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Chapter 29
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10th Grade
03/12/2011

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Appeasement
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British Policy that granted Hitler everything he could want to avoid war.
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Black Shirts
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A secret army, basically, owned by Mussolini that pushed the socialists out of city governments in Northern Italy.
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Blitzkrieg
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"Lightning War" using planes, tanks, and trucks, the first time Hitler used it was when he crushed Poland in about four weeks time.
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Collectivization
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The forcible consolidation of individual peasant farms into large, state-controlled enterprises.
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Enabling Act
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Act pushed through the Reichstag by the Nazis which gave Hitler absolute dictorial power for four years.
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Europe First
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American policy that promised huge military aid and helped solidify the anti-Hitler coalition.
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Fascism
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Glorification of the military, and antisocialism aimed at destroying working-class movements.
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Five-Year Plan
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Created by Stalin, this plan was a deadly one, killing many, though it helped stabilize the economy.
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Fuhrer
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"Leader-Dictator" with unlimited, arbitrary power, this name was bestowed upon Adolf Hitler.
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Kulaks
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Better-off peasants who were stripped under Stalin of land and livestock.
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Lateran Agreement
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A 1929 agreement that recognized the  Vatican as a tiny independent state.
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Nazism
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A movement born of extreme nationalism and racism and dominated by Adolf Hitler for as long as it lasted.
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NEP
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Lenin's policy to re-establish limited economic freedom in an attempt to rebuild agriculture and industry.
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New Order
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Hitler based program that treated Slavs with harsh hatred and were known as "Sub-Humans."
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Totalitarianism
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A dictatorship that exercises unprecedented control over the masses and seeks to mobilize them for action.
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