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11th Grade
11/01/2011

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Josef Stalin
Definition
premier of soviet union
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Totalitarian
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political system where the state recognizes no limits to its authority
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B. Mussonlini
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italian politician who led the national facist party
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Fascism
Definition
radical authoritaian nationalist political ideology
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Nazism
Definition
the practice of the nazi party
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Adolf Hitler
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german politician, leader of nazi party, mean man, causer of the holocaust
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Neutrality Acts
Definition
all nations were to remain at peace in the growing turmoil
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Neville Chamberlain
Definition
prime minister of the untied kingdom
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WInston Churchill
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prime minster for two terms against hitler
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Appeasement
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aoiding war to make concessions to another power
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Nonaggression Pact
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treaty between two or more states to avoid war or conflict
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Blitzkrieg
Definition
high speed force to take down enemy lines involving tanks, artilary, and other weapons
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Charles De Gaulle
Definition
french general during ww2
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Holocaust
Definition
a progammatic system of murder by the nazi party
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Kristallnacht
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night of broken glass civilians ramsacked the towns destroying buildings
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Genocide
Definition
deliberate destruction in a group
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Concentration Camp
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guarded place for prisoners that had been taken captive
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Axis Powers
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great powers that fought allies during ww2
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Lend-Lease Act
Definition
let someone borrow something during war like an allie and exppect it in return but you actually never get it back
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Atlantic Charter
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agreement to be allies but not harm one another after the war
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Allies
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people who don't like each other come together to make an agreement
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Hidek: Tojo
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imperial Japanese military general during WW2
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George Marshall
Definition
organized the victory for Winston Churchill, american army general
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Nisei
Definition
Japanese language
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Office of Price Adminstration
Definition
controlled money and rents after WW2
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War Production Board
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regulate production of things needed during the war
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Rationing
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controlled distribution of scarce things like food, water, shelter, artillery
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Dwight Eisenhower
Definition
34th president, leader of allied forces and commander in Europe
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D-Day
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when our troops landed on the shores of Normandy
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George Patton
Definition
u.s. army officer during WW2
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Harry Tramon
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33rd president of the U.S. came in after Roosevelt died
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Battle of the Bulge
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major German offensive, to split British and american allies
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V.E. Day
Definition
victory in Europe day
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Douglas MacArthur
Definition
american general field marshal of the Philippine army
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Chester Nimitz
Definition
five star admiral of the U.S. Navy cheif of naval forces
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Kamikaze
Definition
suicide attacks by military aviators from Japan
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Manhattan Project
Definition
where they made the atomic bomb and researched and studied the bomb
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Robert Oppenheimer
Definition
father of the atomic bomb created, mastermind
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Hiroshima
Definition
first city to be bombed or destroyed
by a nuclear force by U.S.
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Nagasaki
Definition
last city in the world to be destroyed by a nuclear bomb
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Yalta Conference
Definition
when certain people came together during wartime to discuss Europe's reorganization after the war
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United Nations
Definition
what replaced the league of nations
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GI BIll of Rights
Definition
bill that allowed WW2 veterans to go to college after the war
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JACL
Definition
to let Japanese have rights and protect them from federal and state governments
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Korematsu vs. U.S.
Definition
that an executive order 9066was unconstitutional and violated the 14th amendment
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