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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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1.Of or relating to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state
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B. mussolini
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Italian statesman; prime minister 1922–43; known as Il Duce (‘the leader’). He founded the Italian Fascist Party in 1919, annexed Abyssinia in 1936, and entered World War II on Germany's side in 1940. He was captured and executed by Italian communist partisans a few weeks before the end of the war
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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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Adolf hitler
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He cofounded the National Socialist German Workers’ (Nazi) Party in 1919 and came to prominence through his powers of oratory. He wrote Mein Kampf (1925), an exposition of his political ideas, while in prison. He established the totalitarian Third Reich in 1933. His expansionist foreign policy precipitated World War II, while his fanatical anti-Semitism led to the Holocaust
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nazism
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national socialist german workers
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Neutrality acts
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stay neutral
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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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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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appeacement
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The action or process of appeasing
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nonaggresion pact
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is an international treaty between two or more states agreeing to avoid war or armed conflict between them and resolve their disputes through peaceful negotiations.
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Blitzkrieg
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An intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory
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charles de gaulle
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French general and statesman who became very popular during World War II as the leader of the Free French forces in exile (1890-1970)
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Holocaust
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The mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime during the period 1941–45. More than 6 million European Jews, as well as members of other persecuted groups, such as gypsies and homosexuals, were murdered at concentration camps such as Auschwitz
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Kristallnacht
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The occasion of concerted violence by Nazis throughout Germany and Austria against Jews and their property on the night of November 9–10,
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genocide
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massacre of a certain group or groups
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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. The term is most strongly associated with the several hundred camps established by the Nazis in Germany and occupied Europe in 1933–45, among the most infamous being Dachau, Belsen, and Auschwitz
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Axis powers
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(German: Achsenmächte, Italian: Potenze dell'Asse, Japanese: , Hungarian: Tengelyhatalmak, Romanian: Puterile Axei, Bulgarian: Сили от Оста),
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Lend-lease act
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Lend-Lease (Public Law 77-11) was the name of the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, France and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war material between 1941 and 1945.
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Atlantic charter
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1.A declaration of eight common principles in international relations drawn up by Churchill and Roosevelt in August 1941, which provided the ideological basis for the United Nations organization
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Allies
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US, France, Britan, Russia
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Hideki tojo
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japanese general
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George marshall
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US general and statesman who as Secretary of State organized the European Recovery Program (1880-1959).
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Nisei
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1.A person born in the US or Canada whose parents were immigrants from Japan
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Office of price administation
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The Office of Price Administration (OPA) 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 were originally to control prices (price controls) and rents after the outbreak of World War II
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War production board
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The War Production Board (WPB) 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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1.Allow each person to have only a fixed amount of (a particular commodity)
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Dwight Eisenhower
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Eisenhower: United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany; 34th President of the United States (1890-1961)
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D day
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1.The day (June 6, 1944) in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy
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George patton
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George Smith Patton, Jr. (also George Smith Patton III) (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) 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 controversial outspokenness.
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Harry truman
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Truman: elected vice president in Roosevelt's 4th term; became 33rd President of the United States on Roosevelt's death in 1945 and was elected President in 1948; authorized the use of atomic bombs against Japan (1884-1972)
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Battle of the bulge
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Battle of the Ardennes Bulge: a battle during World War II; in December 1944 von Rundstedt launched a powerful counteroffensive in the forest at Ardennes and caught the Allies by surprise
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VE day
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Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day or VE Day) commemorates May 8, 1945, 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 McArthur
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MacArthur: United States general who served as chief of staff and commanded Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II; he accepted the surrender of Japan (1880-1964)
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Chester nimitz
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Nimitz: United States admiral of the Pacific fleet during World War II who used aircraft carriers to destroy the Japanese navy (1885-1966)
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kamikaze
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A Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target
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Manhatten Project
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making a nuke without anyone knowing
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Robert oppenheimer
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Oppenheimer: United States physicist who directed the project at Los Alamos that developed the first atomic bomb (1904-1967
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Hiroshima
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first bombed city in japan by the US
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Nagasaki
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second bombed city in japan by the US
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Yalta conferance
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1.A meeting between the Allied leaders Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin in February 1945 at Yalta, a Crimean port on the Black Sea. The leaders planned the final stages of World War II and agreed on the subsequent territorial division of Europe
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United nations
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1.An international organization of countries set up in 1945, in succession to the League of Nations, to promote international peace, security, and cooperation
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GI bill of rights
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The G.I. Bill (officially titled Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, P.L. 78-346, 58 Stat. 284m) was an omnibus bill that provided college or vocational education for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s) as well as one year of unemployment compensation.
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JACL
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Founded in 1929, the JACL is the earliest and largest organization in the U.S. to defend the civil rights of Japanese American citizens. Originally focusing on Japanese Americans on the West Coast, the JACL grew to advocate Asian American rights at the national level.
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Korematsu v. US
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Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944) , 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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