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ch 29
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10th Grade
03/09/2010

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Elie Halevy
Definition
Wrote "The Era of Tyrannies", said that Facism, Nazism, and Communism were "fueding brothers" with a common father: the nature of modern war.
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Classical Liberalism
Definition
Sought to limit the power of the state and protect the rights of the individual.
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New Economic Policy
Definition
Re-established limited economic freedom in an attempt to rebuild agriculture and industry.
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"Socialism in One Country"
Definition
Stalins theory, stated that Russia had the ability to build socialism on its own.
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Collectivization
Definition
The forcible consolidation of individual peasant farms into large, state-controlled enterprises.
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Kulaks
Definition
The better-off peasants. They opposed the new system.
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Black Shirts
Definition
Mussolini's growing private army.
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Lateran Agreement
Definition
In which Mussolini recognized the Vatican a tiny, independent state and gave the church heavy financial support.
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Karl Lueger
Definition
Mayor of Vienna and was anti-semitist.
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Mein Kampf
Definition
Hitler's autobiography, where he wrote all his plans... etc.
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Enabling Act
Definition
Gave Hitler absolute dictatorial power for four years.
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SA
Definition
The Nazi Storm Troopers
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SS
Definition
Hitler's elite personal guards.
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Nuremberg Laws
Definition
Deprived Jews of all rights of citizenship.
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Kristallnacht
Definition
An organized wave of violence against the Jews which resulted in smashing of windows, looting, destruction of synagogues. They were then forced to pay for the damages.
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Appeasement
Definition
Britain's adopted policy in which giving Hitler virtually anything he wanted in order to avoid war.
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Rome-Berlin Axis
Definition
Agreement on close cooperation between Italy and Germany. (1936)
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Munich Conference
Definition
Agreement in permitting Germany the annexation of the Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
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Nazi-Soviet nonaggression Pact.
Definition
Agreement between Russia and Germany promising to be neutral if one went to war.
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Sudetenland
Definition
The German-speaking minority of western Czechoslovakia.
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Marshal Petain
Definition
Formed a new French government (Vichy government) and accepted defeat.
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Blitzkreig
Definition
The usage of airplanes, tanks, and trucks. Literally meant "lightning war,"
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New Order
Definition
Based firmly on the principle of Nazi totalitarianism: racial imperialism.
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Primo Levi
Definition
An Italian Jew who became one of the most influential witnesses of the Holocaust.
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Final Solution
Definition
The murder of every single Jew.
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Daniel Goldhagen
Definition
American Historian who reignited the discussion of Nazi crimes.
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"Unconditional Surrender"
Definition
Surrendering without conditions.
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"Arsenal of Democracy"
Definition
Said by Franklin D. Roosevelt promising to help Britain and Russia fight the Germans by giving them military aid.
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Battle of Stalingrad
Definition
Major turning point in the war. Soviet victory.
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Europe First
Definition
American policy in which the U.S. focused on Europe other than Germany. Only 15 percent of the resources were going into the war in the Pacific.
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"Free French"
Definition
French rebel forces that were against Germany.
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Battle of El Alamein
Definition
Combined German and Italian forces defeated by British forces near the outskirts of Alexandria.
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Hiroshima
Definition
Japanese city which was the first city in the world to be hit by an atomic bomb.
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Normandy Invasion
Definition
The largest military operation in history by the Allies in Normandy.
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