| 9533335833 | Totalitarianism | Radical dictatorship that takes control of the economic, social, intellectual, and cultural aspects of society and takes away the beliefs and behavior of its citizens |  | 0 |
| 9533335834 | Fascism | Movement characterized by expansionist nationalism, antisoicalism, a violent leader, and a glorificaton of war and the military. |  | 1 |
| 9533335835 | Eugenics | Selective Breeding of humans to "improve the general characteristics of society" | | 2 |
| 9533335836 | Joseph Stalin | Dictator of the Soviet Union who installed a five year plan to turn the country into a communist society |  | 3 |
| 9533335837 | Five Year Plan | Stalin's plan to rapidly increase the production of agriculture and industrialization. The principle of collective farming was integrated and many people died of famine. |  | 4 |
| 9533335838 | Leon Trotsky | A contender in the struggle for power in the USSR after Lenin's death. He was beat out by Stalin. |  | 5 |
| 9533335839 | Socialism in one country | Stalin's argument that the Russian dominated USSR had the ability to build itself internally. | | 6 |
| 9533335840 | Collectivization | The consolidation of individual peasant farms into large state controlled enterprises. |  | 7 |
| 9533335841 | Kulaks | The better-off peasants who weren't allowed to join collective farms. Many of them starved or were sent to labor camps for "re-education" |  | 8 |
| 9533335842 | Man-made famine in Ukraine | Mass starvation in Ukraine due to collective farming. 3.5 million people died. | | 9 |
| 9533335843 | Stalinist Terror | Stalin started killing off some of his top executives. 16 "Old Bolsheviks" were caught conspiring against him and were executed. Many faithful union officials, managers, intellectuals, army officers, and ordinary citizens were accused of counter-revolutionary activities and 1-2 million people died. | | 10 |
| 9533335844 | Mussolini | A socialist party leader and radical newspaper editor who urged Italy to join the Allies and was expelled. He started a gang of "Black Shirts" and slowly took over Italy by causing havoc and rose to power. |  | 11 |
| 9533335845 | Black Shirts | Mussolini's private militia that helped drive socialism out of Italy. |  | 12 |
| 9533335846 | Lateran Agreement | a 1929 agreement that recognized the Vatican as a state with Mussolini agreeing to give the church heavy financial support in return for public support from the Pope. |  | 13 |
| 9533335847 | Nazism | A movement/political party that was driven by intense nationalism and racism, led by Adolf Hitler.
Adolf Hitler used fascism to create this type of government based on totalitarian ideas and was used to unite Germany during the 1930s. |  | 14 |
| 9533335848 | Enabling Act | enabled Hitler to get rid of the Reichstag parliament and pass laws without reference to parliament. |  | 15 |
| 9533335849 | SA purge | The SS arrested and executed about 100 SA leaders and other political enemies. | | 16 |
| 9533335850 | Heinrich Himmler | German Nazi who was chief of the SS and the Gestapo and who oversaw the genocide of six million Jews (1900-1945) |  | 17 |
| 9533335851 | The SS | Hitler's elite security force that along with thousands of collaborators captured and executed millions during the war. |  | 18 |
| 9533335852 | Gestapo | German secret police |  | 19 |
| 9533335853 | Nuremberg Laws | 1935 laws defining the status of Jews and withdrawing citizenship from persons of non-German blood. |  | 20 |
| 9533335854 | Kristallnacht | (Night of the Broken Glass) November 9, 1938, when mobs throughout Germany destroyed Jewish property and terrorized Jews. |  | 21 |
| 9533335855 | Appeasement | A policy of making concessions to an aggressor in the hopes of avoiding war. Associated with Neville Chamberlain's policy of making concessions to Adolf Hitler. Even though Hitler was not seen as a large threat, the allies appeased him because no one was anxious to have another world war, they believed Hitler could reach peace after he gained some land, and did not think uniting all German speaking people was unreasonable. |  | 22 |
| 9533335856 | Rome-Berlin Axis | the alliance between Italy and Germany (Mussolini and Hitler) |  | 23 |
| 9533335857 | Spanish Civil War | In 1936 a rebellion erupted in Spain after a coalition of Republicans, Socialists, and Communists was elected. General Francisco Franco led the rebellion. The revolt quickly became a civil war. The Soviet Union provided arms and advisers to the government forces while Germany and Italy sent tanks, airplanes, and soldiers to help Franco. |  | 24 |
| 9533335858 | Francisco Franco | Fascist leader of the Spanish revolution, helped by Hitler and Mussolini |  | 25 |
| 9533335859 | Anshluss | Union of Austria and Germany | | 26 |
| 9533335860 | Lebensraum | Hitler's expansionist theory based on a drive to acquire "living space" for the German people |  | 27 |
| 9533335861 | Sudetenland | an area in western Czechoslovakia that was coveted by Hitler |  | 28 |
| 9533335862 | Nazi-Soviet non-aggression Pact | Hitler and Joseph Stalin agreed not to attack each other but divided Poland for an easy win, but Germany didn't keep true to their word and attacked Stalin later |  | 29 |
| 9533335863 | Poland Invasion | September 1, 1939; invasion made a week after the creation of the Nazi-Soviet Pact; 2 days later WWII started |  | 30 |
| 9533335864 | Blitzkrieg | "Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland in 1939 |  | 31 |
| 9533335865 | 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. |  | 32 |
| 9533335866 | Operation Barbarossa | Code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. Broke the Non-Aggression Pact. |  | 33 |
| 9533335867 | Hitler's New Order | included having the Nazis rule and use resources, enslave conquered people, and exterminate "undesirable elements" (Jews, gypsies, Slavs, homosexuals, disabled) |  | 34 |
| 9533335868 | Holocaust | A mass slaughter of Jews and other civilians, carried out by the Nazi government of Germany before and during World War II. |  | 35 |
| 9533335869 | Einsatzgruppen | Special strike forces responsible for rounding up and killing the Jews |  | 36 |
| 9533335870 | The Final Solution | Nazi Germany's plan and execution of its systematic genocide against European jews during World War II. |  | 37 |
| 9533335871 | Auschwitz-Birkenau | Located in Poland, largest death camp built by the Nazis; over 2,000,000 people died there by means of starvation, diease, and gassing; Birkenau is often referred to as Auschwitz II |  | 38 |
| 9533335872 | Primo Levi | an Italian Jew, who became one of the most influential witnesses to the Holocaust and its death camps; wrote Survival In Auschwitz | | 39 |
| 9533335873 | Greater East Asia Prosperity Sphere | "asia for asians", Japanese claimed to take back countries dominated by Europeans from imperialism, but in actuality wanted resources for themselves |  | 40 |
| 9533335874 | Pearl Harbor | 7:50-10:00 AM, December 7, 1941 - Surprise attack by the Japanese on the main U.S. Pacific Fleet harbored in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii destroyed 18 U.S. ships and 200 aircraft. American losses were 3000, Japanese losses less than 100. In response, the U.S. declared war on Japan and Germany, entering World War II. |  | 41 |
| 9533335875 | Europe First | Military strategy adopted by the United States that required concentrating on the defeat of Germany while maintaining a holding action against Japan in the Pacific. | | 42 |
| 9533335876 | the Grand Alliance | Great Britain, United States, and Soviet Union. |  | 43 |
| 9533335877 | Battle of El Alamein | 1942-British victory in WWII that stopped the Axis forces from advancing into Northern Africa | | 44 |
| 9533335878 | Battle of Stalingrad | A 1942-1943 battle of World War II, in which German forces were defeated in their attempt to capture the city of Stalingrad in the Soviet Union thanks to harsh winter; turning point of war in Eastern Europe |  | 45 |
| 9533335879 | D-Day | 175000 Allied troops invading the beaches of Normandy; Also called Operation Overload. The early hours of the day were spent with airborne attacks to break up the German resistance. The beaches of Normandy (which were broken into 5 groups) were stormed by US, British, Canadian, Free French, and Polish forces. |  | 46 |
| 9533335880 | VE Day | May 8, 1945; victory in Europe Day when the Germans surrendered |  | 47 |
| 9533335881 | Hiroshima and Nagasaki | nuclear attacks during World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States of America at the order of U.S. President Harry S. Truman |  | 48 |
| 9533335882 | New Economic Policy | Policy proclaimed by Vladimir Lenin in 1924 to encourage the revival of the Soviet economy by allowing small private business and farming using markets instead of communist state ownership. His idea was that the Soviet state would just control "the commanding heights" of the economy like major industry, while allowing ordinary citizens to operate business and property ownership as normal. Joseph Stalin ended this in 1928 and replaced it with greater state ownership, collectivization, and a series of Five-Year Plans. | | 49 |
| 9533335883 | Communism | A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state. | | 50 |
| 9533335884 | Ghettos | Sections of towns and cities in which Jews were forced to live. |  | 51 |
| 9533335885 | Nuremberg Trials | A series of court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II, in which Nazi leaders were tried for aggression, violations of the rules of war, and crimes against humanity. |  | 52 |
