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McDougal Littell - The Americans - Chp 16 Vocabulary
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11th Grade
03/03/2010

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Joseph Stalin
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Leader of Soviet union after Lenin, name = man of steel
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Totalitarian
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Govt that has complete control of its citizens and individuals have no rights
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Benito Mussolini
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Totalitarian dictator from Italy
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Fascism
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A new political movement that consisted on a strong, centralized government w/ powerful dictator
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Adolf Hitler
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Guy who screwed up Germany and was pretty much the cause of WWII
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Nazism
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Type of fascism, more extreme nationalist
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Neutrality Acts
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Congress passed in order to keep US out of wars
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Neville Chamberlain
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British prime minister
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Winston Churchill
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Chamberlain's political rival, later the British prime minister
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Appeasement
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Giving up principles to pacify and aggressor
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Nonaggression pact
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Russia and Germany signed to agree not to fight one other
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Blitzkrieg
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Lightening war
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Charles de Gaulle
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French general
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Holocaust
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Systematic murder of 11 million people
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Kristallnacht
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Night of broken glass, Nazi troops attacked Jewish homes, businesses etc.
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Genocide
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Killing of an entire people
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Concentration camps
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Camps of death
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Axis powers
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Japan, Italy and Germany
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Lend-lease act
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Act passed by Congress to lend and lease arms to countries that could help US
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Atlantic Charter
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Agreement between Britain and US about the war
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Allies
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US, UK and Russia
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Hideki Tojo
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Japanese general, later prime minister
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