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| Joseph Stalin | A Russian leader who strived to form a model Communist State in the Soviet Union, and turn the Soviet Union into a truly socialist country in doing so he stamped out private enterprise, and brought great suffering to his people by establishing a totalitarian goverment. |
| Totalitarian | Characteristic of a politcal system in which the government exercises complete control over its citizens' lives. |
| Benito Mussolini | An Italian fascist dictator, responisble for forming the fascist party, and making Italy a totalitarian state. |
| Facisim | A political philosophy that advocates a strong, centralized, nationalistic goverment headed by a powerful dictator. |
| Adolf Hitler | German dictator, leader of the National Socialist German Worker's Party (Nazi Party), who dreamed of creating a great german empire and furthering the Aryan race by eliminating all those he viewed as sub-human. |
| Nazism | The political philosophy based on extreme nationalism, racism, and militaristic expansionism--the Adolf Hitler put into practice in Germany from 1933 to 1945. |
| Neutrality Acts | A series of laws enacted in 1935 and 1936 to prevent U.S. arms sales and loans to nations at war. |
| Holocaust | The systematic murder of 11 millions Jews and other people by the Nazis before and during World War II. |
| Kristallnacht | A name given to the night of November 9, 1938, when gangs of Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues in Germany. |
| Genocide | The deliberate and systematic extermination of a particular racial, national, or religious group. |
| Concentration Camp | A prison camp operated by Nazi Germany in which Jews and other groups considered to be enemies of Adolf Hitler were starved while doing slave labor or were murdered. |
