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6015048749Benito MussoliniFascist dictator of Italy. He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia, and allied with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy.0
6015073217FascismA political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights, and a dictatorial one-party rule.1
6015089075TotalitarianGovernment ruled by a single party and/or person that exerts unlimited control over its citizen's lives.2
6015106975Joseph StalinSoviet Union dictator. He led with an iron fist, using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition3
6015125473Collective FarmsA collection of private properties seized by the government to be used as large, government-owned farms.4
6015179789Adolf HitlerFounder of the German Nazi Party and chancellor of the Third Reich. His fascist philosophy, embodied in Mein Kampf, attracted widespread support, and after 1934 he ruled as an absolute dictator. Hitler's pursuit of aggressive nationalist policies resulted in the invasion of Poland and the outbreak of World War II. His regime was infamous for the extermination of millions of people, especially European Jews.5
6015273054NazismAn extreme form of fascism shaped by Hitler's fanatical ideas about German nationalism and racial superiority6
6015299876Hideki TojoHideki Tojo was the 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.7
6015343326Emperor HirohitoEmperor of Japan during World War 2. Leader in name only as the military began to take over the government at this time.8
6015370127MilitarismThe belief or desire of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests.9
6015411193AppeasementAccepting demands in order to avoid conflict10
6015451678Lend-Lease ActAllowed sales or loans of war materials to any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the U.S11
6015529552HolocaustA 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.12
6046701571Nuremberg LawsPlaced severe restrictions of Jews, prohibited from marrying non- Jews, attending schools or universities, holding government jobs, practicing law or medicine or publishing books.13
6046719676Kristallnacht"Night of Broken Glass" -the night of November 9, 1938, on which Nazi troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues throughout Germany14
6046750009SS St. LouisShip of Jewish refugees that arrived to Cuba, the government refused to let them in. The United States also refused. Eventually France, The United Kingdom, Belgium and Holland split the refugees up. Only the ones from the United Kingdom survived, the rest perished in concentration camps15
6046837653Final SolutionHitler's program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people16
6075193441FDR's 4 Freedoms SpeechFour kinds of freedom mentioned by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a speech in 1941 as worth fighting for: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. Roosevelt spoke of the Four Freedoms before the United States entered World War II.17
6075198020Pearl HarborA naval base in Hawaii that was attacked by the Japanese. The attack forced the U.S to go to war.18

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