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| fascism | a political philosophy that calls for the glorification of the nation above the individual, a centralized government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social rgimentation, and the use of force against opposition. |
| appeasement | a policy of giving into the demands of a hostile power in order to avoid conflict and maintain peace. |
| Pearl Harbor | this gets the US into the war. |
| Selective Training and Service Act | Men ages 21-35 had to register and 2 million were selected for military training |
| Communism | totalitarian government in which no opposing parties were allowed to exist |
| Taking blame for WWI | one reason Hitler was mad and could rise up in power |
| Mein Kampf | in this, Hitler proposes his ideas of taking back land where Germans currently live. |
| Third Reich | third German Empire |
| Mussolini | relies on Blackshirts to teroize those who oppose him |
| Japan reasons for the war | US stopped trading oil and planes |
| Munich Pact | In 1938, Englandf allows Germany to take the Sudeten Land |
| Non-aggression | Hitler has this with the Soviet Union and can now invade Poland |
| Invasion of Poland | Great Britain and France declare war on Germany 2 days after this. |
| Axis powers | Italy, Japan, and Germany |
| Allies | US, Great Britian, and France |
| "Blitzkrieg" | Germany uses this; air support |
| December 8, 1941 | FDR declares war on Japan |
| December 7, 1941 | Bombing of Pearl Harbor |
| Lend-Lease Act | FDR provided war supplies to Britain without any payment in return. Authorized the President to aid any nation whose defense he believed was vital to American security. |
| Island Hoping | military strategy of selectively attacking specific enemy-hed island and bypassing others. |
| Rosie the Riveter | Symbol of an American hero |
| Patton | American General who was successful in Africa, swore at soldiers |
| Josef Stalin | leader of the country who fought the Eastern front of WWII |
| General MacArthur | US General who liberated the Philippines and accepted Japan's surrender |
| Harry S. Truman | President who authorized the deployment of the atomic bomb |
| Battle of Bulge | After this, Germany was finally crushed and surrendered |
| Internment Camps | Places for Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor |
| Holocaust | the extermination of 6 million Jews, but also of homosexuals, gypsies, political prisoners, etc. |
| Battle of Stalingard | Soviet fighters took up positions in the rubble and surrounded German troops. Harsh winter helped the trained Soviets. |
| Manchurian Incident | WAhen Japanese troops took matters into their own hands by capturing Manchurian cities. |
| Battle of Britain | Hitler orders massive bombing raids on London and other British cities. |
| D-Day | Under the command of Ike, US and British forces land on the beaches of Normandy. |
| United Nations | Peace keeping organization set up after World War II. It is still around today. |
| Nuremberg trials | Established the important principle that individuals must be responsible for their own actions. |
| Manhattan Project | Development fo the nuclear bomb |
| Hiroshima | First city to be destroyed with an atomic weapon |
| Nagaski | Second city to be destroyed by and atomic weapon |
