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| 16679726 | leader of italy. created fascism. tries to be like hitler | benito mussolini | 0 | |
| 16679727 | relies on dictatorial rule and a totalitarian regime. the state maintains control of people through censorship. | fascism | 1 | |
| 16679728 | fascists became know as this because they wore black uniforms. violent people. | black shirts | 2 | |
| 16679729 | black shirts invaded rome for him, and the king appt mussolini premier so the people would be happy | how did mussolini take over italian gov? | 3 | |
| 16679730 | italian for "the leader". mussolini took this title. | IL Duce | 4 | |
| 16679731 | a state where the country's major economic activities such as farming, transportation, were formed into corporations | corporatist state | 5 | |
| 16679732 | the german government formed after the treaty of versailles (WWI) | Weimar republic | 6 | |
| 16679733 | National Socialist German Workers' Party or Nazi | German Worker's Party | 7 | |
| 16679734 | Nazi recruit. failed as a young artist. hated jews. became powerful leader of germany | Adolph Hitler | 8 | |
| 16679735 | "my struggle" a book hitler wrote about the spirit of the nazi movement | Mein Kampf | 9 | |
| 16679736 | hitler said he would build up germany's arms and regain lost territory | "greater germany" | 10 | |
| 16679737 | hitler took this to mean "master race". germans.. | aryans | 11 | |
| 16679738 | german for "the leader". hitler had this title. | der Fuhrer | 12 | |
| 16679739 | German secret police under Hitler. | Gestapo | 13 | |
| 16679740 | German empire hitler created | Third Reich | 14 | |
| 16679741 | empire | What does reich mean in german? | 15 | |
| 16679742 | built up Germany's army / sent troops into the rhineland | How did Hitler defy the Treaty of Versailles in 1935 & 1936? | 16 | |
| 16679743 | Hitler and Mussolini signed treaty for alliance | Rome-Berlin Axis | 17 | |
| 16679744 | ten year "naval holiday" in which no major warships would be built | Five-Power Treaty | 18 | |
| 16679745 | take no additional territory from china & maintain the open door policy | Nine-Power Treaty | 19 | |
| 16679746 | pact started by Frank Kellogg of US and French foreign minister Aristide Briand. Made war "illegal". 62 nations signed. | Kellogg-Briand Pact | 20 | |
| 16679747 | Japanese soldiers set off bombs in Manchuria, but Jap gov. blamed Chinese. | What happened at Mukden, Manchuria? | 21 | |
| 16679748 | Japan declared Manchuria independent and gave it this name. | Manchukuo | 22 | |
| 16679749 | Ethiopia | What country did Mussolini invade and capture in Africa? | 23 | |
| 16679750 | They didn't have an army, and the economic sanctions weren't strong enough. | Why was the League of Nations ineffective? | 24 | |
| 16679751 | an elected parliament in Spain that limited the king's power. | Cortes | 25 | |
| 16679752 | a fascist party supported by many conservatives. wanted to preserve the power of the army, landowners, and the church (spain) | Falange | 26 | |
| 16679753 | everyone who was opposed to fascism in spain. including socialists and communists. | Popular Front | 27 | |
| 16679754 | the leader of the Falangist rebels | General Francisco Franco | 28 | |
| 16679755 | the falangist rebels. fascist. | Nationalists | 29 | |
| 16679756 | those who supported the republic | Loyalists / Republicans | 30 | |
| 16679757 | Germany&Italy | Who supported the Nationalists? | 31 | |
| 16679758 | Soviet Union | Who helped the Loyalists? | 32 | |
| 16679759 | antifascist volunteers who helped the republic (US, France, Great Britain) | International Brigade | 33 | |
| 16679760 | european nations created a blockade around spain so that war wouldn't spread to the rest of europe | "nonintervention" policy | 34 | |
| 16679761 | traitors within a country that assist its enemies | fifth column | 35 | |
| 16679762 | spanish for "the leader" | el caudillo | 36 | |
| 16679763 | a painting by pablo picasso, who supported the loyalists. it showed outrage at the bombing of guernica, his hometown. | Guernica | 37 | |
| 16679764 | Germany, Italy, Russia | Axis Powers | 38 | |
| 16679765 | Jesse Owens won four gold medals | Berlin Olympics | 39 | |
| 16679766 | union between Germany and Austria. After awhile the Austrain chancellor opposed it, so Hitler took over Austria. | Anschluss | 40 | |
| 16679767 | czechoslovakia | "the dagger pointed at the heart of Germany" | 41 | |
| 16679768 | edge of czech where many germans&nazis lived. wanted to be apart of germany, but rest of europe didn't want this. | Sudetenland | 42 | |
| 16679769 | a conference that attempted to stop hitler from taking over more countries. hitler signed a piece of paper saying after sudetenland, he would be done. | Munich conference | 43 | |
| 16679770 | Prime minister of france, present during munich conference. listened to chamberlain. | Daladier | 44 | |
| 16679771 | Chamberlain, Prime minister of britain. after munich conference | "Peace in Our Time" | 45 | |
| 16679772 | attempting to preserve peace by yielding to the demands of the aggressor. | appeasement | 46 | |
| 16679773 | hitler wanted the city of Memel, so he forced Lithuania to give up memel and adjacent land | Lithuania | 47 | |
| 16679774 | hitler took this over; king zog&queen geraldine fled. | albania | 48 | |
| 16679775 | he wanted more time before germany turned and attacked russia. he needed to build up troops. | why did stalin make a pact with hitler? | 49 | |
| 16679776 | Germany and soviet union would never attack each other, and each would remain neutral if the other became involved in a war. | German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact (Nazi-Soviet Pact) | 50 | |
| 16679777 | strip of land in poland | Polish corridor | 51 | |
| 16679778 | free trading seaport city | danzig | 52 | |
| 16679779 | invade poland! | What is the german solution to the polish question? | 53 | |
| 16679780 | Sep 1, 1939 | Date: hitler annexed danzig and attacked poland. France, GB, and US declared war on Germany. | 54 | |
| 16679781 | an attack conducted with great speed and force | blitzkrieg | 55 | |
| 16679782 | a series of steel and concrete fortifications between france and germany | maginot line | 56 | |
| 16679783 | phony war; sitting war. this was what happened at the beginning of the war. just blockades and movement of troops | stitzkrieg | 57 | |
| 16679784 | people who were willing to assist their countries enemies | collaborators | 58 | |
| 16679785 | collaborator-traitor. a man's last name from norway who was a traitor. | quisling | 59 | |
| 16679786 | the coastline of this country gave germany really good submarine bases | Why did Hitler want scandinavia? | 60 | |
| 16679787 | prime minister after chamberlain, who had to resign after "peace in our time" didn't work. against appeasement and hated nazis. | winston churchill | 61 | |
| 16679788 | winston churchill quote about plasma&salt water. | "I have nothing to offer except blood, toil, sweat, and tears." | 62 | |
| 16679789 | Belgium, Netherlands, luxembourg | Hitler invaded Benelux... this would be? | 63 | |
| 16679790 | British vs. Germans in dunkirk. British surrounded, and could have been finished off, but hitler waited an extra couple of days. this gave british time for evacuation. | Miracle of Dunkirk | 64 | |
| 16679791 | most french leaders resigned when france was attacked by germany, but he stepped forward to lead. hitler forced him to sign an armistance | Philippe Petain | 65 | |
| 16679792 | N France, including paris, and a strip along the atlantic coast. administered by germans | occupied france | 66 | |
| 16679793 | collaborated w/ germans. controlled most french possessions in africa and the middle east. | vichy france | 67 | |
| 16679794 | man who led free french government. | Charles de Gaulle | 68 | |
| 16679795 | some of the french who had escaped and wanted to keep fighting created this group. | free french government | 69 | |
| 16679796 | underground movements in france and other german occupied countries | "resistance fighters" | 70 | |
| 16679797 | resistance fighters. also means scrubby undergrowth. | maquis | 71 | |
| 16679798 | the swedish diplomat who helped save as many as 100,000 jews. | Raoul Wallenberg | 72 | |
| 16679799 | hitler's airforce | Luftwaffe | 73 | |
| 16679800 | the period of germany's air raids on britain. focused on military and civilian targets. | Battle of Britain | 74 | |
| 16679801 | royal air force (british) | R.A.F. | 75 | |
| 16679802 | people who thought that what was happening in europe was no concern to US. | isolationists | 76 | |
| 16679803 | allowed american firms to sell stuff to warring nations on cash and carry basis. this turned out to be just europe tho because of blockades. | revised neutrality act of 1939 | 77 | |
| 16679804 | authorized the president to supply war materials to great britain on credit | lend-lease act | 78 | |
| 16679805 | a statement that roosebelt and churchill drew up that publicly announced that national policies of the two nations | the atlantic charter | 79 | |
| 16679806 | desert fox. commander of german troops (afrika korps) beaten at battle of el alamein (libya) | erwin rommel | 80 | |
| 16679807 | German troops moved to stalingrad, soviet union. soviets won. huge victory!! | Seige of Stalingrad | 81 | |
| 16679808 | hitler wanted to organize the european continent into a single political and economical system ruled from berlin and by the aryans. | "new order" | 82 | |
| 16679809 | hilter ordered the annihilation of the entire jewish population. | final solution | 83 | |
| 16679810 | the systematic nazi destruction of almost an entire race. | holocaust | 84 | |
| 16679811 | Dec. 7, 1941 | Date: Pearl Harbor | 85 | |
| 16679812 | Japan dropped bombs on the american naval base at pearl harbor, hawaii | Pearl Harbor | 86 | |
| 16679813 | a ship that was sunk in pearl harbor. over 1100 people died | USS Arizona | 87 | |
| 16679814 | leader of japan | premier hideki tojo | 88 | |
| 16679815 | oversaw killings of all jews | Himler | 89 | |
| 16679816 | defeat of rommel's forces that causes him to retreat. | el alamein | 90 | |
| 16679817 | through italy and the balkans | "soft underbelly of the axis" | 91 | |
| 16679818 | convoys and sonar | what helped the allies win "the battle of the atlantic"? | 92 | |
| 16679819 | american defeated japs at sea. | battle of midway | 93 | |
| 16679820 | only some japanese islands were captured | island hopping | 94 | |
| 16679821 | led the US to victory at battle of leyte vs. japan. | general douglas mac arthur | 95 | |
| 16679822 | general douglas mac arthur quotation | "I shall return" | 96 | |
| 16679823 | June 6, 1944 | Date: D-Day | 97 | |
| 16679824 | landing of troops at France's normandy coast | D-Day | 98 | |
| 16679825 | the invastion of northwest france | Operation overload | 99 | |
| 16679826 | 10 day battle. allies vs germany. allies won! german defense collapsed. | battle of the bulge | 100 | |
| 16679827 | germany surrendered. victory in europe!! | V-E day | 101 | |
| 16679828 | suicide missions by kamikaze planes. | kamikaze attacks | 102 | |
| 16679829 | roosevelt, churchill, stalin. agreed that germany would be temporarily divided up among allies. | Yalta conference. | 103 | |
| 16679830 | TRUMAN, churchill, and stalin. churhill replaced halfway through with clement attlee. issued ultimatium to japan, but japs refused. truman decided to use atomic bombs. | potsdam conference | 104 | |
| 16679831 | Hiroshima and Nagasaki | What two cities were the atomic bombs dropped on? | 105 | |
| 16679832 | victory in japan | V-J Day | 106 |
