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| fascism | system of government that has a rigid one-party dictatorship, characterized by strong nationalism, racism, and militarism. First instituted in Italy in 1922. |
| Nazism | the body of political and economic doctrines held and put into effect by the Nazis in Germany from 1933 to 1945 including the totalitarian principle of government, predominance of especially Germanic groups assumed to be racially superior, and supremacy of the führer. |
| totalitarianism | system of government under a dictator in which one political party or group maintains complete control |
| Treaty of Versailles | Treaty that ended WWI (signed on June 28. 1919). Germany was required to pay reparations (war damages). |
| appeasement | the policy of giving into the demands of a belligerent leader in order to avoid war to keep the peace |
| Munich Conference | Pact signed by France and Great Britain (1938) that allowed Nazi Germany to take control of the Czech Sudetenland. |
| Axis power aggression | Japan invades Manchuria in 1931 |
| Non-Aggression Pact | German and the Soviet Union agree not to attack each other in 1939 if war broke out. |
| Neutrality Acts | Congress passed several acts forbidding the sale or shipment of arms to nations involved in war. |
| U.S. isolationism | Americans were disillusioned by the results of World War I. They thought the war had accomplished nothing and that millions had died in vain. They were determined to keep their country out of any future European wars. |
| “Four Freedoms” speech | Franklin Roosevelt stated that the United States was fighting for the universal freedoms that all people possessed in his 1941 State of the Union address. (the freedom of speech, the freedom of worship, the freedom from want, and the freedom from fear) |
| Lend-Lease Act | March 1941, act that allowed the U.S. to provide military aid to foreign nations that were vital to the defense of the U.S. |
| Pearl Harbor | December 7, 1941), surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II. |
