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05/24/2010

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Benito Mussolini
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Started the fascist Party
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Adolf Hitler
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Started the Nazis party
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Friedrich Nietzsche and Soren Kierkegaard
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These men formulated existentialism
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Sigmund Freud
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formulated the system known as psychoanalysis
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J. Gresham Machen, R.A. Torreym Billy Sunday, Harry Rimmer
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Some great preachers and defended the truth in America
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Charles Lindbergh
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made the first non stop transatlantic flight in 1927
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Herbert Hoover
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The preseident at the time of the Great depression
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Known as FDR; started trade with Russia by recognizing communism in the soviet union
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Haile Selassie
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the brave emperor of Ethiopia who appealed to the league of nations for help.
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Francisco Franco
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led the revolutionary forces in the spanish civil war
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neville Chamberlain
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the british prime minister who was a leading voice in europe for peace and conciliation
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Joseph stalin
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the communist dictator of Russia
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charles de gaulle
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led the Free french government
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Winston churchill
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became the prime minister of great Britain after neville chamberlain resigned
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Hirohito
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the official head of the Japanese government
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Hideki tojo
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held the reins of power in Japan
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Chiang Kia shek
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Nationalist chinese leader who asked america for help
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Erwin rommel
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was forced to retreat in the war in Africa
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bernard montgomery
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the leader of british troops who pushed all the way to libya
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Dwight d/ eisenhower
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was chosen to head up the invasion of Hitlers europe
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Douglas MacArther
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he was ordered to leave the Phillipines so that he would not be captured. But he promised the filipinos that he shal return
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harry s truman
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the vice president who became president because president roosevelt died
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fascism
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a form of socialism which allows people to keep their private property but takes away their freedoms
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Nazism
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a form of socialism created by Hitler
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"Roaring Twenties"
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a very prosperous decade for America ; the symbol is the automobile
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Great Depression
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the worst economic depression the nation has ever experienced. The stock market crash effectiviely shut of the supply of credit
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the new deal
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introduced the U.s to socialism
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Third reich
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What hitler called his new government
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Axis powers
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what germany and italy became known as.
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Nazi- soviet Pact
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signed between hitler andjoseph stalin; included a secret agreement to jointly invade eastern europe and divide the land between them.
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blitzkreig
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German word for Lightning War
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Royal air Force
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held off the Germans for long enough for hundreds of small British crafts to cross the Channel to safety in Britain
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Battle of britian
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also known as london Blitz because the nazis bombed London mercilessly
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Tripartite treaty
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The treaty that joined Japan in the axis powers
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december 7, 1941
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when the japanese made a surprise attack on the U.S naval fleet and airfield at Pearl Harbor
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D-Day
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June 6, 1944, the largest amphibious assault in history
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the germans last great offensive in the west
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battle of the bulge
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V-E day
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victory in europe day
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Bataan Death march
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a battle in which over 10,000 american soldiers died
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Battle of Coral Sea
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the first naval battle in history in which the enemy ships never even saw each other.
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Battle of Midway
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turned the tide of the war
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Battle of leyte gulf
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a battle in which Japan lost almost all of its remaining ships and planes
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Kamikazes
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suicide planes loaded with explosives
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hiroshima, nagasaki
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where the first two atomic bombs were dropped
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V-J day
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victory in Japan day because of Douglas Macaurther accepted the surrendur
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Treblinka, Dachau, Aushwitz
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Where some of the largest concentration camps were
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Holocost
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the horrible slaughter of over 6 million jews
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