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| 140930081 | Totalitarianism | a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | 0 | |
| 140930082 | fascism | a political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition | 1 | |
| 140930083 | appeasement | Satisfying the demands of dissatisfied powers in an effort to maintain peace and stability. | 2 | |
| 140930084 | Adolf hitler | Leader of the Nazi Party and the Third Reich in Germany during World War II. | 3 | |
| 140930085 | Benito mussolini | head of the Italian Fascist party. Mussolini was known as El Duce and was leader of Italy, the first Fascist regime, during World War II. | 4 | |
| 140930086 | Hideki tojo | Prime minister of Japan during World War II | 5 | |
| 140930087 | German conquests before WWII (know in order) | austria, czeckslovakia, | 6 | |
| 140930088 | invasion of poland begins WWII (know the date!) | on september 1st, 1939 germany sent a prisoner in a german uniform into poland and then shot him and blamed it on poland and attacked | 7 | |
| 140930089 | Japanese advances before WWII (especially nanjing) | Japan attacked china and killed 200,000 to 300,000 civilians in the capitol nanjing | 8 | |
| 140930090 | 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. | 9 | |
| 140930091 | 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. | 10 | |
| 140930092 | lend-lease act | Approve by Congress in March 1941; The act allowed America to sell, lend or lease arms or other supplies to nations considered "vital to the defense of the United States." | 11 | |
| 140930093 | 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 | 12 | |
| 140930094 | allies | Group of nations, including the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union, who opposed the Axis powers | 13 | |
| 140930095 | axis | germany, japan, italy | 14 | |
| 140930096 | blitzkrieg | "Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland n 1939 | 15 | |
| 140930097 | bushido | This was the code that Japanese samauri's follwed. It was their code, and way of believing. A samaurai was expected to show reckless courage. | 16 | |
| 140930098 | kamikaze | Japanese suicide pilots who loaded their planes with explosives and crashed them into American ships. | 17 | |
| 140930099 | battle of britain | an aerial battle fought in World War II in 1940 between the German Luftwaffe (air force), which carried out extensive bombing in Britain, and the British Royal Air Force, which offered successful resistance. | 18 | |
| 140930100 | pearl harbor | base in hawaii that was bombed by japan on December 7, 1941, which eagered America to enter the war | 19 | |
| 140930101 | battle of the atlantic | Long-Lasting WWII naval war to control Atlantic Ocean trade routes | 20 | |
| 140930102 | battle of stalingrad | Unsuccessful German attack on the city of Stalingrad during World War II from 1942 to 1943, that was the furthest extent of German advance into the Soviet Union. | 21 | |
| 140930103 | operation torch | Codename for allied invasion of North Africa from November 1942 to September 1943 | 22 | |
| 140930104 | D-Day | June 6, 1944 - Led by Eisenhower, over a million troops (the largest invasion force in history) stormed the beaches at Normandy and began the process of re-taking France. The turning point of World War II. | 23 | |
| 140930105 | battle of the bulge | December, 1944-January, 1945 - After recapturing France, the Allied advance became stalled along the German border. In the winter of 1944, Germany staged a massive counterattack in Belgium and Luxembourg which pushed a 30 mile "bulge" into the Allied lines. The Allies stopped the German advance and threw them back across the Rhine with heavy losses. | 24 | |
| 140930106 | VE day | May 8, 1945; victory in Europe Day when the Germans surrendered | 25 | |
| 140930107 | Bataan death march | April 1942, American soldiers were forced to march 65 miles to prison camps by their Japanese captors. It is called the Death March because so may of the prisoners died en route. | 26 | |
| 140930108 | battle of midway | U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in June 1942, in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers. It marked a turning point in World War II. | 27 | |
| 140930109 | battle of iwo jima | American battle on Japanese territory in which 30,000 marines helped assist in amphibious assaults. Involved the US's territorial claim of Mount Suribachi to defeat the Japanese | 28 | |
| 140930110 | manhattan project | code name for the secret United States project set up in 1942 to develop atomic bombs for use in World War II | 29 | |
| 140930111 | atomic bombing of japan | hiroshima august 6 nakasaki august 9 | 30 | |
| 140930112 | VJ day | "Victory over Japan day" is the celebration of the Surrender of Japan, which was initially announced on August 15, 1945 | 31 | |
| 140930113 | rationing | Taking items that are in short supply and distributing them according to a system. For instance, during World War II, gas, sugar, and butter were a few of the items rationed in the United States. | 32 | |
| 140930114 | rosie the riveter | A propaganda character designed to increase production of female workers in the factories. It became a rallying symbol for women to do their part. | 33 | |
| 140930115 | propaganda | information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause | 34 | |
| 140930116 | japanese internment | Japanese and Japanese Americans from the West Coast of the United States during WWII. While approximately 10,000 were able to relocate to other parts of the country of their own choosing, the remainder-roughly 110,000 me, women and children-were sent to hastly constructed camps called "War Relocation Centers" in remote portions of the nation's interior. | 35 | |
| 140930117 | franklin roosevelt | the 32nd president of the United States. He was president from 1933 until his death in 1945 during both the Great Depression and World War II. He is the only president to have been elected 4 times, a feat no longer permissible due to the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution. | 36 | |
| 140930118 | harry truman | The 33rd U.S. president, who succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt upon Roosevelt's death in April 1945. Truman, who led the country through the last few months of World War II, is best known for making the controversial decision to use two atomic bombs against Japan in August 1945. After the war, Truman was crucial in the implementation of the Marshall Plan, which greatly accelerated Western Europe's economic recovery. | 37 | |
| 140930119 | joseph stalin | dictator of the Soviet Union; worked with US during WWII, but escalated Cold War | 38 | |
| 140930120 | winston churchill | Britain's new prime minister during WWII who pleaded for US aid | 39 | |
| 140930121 | dwight eisenhower | United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany | 40 | |
| 140930122 | mein kampf | Book writen by Hitler where he outlines his beliefs: Germans are a superior race, The Treaty of Versailles treated Germany unfairly and that a crowed Germany needed the lands of Eastern Europe and Russia | 41 | |
| 140930123 | nuremberg laws | established legal basis in Nazi Germany for discrimination against Jews. | 42 | |
| 140930124 | kristallnacht | Night of Broken Glass, Nov 9 1938 night when the Nazis killed or injured many jews & destroyed many jewish propertys | 43 | |
| 140930125 | ghetto | a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions | 44 | |
| 140930126 | concentration camps | prison 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. | 45 | |
| 140930127 | final solution | final solution of the Jewish question-murder of every single Jew-had begun-mass arresting, and trafficking of Jews to the concentration camps-mass killings occurred as well in the gas chambers | 46 | |
| 140930128 | nuremberg trials | Trials of the Nazi leaders, showed that people are responsible for their actions, even in wartime | 47 |
