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| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy and Japan form a mutual defense treaty. |
| Lend-Lease Act | The president would lend or lease arms and other supples to "any country whose defense was vital to the United States." |
| Atlantic Charter | Joint declaration of war aims between the United States and Great Britian. |
| Allies | Those nations that fought the Axis Powers headed by the united States and Great Britian. |
| Hideki Tojo | Chief of staff of Japan's Kwantung army who launched the invasion of China. |
| Jospeh Stalin | He took control of the Soviet Union after the death of V. I. Lenin. |
| totalitarianism | Government that tried to exert complete control over its citizens. |
| Benito Mussolini | He established a totalitarian regime in Italy and set up the Fascist Party. |
| fascism | Stressed nationalism and placed the interests of the state above thosee of individuals. |
| Adolf Hitler | Leader of the Nazi party in Germany. |
| Nazism | German brand of Fascism based on exterme nationalism. |
| Fransico Franco | Spanish general who rebelled against the Spanish republic and established a fascist regime. |
| Neutrality Acts | They outlawed arm sales and loans to nations at war and banned arms sales and loans to nations engaged in civil wars. |
| Neville Chamberlin | British Prime Minister who signed the Munich Agreement to try to avoid war. |
| Winston Churchill | Chamberlin's political rival who believed that Chamberlin was following a policy of appeasement. |
| appeasement | Giving up principles to pacify n agressor. |
| nonagression pact | Germany and Russia committed never to attack each other. |
| blitzkrieg | Germany's strategy of lightning war using fast tanks and more powerful aircraft. |
| Charles de Galle | French general who fled to England after the fall of France and set up a government-in-exile. |
| Holocaust | The systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe, a majority being Jews. |
| Kristallnacht | November 9-10 1938 The "Night of Broken Glass" when Naze storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany. |
| genocide | The deliberate and systematic killing of an entire population. |
| ghetto | Dismal, overcrowded sections of cities where Jewish people were forced to live by the German government. |
| concentration camp | Labor camps, whee Jews were forced to work at often until death. |
