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11/02/2011

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Josef Stalin
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was a Soviet politician and head of state who served as the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953.
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Totalitarian
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is a political system where the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible.
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B. Mussolini
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was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism.
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Fascism
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is a radical authoritarian nationalist political ideology.
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Adolf Hitler
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was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), commonly referred to as the Nazi Party).
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Nazism
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was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany
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Neutrality Acts
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outlaws military operations against nations with which the U.S. is at peace; still in force in amended form
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Neville Chamberlain
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was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940.
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Winston Churchill
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was a British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War.
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Appeasement
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is commonly understood to refer to a diplomatic policy aimed at avoiding war by making concessions to another power
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Nonaggression Pact
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is an international treaty between two or more states/countries agreeing to avoid war or armed conflict between them and resolve their disputes through peaceful negotiations.
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Blitzkreig
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describing all-mechanized force concentration of tanks, infantry, artillery and air power, concentrating overwhelming force at high speed to break through enemy lines, and, once the latter is broken, proceeding without regard to its flank
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Charles De Gaulle
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was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II.
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Holocaust
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was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, throughout Nazi-occupied territory.
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Kristallnacht
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was a pogrom or series of attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria on November 9–10, 1938
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Genocide
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defined as "the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group"
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Concentration Camp
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a guarded compound for the detention or imprisonment of aliens, members of ethnic minorities, political opponents, etc
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Axis Powers
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an alignment of great powers during the mid-20th century that fought World War II against the Allies. It began in 1936 with treaties of friendship between Germany and Italy and between Germany and Japan.
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Lend-Lease Act
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was the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945.
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Atlantic Charter
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was a pivotal policy statement first issued in August 1941 that early in World War II defined the Allied goals for the post-war world.
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Allies
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people, groups, or nations that have joined together in an association for mutual benefit or to achieve some common purpose, whether or not explicit agreement has been worked out between them.
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Hideki Tojo
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was a Japanese general of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), the leader of the Taisei Yokusankai, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II, from 17 October 1941 to 22 July 1944. As Prime Minister, he was directly responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor, which led to the war between Japan and the United States
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George Marshall
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was an American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense.
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Nisei
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is a Japanese language term used in countries in North America, South America and Australia to specify the children born to Japanese people in the new country
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Office of Price Administration
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was established within the Office for Emergency Management of the United States government by Executive Order 8875 on August 28, 1941. The functions of the OPA was originally to control money (price controls) and rents after the outbreak of World War II.
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War Production Board
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was established as a government agency on January 16, 1942 by executive order of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Rationing
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is the controlled distribution of scarce resources, goods, or services. Rationing controls the size of the ration, one's allotted portion of the resources being distributed on a particular day or at a particular time.
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Dwight Eisenhower
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was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army.
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D-Day
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is a term often used in military parlance to denote the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated
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George Patton
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was a United States Army officer best known for his leadership while commanding corps and armies as a general during World War II. He was also well known for his eccentricity and controversial outspokenness.
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Harry Truman
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was the 33rd President of the United States
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Battle of the Bulge
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was a major German offensive
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V.E. Day
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the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich
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Douglas MacArthur
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was an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army.
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Chester Nimitz
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was a five-star admiral in the United States Navy.
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Kamikaze
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were suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, designed to destroy as many warships as possible.
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Manhattan Project
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was a research and development program, led by the United States with participation from the United Kingdom and Canada, that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II
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Robert Oppenheimer
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was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Hiroshima
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It became best known as the first city in history to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces
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Nagasaki
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is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan. Nagasaki was founded by the Portuguese in the second half of the 16th century on the site of a small fishing village, formerly part of Nishisonogi District.
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Yalta Conference
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was the wartime meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. The conference convened in the Livadia Palace near Yalta, in the Crimea.
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United Nation
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is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace.
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GI Bill of Rights
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was an omnibus bill that provided college or vocational education for returning World War II veterans
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JACL
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was formed in 1929 to protect the rights of Japanese Americans from the state and federal governments. It fought for civil rights for Japanese Americans, assisted those in internment camps during World War II, and led a successful campaign for redress for internment from the U.S. Congress.
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Korematsu vs. US
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was a landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II.
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