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| 697272433 | Franco | Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death (1892-1975) | 0 | |
| 697272436 | Churchill | British Prime Minister who opposed the policy of appeasement and led Great Britain through World War II | 1 | |
| 697272439 | Charles Lindbergh | United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean (1902-1974) | 2 | |
| 697272442 | Mao Zedong | This man became the leader of the Chinese Communist Party and remained its leader until his death. He declared the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 and supported the Chinese peasantry throughout his life. | 3 | |
| 697272444 | Stalin | Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953) | 4 | |
| 697272446 | Mussolini | founded fascism and ruled Italy for almost 21 years, most of that time as dictator. He dreamed of building Italy into a great empire, but he led his nation to defeat in World War II (1939-1945) and was executed by his own people. | 5 | |
| 697272448 | Wendell Wilkie | Popular choice for Repub nominee in election of 1940. Critized New Deal, but largely agreed with Roosevelt on preparedness and giving aid to Britain. Lost to Roosevelt. | 6 | |
| 697272450 | Cordell Hull | Secretary of State under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and founder of the United Nation. | 7 | |
| 697272452 | Marshal Petain | This aging leader of France accepted defeat to the Germans, which allowed him to keep a very small portion of the south of France to himself under the puppet government of Vichy France | 8 | |
| 697272454 | Chamberlin | England's prime minister at begining of WWII infamous for always using appeasement with Hitler | 9 | |
| 697272456 | Hitler | German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945), Nazi leader and founder; had over 6 million Jews assassinated during the Holocaust | 10 | |
| 697272458 | Jiang Jieshi | Chinese nationalist leader that was against Mao; supported by the US; loss to Mao, so he and his followers fled to Taiwan | 11 | |
| 697272460 | Billy Mitchell | United States aviator and general who was an early advocate of military air power (1879-1936) | 12 | |
| 697272462 | Albert Einstein | physicist born in Germany who formulated the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity | 13 | |
| 697272464 | Stimson Doctrine | - response to Japanese in Manchuria - moral lecture (we can't do anything else) - US wouldn't recognize any impairment in China's sovereignty or Open Door | 14 | |
| 697272466 | Nye Commission | 1936, led by Senator Gerald Nye, revealed corruption of American arms manufacturers, some of whom had been supplying Fascist governments with weapons, others calling for entry to WWI | 15 | |
| 697272467 | Panay incident | (FDR) Dec. 12, 1937, The Panay incident was when Japan bombed a American gunboat that was trying to help Americans overseas. This greatly strained U.S-Japanese relations and pushed the U.S further away from isolationism even though Japan apologized. | 16 | |
| 697272468 | Selective Service Act | law requiring men to register for military service | 17 | |
| 697272469 | Atlantic Charter | 1941-Pledge signed by US president FDR and British prime minister Winston Churchill not to acquire new territory as a result of WWII amd to work for peace after the war | 18 | |
| 697272470 | American First Committe | Founded in 1940 to fight against U.S. participation in World War II, the AFC initially enjoyed the backing of Henry Ford and the historian Charles A. Beard. Isolationists in all parts of the United States were involved, but the committee was especially active in Chicago. Indeed, the entire American Midwest stood as one of the strongholds of isolationist feeling. After Charles Lindbergh, an AFC leader, made what was widely considered an anti-Semitic speech in September 1941, the organization began to decline. The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 only further eroded support for the America First Committee and similar isolationist pressure groups. | 19 | |
| 697272473 | "cash and carry" | policy adopted by the United States in 1939 to preserve neutrality while aiding the Allies. Britain and France could buy goods from the United States if they paid in full and transported them. | 20 | |
| 697272475 | St. Louis episode | ... | 21 | |
| 697272477 | Spanish Civil War | civil war in Spain in which General Franco succeeded in overthrowing the republican government | 22 | |
| 697272479 | Munich Conference | 1938 conference at which European leaders attempted to appease Hitler by turning over the Sudetenland to him in exchange for promise that Germany would not expand Germany's territory any further. | 23 | |
| 697272482 | Flying Tigers | 1st American Volunteer Group (AVG) of the Chinese Air Force; trained in Burma before the American entry into World War II with the intention of defending China against Japanese forces | 24 | |
| 697272484 | Greer | US Destroyer that was attacked by a U-Boat, which provoked a shoot-on-site policy | 25 | |
| 697272486 | Non-Aggression Pact | secret agreement between German leader Hitler and Soviet Leader Stalin not to attack one another and to divide Poland | 26 | |
| 697272488 | Neutrality Acts | Originally designed to avoid American involvement in World War II by preventing loans to those countries taking part in the conflict; they were later modified in 1939 to allow aid to Great Britain and other Allied nations. | 27 | |
| 697272490 | election of 1940 | Rossevelt (dem) vs. Wendell Wilkie (rep), Roosevelt wins | 28 | |
| 697272492 | Kristallnacht | Night of Broken Glass, Nov 9 1938 night when the Nazis killed or injured many jews & destroyed many jewish propertys | 29 | |
| 697272494 | NDRC | National Defense Research Committee | 30 | |
| 697272496 | Good Neighbor Policy | FDR's foreign policy of promoting better relations w/Latin America by using economic influence rater than military force in the region | 31 | |
| 697272498 | Reuben James | U.S. destroyer sunk by German submarines off the coast of Iceland in October 1941, with the loss of over a hundred men | 32 | |
| 697272500 | "phony war" | period after the collapse of Poland, until Hitler attacked Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, and Belgium | 33 | |
| 697272502 | Lend-Lease | allows America to sell, lend, or lease arms or other war supplies to any nation considered "vital to the defense of the U.S." | 34 |
