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| 61678502 | joseph stalin | Communist statesman; leader of Bolshevik Party; became ruler of USSR after Lenin; assumed full military and political leadership. | 0 | |
| 61678503 | five-year plan | Plans that joseph stalin introduced to industrialized the soviet union rapidly, beginning in 1928. They set goals for the output of steel , electricity, machinery, and most other products and were enforced by the police powers of the state. They succeeded in making the Soviet Union a major industrial power before World War II | 1 | |
| 61678504 | benito mussolini | fascist dictator of italy. he led italy to conquer ethiopia , joined germany in the axis pact , and allied italy with germany in World War II | 2 | |
| 61678505 | fascist party | Italian political party created by benito Mussolini during World War I. It emphasized aggressive nationalism and was Mussolini's instrument for the creation of dictatorship in Italy from 1922 to 1943 | 3 | |
| 61678506 | adolf hitler | Born in Austria, hitler became a radical German nationalist during World War I. He led national socialist German Workers' Party--- The Nazi Party--- in the 1920s and became dictator of Germany in 1933. He led Europe into World War II | 4 | |
| 61678507 | nazis | German political party joined by adolf hitler, emphasizing nationalism, racism, and war. Whe Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Nazi party becamethe only legal party and an instrument of Hitler's absolute rule. | 5 | |
| 61678508 | chiang kai-shek | General and leader of nationalist china after 1925. Although he succeeded Sun Yat-sen as head of the Guomindang, he became a military dictator whose major goal was to crush the communist movement led by Mao Zedong | 6 | |
| 61678509 | mao zedong | Leader of the Chinese communist party. He led the communists on the Long March and rebuilt the Communist Party and Red Army during the Japanese occupation of China. After World War II , he led the Communists to victory over the Guomindang. He ordered the Cultural Revolution in 1966 | 7 | |
| 61678510 | Long March | the 6,000 mile flight of CHinese communists from southeastern to northwestern China | 8 | |
| 61678511 | stalingrad | city in russia, site of a Red Army victory over the Germany army in 1942-1943. the battle of stalingrad was the turning point in the war between germany and the soviet union. Today Volgograd | 9 | |
| 61678512 | el alamein | town in egypt, site of the victory by britain's field Marshal Bernard Montgomery over German forces led by General Erwin Rommel (the 'desert fox' ) | 10 | |
| 61678513 | pearl harbor | naval base in hawaii attacked by japanese air-craft on december 7 , 1941. the sinking of much of the U.S. Pacific Fleet Brought the United States into World War II | 11 | |
| 61678514 | battle of midway | U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in june 1942, in which the Japanese lost four of their best air-craft carriers. It marked a turning point in World War II | 12 | |
| 61678515 | hiroshima | City in japan , the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on ausgust 6 ,1945. The bombing hastened the end of world war II | 13 | |
| 61678516 | auschwitz | Nazi extermination camp in Poland in Poland, the largest center of mass murder during the Holocaust | 14 | |
| 61678517 | holocaust | Nazi's program during world warII to kill people they considered undesirable. Millions of jews perished during the holocaust, along with millions of Poles, Gypsies, Communists, Socialists,etc. | 15 | |
| 61678518 | what was industrialization's purpose in the USSR? | to increase the power of the communist party domestically and the power of the soviet unio in relation to other countries | 16 | |
| 61678519 | collectivization | Meant consolidating small private farms into vast collectives and making the farmers work together in commonly owned fields. Each collective was expected to supply the government with a fixed amount of food and distribute what was left among is members. Collectivization was expected to bring the peasants once and for all under government control so they never again could withhold food supplies as they had done during the period of Lenin's New Economic Policy | 17 | |
| 61678520 | kulaks | 'fists'; the better-off peasants who resisted again collectivization | 18 | |
| 61678521 | Stalin's second five-year plan | Intended to increase the output of consumer goods | 19 | |
| 61678522 | Sergei Kirov | The party boss of Leningrad (formerly called Petrograd) ; was assassinated perhaps on stalin's orders | 20 | |
| 61678523 | gulags | labor camps where many died through exposure or malnutrition | 21 | |
| 61678524 | black thursday | october 24, 1929 ; New York stock market went into a dive. millions of investors lost money , as did the banks and brokers who had lent them money | 22 |
