumanPresident after FDR; decided to us atomic bombs on Japan15
9505017018Adolph Hitlergerman leader of Nazi Party. 1933-1945. rose to power by promoting racist and national views16
9505017022Blitzkrieg"Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland in 193917
9505017023D-DayAllied invasion of Normandy. D-day is also called Normandy Landing18
9505017024FascismA political philosophy that glorifies the state above the individual by emphasizing the need for a strong central government led by a dictatorial ruler.19
9505017025GestapoGerman secret police under control of Heinrich Himmler20
9505017027Marshall PlanA 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
9505017028Nuremberg LawsA group of laws that robbed German Jews of their citizenship in 193522
9505017031TotalitarianismA political system in which the government has total control over the lives of individual citizens.23
9505017032United NationsAn international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace24
9505017033Weimar RepublicGerman republic founded after the WWI and the downfall of the German Empire's monarchy.25
9505017034Facismglorification of the state above the individual; extreme nationalism26
9505017035Totalitarianismfreedom of speech, press and religion are denied27
9505017036Who used Totalitarianism?Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini28
9505017037Vladimir LeninRussian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924)29
9505092354Great DepressionA world wide economic failure where people lost money, trade, and jobs30
9505092355AlliesFrance, Britain later Russia and the US31
9505092915New Deala series of federal programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations enacted in the United States during the 1930s in response to the Great Depression32
9505092916Nuremberg Trialsa series of military tribunals held by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war after World War II33
9505093740Albert EinsteinGerman born scientist who opposed the atomic bomb34
9505093741Atomic BombA powerful bomb used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ordered by US President Harry Truman35
9505094619KristallnachtA series of violent Nazi movements against Jews in Germany36
9505094620Rape of NanjingA violent attack on the city Nanjing in China by Japan where their military went in and raped and killed many people37
9505095736Revolutionary RightThe right of people to overthrow the government38

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