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Mrs.Murray's vocab quiz 9-13-11
unit 3 vocab
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Social Studies
6th Grade
10/11/2011

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World War II
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a war fought between 1939 and 1945.
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dictator
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a person who has complete control over a country’s government
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fascism
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government led by a powerful dictator and controlled by the military.
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Adolf Hitler
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dictator of Germany during WWII
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Nazis
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political party led by Adolf Hitler that terrorized Europe for years.
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Holocaust
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the murder of about 6 million Jews and 4 million other Europeans during WWII.
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Pearl Harbor
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Hawaiian city that was bombed by the Japanese on December 7, 1941. This is the reason why the U.S. got involved in WWII.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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U.S. President during WWII; he died before the war was over.
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Winston Churchill
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Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII.
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Joseph Stalin
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dictator of the Soviet Union during WWII.
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Benito Mussolini
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dictator of Italy during WWII.
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Harry S. Truman
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U.S. President that dropped the atomic bomb on Japan. He took office after the death of FDR.
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NATO
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military alliance between the U.S.A., Canada, and Western Europe. This was an agreement between those countries that if any of those countries were attacked everyone involved would go to war.
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Marshall Plan
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when the U.S.A. gave Europe financial, industrial, and agricultural aid. This helped them to rebuild after the war.
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Soviet Union
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formed from the Russian Empire in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution. It was comprised of 15 republics.
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Iron Curtain
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invisible wall of tension between the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union. This term was coined by Winston Churchill.
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Cold War
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tensions that developed after WWII between the Soviet Union and the Western world (U.S. & Western Europe).
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Warsaw Pact
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alliance of the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern European Countries.
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Berlin Wall
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103 mile long wall that divided East (communist) and West Germany (democratic).
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Reunification
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to unify after being divided. Germany was reunified when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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dictator of the Soviet Union when it collapsed in 1991.
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It punished Germany,leading to a depression there. therefor, Hitler gained power by saying i can help you. i can resolve all your pobnlems and end communism. but he came from a communist country and tricked them into thinking he was the good guy in the equation.
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How did the Treaty of Versailles and the world-wide depression lead to the start of World War II?
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Germany invaded poland in 1939.
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What started WWII
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
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Why did the USA get involved in WWII?
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It was a time of horrible deaths. Hitler killed over 3 million people in the so called "work camps" they were more like death camps.
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Why is the Holocaust a significant event in World War II?
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They kept spending all their money on weapons and improvements that eventually they just ran out and everything fell apart.
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What events led to the collapse of the Soviet Union?
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