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WWII Crosswords
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8th Grade
04/29/2012

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Black Shirts
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Mussolini formed bands of black shirted, armed facists called squadristi or
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Class 
Definition
Marz believed that all of world history was a "history of _______ struggles"
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Lenin
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In 1922 _______ and the communists formally created a new state
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Labor
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In a communist society _______ is shared equally and the benifits of labor are distributed according to need
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Democratic
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By 1939, only 2 major European states--France and Great Britain--remained _______
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Politburo
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A commitee that that had become the leading policy-making body of the communism party
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World wide depression, rise of totalitarian regimes, treaty of versailles, isolationism 
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Causes of WWII
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Appeasment 
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Give dictators what they want and hope that they won't want anything else 
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fascism
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Glorifies the state above the individual by emphasizing the need for a strong central government led by a dictorial leader
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Five
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The First ____-Year plan emphasized maximum production of captial goods and araments 
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25
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It is estimated that Stalin's policies and his deliberate executions led to the death of as many as ____ million people 
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Weimar Republic 
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Democratic government of Germany from the end of WWI to Hitler's take over of Germany in 1933
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Trotsky
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Stalin's initial rival for power in the USSR
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Stalin
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Was the undisputed leader/dictator of the USSR from 1929 until his death in 1953
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Propaganda 
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Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause 
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Inflation 
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the rapid increase in prices 
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limited, freedom
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The totalitarian states that emerged were led by a single leader and a single party-they rejected the idea of ______ government and individual _________
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Totalitarian 
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In a _______ country, individual rights are not viewed as important as the needs of the nation
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Capital goods
Definition
goods devoted to the production of other goods, such as heavy machines 
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Communism 
Definition
the system of government in which the means of production are the property of the entire society rather than individuals 
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Private Property 
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"Under fascism, people retain the semblance or pretense of ____________, but the government holds total power over its use and disposal 
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Rome
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In 1922, in the famous March on _____ Mussolini exclaimed "Either we are allowed to govern , or we will seize power
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pacifism 
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Opposition to war is known as
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Marx
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wrote the Commuist Manifesto 
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France
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Thought the Treaty of Versailles was to easy on Germany 
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Leader
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Mussolini ruled as II Duce, "the _____"
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Middle class
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The _______ fear of socialism, communism, and disorder made the fascist increasingly attractive to many people
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Germany 
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The most affective country by the TOV
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Mussolini
Definition
Established the first European fascist movement in Italy
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England
Definition
Marx and Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto after viewing factory conditions in ________
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Kristallnacht
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A more violent phase of anti-Jewish activity began on the night of November 9, 1938-the ________ or "Night of Broken Glass"
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Allies
Definition
Great Britian, the US, and the Soviet Union were the ______
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Hiroshima 
Definition
The first atomic bomb was dropped on ________
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Siberia 
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Those who resisted Stalin were sent to force labor camps in ________
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uniforms 
Definition
Because of the Spring date for the invasion the Germans had no winter ______
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Sanctions 
Definition
restrictions intended to enforce international law
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Nuremberg 
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The _________ laws excluded Jews from German citizenship and forbade marriages between Jews and German citizens 
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Collectivization 
Definition
The system in which private farms were eliminated-instead, the government owned all the land, while the peasants worked it
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Storm Troops 
Definition
The SA are also known as _________
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Truman
Definition
As Allied military power drew closer to the main Japanese islands in the first few monthes of 1945, Harry S. _______, who had become president after the death of Roosevelt, had a difficult decision to make 
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Nazi
Definition
The National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), or  ______ for short
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Sudetenland
Definition
On September 15, 1938, Hitler demanded that Germany be given the ___________, an area in northwestern Czechoslovakia that was inhabited largely by Germans (3.5 million)
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Luftwaffe
Definition
The German air force 
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Himmler, (Heinrich Himmler)
Definition
Head of the SS
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Front
Definition
Hitler made an agreement with Stalin to avoid a two _____ war 
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Semitism
Definition
At the core of Hitler's ideas was racism, especially anti-_______ 
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SS
Definition
The ___ was originally Hitler's personal bodyguard
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Rearmament
Definition
A massive _____ program was the key to solving the unemployment program in Germany 
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Pearl Harbor 
Definition
On December 7, 1941, Japanese aircraft attacked the US naval base at ________ in the Hawaiian Islands
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military targets 
Definition
In September, in retaliation for a British attack on Berlin, Hitler ordered the Luftwaffe to bomb cities instead of __________
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Blitzkreig 
Definition
Hitler's _______ or "lightening war", used armor columns, called panzar divisions, supported by airplanes
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Struggle
Definition
during his brief stay in jail, Hiter wrote Mein Kampf, or My ______, an account of his movement and its basic ideas
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Enabling Act
Definition
The crowning step of Hitler's 'legal seizure of power came on March 23, 1933, when a 2/3 vote of the Reichstag passed the ____________
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Rhineland
Definition
On March 7, 1936, Hitler sent German troops into the ________, a demilitarized area of Germany 
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Coral Sea
Definition
In the Battle of __________ on May 7 and 8, 1942, American Naval forces stopped the Japanese advance and saved Australia from the threat of invasion 
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Munich 
Definition
an overconfident Hitler staged an armed uprising (Beer Hall Putsch) against the government in _____ in November 1923
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Normandy
Definition

on June 6, 1944 (D-Day), allied forces under US General Dwight D. Eisenhower landed on the ______ beaches in history's greatest naval invasions

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Maginot Line
Definition
A series of concrete and steel fortifications armed with heavy artillery along France's border with Germany 
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Reichstag
Definition
the German government
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Vienna
Definition
While in _____, Hitler developed his basic ideas which he held for the rest of his life 
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Poland 
Definition
On September 1, 1939, German forces invaded _______
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Southeast Asia
Definition

Japan became interested in ________ as a source of raw materials to fuel the military machine 

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Anschluss
Definition
In 1938, Hitler decided to pursue one of his goals:______ or union, with Austria, his native land 
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Oil and metals 
Definition
Japan badly needed the ______ and _______ it was getting from the US
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Third Reich 
Definition
It was Hitler's goal to create a ______, the empire of Nazi Germany 
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Fuhrer
Definition
Public officials and soldiers were all required to take a personal oath of loyalty to Hitler as their ______, or "Leader"
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Terror
Definition
The SS was based on 2 principles: ______ and ideology
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Midway
Definition
The turning point of the war in Asia came on June 4, at the Battle of ______ Island
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