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Chapter 13
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03/31/2014

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Adolf Hitler
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German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945)
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American First Committee
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(AFC) was the foremost non-interventionist pressure group against the American entry into World War II.
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Anschluss
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that is a unification or joinder, was also part of the propaganda used in 1938 by Hitler and the Nazis to create the impression the events of March 1938 were not backed and enforced by military pressure
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appeasement
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the action or process of appeasing.
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Atlantic Charter
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was a pivotal policy statement issued in August 14,1941 that, early in World War II
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Axis powers
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were led by Nazi Germany. Axis powers definition. Germany, Italy, and Japan, which were allied before and during World War II. (Compare Allies.)
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Battle of Britain
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was one of the defining moments of 1940. With the fall of France in June 1940
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Benito Mussolini
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talian fascist dictator (1883-1945)
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blitzkrieg
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blitzkrieg
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collective
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done by people acting as a group or a cooperative enterprise
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concentration camp
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a place where large numbers of people, esp. political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution.
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extermination camp
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camps (or death camps) were camps during World War II (1939–45) built primarily but not exclusively by Nazi Germany to systematically kill millions of people by execution (primarily by gassing) and extreme work under starvation conditions.
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fascism
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an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
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Gestapo
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(German pronunciation: [ɡeˈstaːpo, ɡəˈʃtaːpo] ( listen); abbreviation of Geheime Staatspolizei, "Secret State Police")
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hemispheric defense zone
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western half of atlantic ocean was part of western hemisphere an would remain nutral
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internationalism
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the state or process of being international. or the principles of any of the four Internationals.
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Joseph Stalin
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Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953)
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Lend-Lease Act
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alowwed us to lend or lease arms of vital intrest of u.s.
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Maginot Line
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(French: Ligne Maginot, IPA: [liɲ maʒino]), named after the French Minister of War André Maginot, was a line of concrete fortifications, obstacles, and weapons installations that France constructed along its borders with Germany during the 1930s.
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Manchuria
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a region in northeastern China
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Munich Conference
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An agreement between Britain and Germany in 1938, under which Germany was allowed to extend its territory into parts of Czechoslovakia in which German-speaking peoples lived.
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Neutrality Act of 1935
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Roosevelt's State Department had lobbied for embargo provisions that would allow the President to impose sanctions selectively.
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Neville Chamberlain
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British statesman who as Prime Minister pursued a policy of appeasement toward fascist Germany (1869-1940)
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Nuremburg Laws
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The Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935 deprived German Jews of their rights of citizenship, giving them the status of "subjects" in Hitler's Reich. The laws also made it forbidden for Jews to marry or have sexual relations with Aryans or to employ young Aryan women as household help. 
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regime
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a government, esp. an authoritarian one
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Shoah
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is a nine-hour thirty-six minute French documentary film completed by Claude Lanzmann in 1985 about the Holocaust (or Shoah). The film primarily consists of interviews and visits to key Holocaust sites.
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strategic materials
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materials needed for war (oil scrap iron)
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Vladimir Lenin
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Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924)
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Wannsee Conference
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was a meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942
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Winston Churchill
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British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953 (1874-1965)
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