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Chapter 29
Collapse of the Old Order
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04/08/2007

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Joseph Stalin
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Bolshevik revolutionary, head of the Soviet Communist Party after 1924, and dicatotor of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. He led the Soviet Union with an iron fist, using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush all opposition (p.766)
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Five-Year plans
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Plans that Joseph Stalin introduced to industrialize the Soviet Union rapidly, beginning in 1928. They set goals for the output of steel, electricyt, machinery, and most other products and were enforced by the police powers of the state.
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Mussolini
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Fascist dictator of Italy (1922-1943). He led ITaly to conquer Ethiopia (1935), joined Germany in the Axis pact (1836), and allied with Germany in WWII. He was overthown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy.
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Fascist Party
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Italian Political party created by Mussolini during WWI. It emphasized aggressive nationalism and was Mussolini's instrument for the creation of a dictatorship in Italy from 1922to 1943.
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Adolf Hitler
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Born in Austria, Hitler became a radical German nationalist during WWI. He led the National Socialist German Worker's Party--the Nazis--in the 1920s and became dictator of Germany in 1933. He led Europe into WWII
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Nazi Party
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German politiacl party joined by Adolf Hitler, emphasizing nationalism, racism, and war. When Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Nazis became the only legal party and an instrument of Hitler's absolute rule. The party's formal name was National Socialist German Worker's Party.
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Chiang Kai-shek
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Chinese military and political leader. Succeeded sun Yat0sen as head of the Guonmindang in 1923; headed the CHinese government from 1928-48; foughat against the Chinese Communists and Japanese invaders. After 1949 he headed the Chinese Nationalist goverment in Taiwan.
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Mao Zedong
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Leader of the Chinese Communist Party. He led the Communists on the Long March and rebuilt the Communist Party and Red Army during the Japanese occupation of China. After WWII, he led the COmmunists to victory over the Guomindang.
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Long March
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The 6,000 mile flight of the Chinese Communists tfrom Southeastern to Northwestern China.
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Stalingrad
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City in Russia, site of a Red Army victory over the German army in 1942-43. The Battle of Stalingrad was yhe turning point in the war between Germany and the Soviet Union. Today Volgograd.
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El Alamein
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Town in Egypt, site of the victory by Britains Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery over German forces led by Genereal Erwin Rommel in 1942-43
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Pearl Harbor
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Naval Base in Hawaii; attacked by Japanese aircraft on 12-17-1941
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Battle of Midway
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US Naval victory over the Japanese fleet in mJune 1942, in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers. It marked a turning point in WWII
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Hiroshima
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City of Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on 8-6-1945. The bombing hastened the end of WWII
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Auschwitz
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Nazi Extermination camp in Poland, the largest center of mass murder during th Holocaust. Close to a million Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and others were killed there.
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Holocaust
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Nazis' program during WWII to kill people they considered undesirable
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