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Leader of the communist party after Lenin's death in U.S.S.R., means "man of steel", | Joseph Stalin |
a theory of government in which a single party or leader controls the economic, social, and cultural lives of its people. | Totalitarian |
1919 founded the Fascist party of Italy, followers known as Black shirts, 1922 asked to form a government called himself Il Duce. | Benito Mussolini |
right-wing orgainization that trumpeted nationalism | Fascism |
leader of the Nazi party in Germany, failed artist, wounded and decorated in World War 1, wrote Mein Kampf | Adolf Hitler |
opposed socialism, communism or any other -ism that promoted class interests or workers' rights above German ethnic solidarity | Nazism |
Spanish general, the leader of the Nationalist military rebellion during the Spanish Civil War | Francisco Franco |
acts passed by the U.S. Congress to keep the U.S. isolated from problems in Europe & Asia | Neutrality Acts |
was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. Chamberlain is best known for his appeasement foreign policy. | Neville Chamberlain |
a British Conservative politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War; prime minister 1940-45 | Winston Churchhill |
policy of granting concessions to a potential enemy in the hope that it will maintain peace. | Appeasement |
when two rivals(Germany & Soviet Union) publicly promised not to attack one another. | Nonaggression Pact |
lightning war or sudden attack | Blitzkrieg |
a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II | Charles de Gaulle |
was the mass murder or genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II | Holocaust |
is "the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group" | Genocide |
a part of a city predominantly occupied by a particular ethnic group that may be looked down upon for various reasons, especially because of social or economic issues, or because they have been forced to live there | Ghetto |
refers to a camp in which people are detained or confined, | Concentration Camp |
Germany, Italy, & Japan | Axis Powers |
act authorized Roosevelt to "sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend or otherwise dispose of, to any such government any defense article' whenever he thought it was "necessary in the interests of the defense of the U.S." | Lend-Lease Act |
a document that endorsed national self-determination and an international systems of "general security" | Atlantic Charter |
Russia, Britain, France, U.S. + | Allies |
1941 became Japanese Prime Minister, focused on military expansion | Hideki Tojo |
signed by Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy on Sept. 29, 1938, to settle the crisis over Czechoslovakia, by which the Sudetenland was ceded to Germany | Munich Pact |
the union of Germany and Austria | Anschluss |
Germany, Italy and Japan signed a pact to become allies | Tripartite |
main U.S. Naval base in Pacific, attacked Dec.7,1941 | Pearl Harbor |
purpose was to provide clerical workers, truck drivers, instructors and lab technicians for the U.S. army | Women's Army Corps |
Commander of U.S. forces in Asia | Douglas MacArthur |
battle in early May 1942, stopped Japanese attack on New Guinea | Battle of Coral Sea |
1926, become leader of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), leader of China second Sino-Japanese war | Chiang Kai-shek |
was a Chinese communist revolutionary, political theorist and politician. The architect and founding father of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from its establishment in 1949 | Mao Zedong |