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World War 2--World History Flashcards

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9830344217FascismA political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights, and a dictatorial one-party rule.0
9830344218TotalitarianismA political system in which the government has total control over the lives of individual citizens.1
9830344219DictatorA ruler who has complete power over a country2
9830344220NazismAdolf Hitler used fascism to create this type of government based on totalitarian ideas and was used to unite Germany during the 1930s.3
9830344221AppeasementAccepting demands in order to avoid conflict4
9830344222Axis PowersGermany, Italy, Japan5
9830344223Allied PowersAlliance of Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and France during World War II.6
9830344224Blitzkrieg"Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland n 19397
9830344229The Pacific TheaterThe war in the Pacific, most islands were involved, Japan tried to take these islands and sent 65 bombing raids all the way to Australia.8
9830344230The HolocaustThe Holocaust took place in Europe between 1933 and 1945. Six million Jews were systematically and brutally murdered by the Nazis and their collaberators. Miliions of non-Jews, including Roma and Sinti(Gypsies), Serbs, political dissidents, people with disabilities, homosexuals and Jehova's Witnesses, were also persecuted by the Nazis.9
9830344231Bataan Death MarchJapanese forced about 60,000 of americans and philippines to march 100 miles with little food and water, most died or were killed on the way10
9830344232Kamikazesin World War II, Japanese pilots who loaded their aircraft with bombs and crashed them into enemy ships11
9830344235NagasakiJapanese city devastated during World War II when the United States dropped the second atomic bomb on Aug 8th, 1945.12
9830344236HiroshimaCity in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.13
9830344238Puppet StateA supposedly independent country under the control of a powerful neighbor14
9830344239Concentration Campsprison camps used under the rule of Hitler in Nazi Germany. Conditions were inhuman, and prisoners, mostly Jewish people, were generally starved or worked to death, or killed immediately.15
9830344240Internment CampsDetention centers where more than 100,000 Japanese Americans were relocated during World War II by order of the President.16
9830344242PropagandaIdeas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause.17
9830344245Death Campscamps used under the rule of Hitler in Nazi Germany for the purpose of killing prisoners immediately.18
9830344246Kristallnacht(Night of the Broken Glass) November 9, 1938, when mobs throughout Germany destroyed Jewish property and terrorized Jews.19
9830344247Anti Semitismhatred towards Jews20

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