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Title: Chapter 5 Vocab

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Created: 11/18/2008 09:24:35

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FASCISM

 

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system of political beliefs that is athoritarian/totalitarian/nationalist came to power in Germany and Italy
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MUSSOLINI

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the fascist leader in Italy from 1922 until invaded by Germany
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STALIN

 

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Leader of Soviet Union communist party after Lenin. Totalitarian who caused millions of russian deaths
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FRANCISCO FRANCO

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leader of the rebels in the spanish civil war, won to become a fascist leader in Spain
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HITLER

 

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fascist leader of the Nazi party in Germany started WWII and created the holocaust
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APPEASEMENT

 

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policy of many democracies to make concessions to Hitler in order to avoid war
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SUDENTENLAND

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german speaking region of western Czechoslovakia that hitler took over in 1938
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NEVILLE CHAMBERLAND

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British Prime Minister during WWII
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BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AIR TRAINING PLAN

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British pilots would come and train amateur pilots in the British Commonwealth
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C.D. HOWE

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was a leading politician. In the 1940s and 1950s, he was known as the Minister of Everything, elected in 1935
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CROWN COPORATION

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government owned corporation
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PHONEY WAR

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in the months following Germany's invasion on poland, both sides were not making any real tactical attacks