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Great Depression
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9th Grade
12/12/2010

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League of Nations
Definition
US fails to join and weakens organization
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French Demands
Definition
GErman pay 33 bil.; Treaty of Versailles; Germany cant pay
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Inflation
Definition
rise in prices
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Dawes Plan
Definition
Coordination of Germany's payment plan
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Treaty OF Locarno
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B/T Germany and France guaranteeing new western brders w France; Followed by the Kellog-Briand Act
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Depression
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a period of low economic activity and rising unemployment
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Causes of GD
Definition
1.series of downturns in nations economy
2.US stock market crash
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Response to Depression
Definition
increased gvnmt activity in economy ; communism rose and democracy was threatened
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New Deal
Definition
FDR policy of active gvmt intervention in economy; increased program of public works
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Rise of Dictators
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1939: Britain and France only remained dem. ; conquers minds and hearts and achieved through propaganda
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Fascism
Definition
political philosophy that glorifies the state above the individual by emphasizing need for strong central gvmt led by a dictator
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Benito Mussolini
Definition
established 1st Euro fascist group; secret police, OVRA; outlawed other political parties; Ruled as II DUce
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SOviet Union - Lenin
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NEP replaced war communism in Russia; Peasants could do everything but own heavy machinery and such. only gvmt could
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Rise of Stalin
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comes to power after Lenin death; Gains all control of communist party
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The Great Purge
Definition
mil. arrested , exiled , executed
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Five-Year-Plan
Definition
set of economic goals
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Hitler
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born in Austria 4/20/1889; homeless after mother's death
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1921
Definition
hitler is leader of Nazi Party;
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Hitler in WWI
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enlisted in army after Ferdinand assassination; bicycle messenger; promoted to Corporal and given iron cross
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1929
Definition
Nazi Party becomes largest party in German Parliament
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1933
Definition
Hitler becomes Chancellor; passed enabling act
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1934
Definition
Hitler Bcomes Fuhrer
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schutzstaffeln
Definition
Guard squadron or SS
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Hitler's Rule
Definition
Economic, Organizations,Women, Anti-Semitic Policies
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Kristallnacht
Definition
"Night of Shattered Glass"
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FDR
Definition
Born 1/30/1882; married Eleanor
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1911/1913
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FDR becomes NY state senator/ apptd ass. secretary of Navy by Pres. Wilson
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New Deal
Definition
3 R's -Relief, Recovery, Reform, Fireside chats
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Churchill
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born into aristocratic family in 1874;Clementine- married 1908 w 5 kids
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WWII
Definition
1939-1945
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March 1935
Definition
Hitler tries to revise Treaty of Versailles; begins military draft; announces plans for creating air force
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Alliances of 1936
Definition
10/36, hitler and mussolini form alliance
11/36
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blitzkreig
Definition
lightening war
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Luftwaffe
Definition
German airforce
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Operation Barrabosa
Definition
June 22, 1941; 3,000,000 German soldiers; 3,400 tanks
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US Neutrality
Definition
1934,1935,1937
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US Lend-Lease Act
Definition
1941
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Atlantic Charter
Definition
FDR and Churchill sign Treaty of Friendship in August 1941; solidifies alliances
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The 'Big Three'
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Churchill, FDR, Stalin
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WWII Battles
Definition
1941-1945
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Battle of Stalingrad
Definition
Winter of 1942-1943 (germans surrender here; major industrial center on the Volga; German supply lines cutoff)
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North Africa Campaign
Definition
Battle of El Alamein, 1942
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"Desert Fox"
Definition
Germany's General Rommel
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"Monty"
Definition
Britain's General Montgomery
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El Alamein (Summer 1942)
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British stop German troops; Brits and US attack desert and and Force Germany nad Italy to surrender
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Italian campaign
Definition
[Operation Torch] Europeans "Soft Underbelly"
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Italian Campaign
Definition
allies assault weakest axis-North Africa- nov. 1942-May 1943; Patton leads American troops ; Germs trapped in Tunsinia - surrender over 275,000 troops
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Battle For Sicily, June 1943
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Muss. removed from office; Liberated by Germans; Heavy casualties
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Allies Liberate Rome
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June 5, 1944
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D-DAY June 6,1944
Definition
Planning invasion of France from Great Britain across the English Channel; Historys greatest navel victory;heavy German Resistance
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Gen. Eisenhower gives the orders for D-DAY
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[Operation Overlaod]
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Normandy Landing
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June 6, 1944
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Liberation of Paris
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August 25, 1944
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Hitler's Last Stand
Definition
battle of Bulge; Hitler's last attempt to split allies; battle=epic fail;
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Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Last Offensive
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Dec. 16, 1944-Jan. 28,1945
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Yalta:
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Feb.1945
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Mussolini and his Mistress
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Hung in Milan, 1945
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The Pacific Battle
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Island Hopping
Definition
[doin damage to one island then attacking another til all were conquered]
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Battle of Midway
Definition
1942 (we were gettin them Japs, they didnt know what to do! {aint got nothin on us!})
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Kamikazi Planes
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Suicide bombers
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Potsdam Conference: July, 1945
Definition
Stalin only left in Big Three; US has A-Bomb
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The Manhattan Project
Definition
A-Bomb creators
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Hiroshima - August 6, 1945
Definition
70,000 killed immediately; 48,000 Buildings destroyed; 100,000s died of radiation poisoning and/or cancer
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Nagasaki-August 9, 1945
Definition
40,000 killed immediately; 48,000 buildings destroyed; 100,000s died of radiation poisoning and/or cancer
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Hitler commits suicide
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April 30, 1945
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V-E Day
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May 8, 1945
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V-J Day
Definition
Septemer 2, 1945
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Holocaust
Definition
Himmler: Leader of SS; Goal: Remove Jews and only have Germans
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Genocide
Definition
Physical extermination of Jewish People; The Final Solution; unsanitary housing; Starvation
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Ghettos
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Warsaw
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Death Camps
Definition
Jews packed in freight trains & shipped to Poland; 30% went to Labor camps, all else went to gas chambers
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Extermination Centers
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Auschwitz
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Children in War
Definition
Jewish women and children were selected first for Gas Chambers; 1.2 mil. jew children died in Holocaust
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