| A | B |
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| Adolph Hitler | Leader of Fascist Germany during WWII and was responsible for ordering the execution of Jews. |
| Benito Mussolini | Leader of Fascist Italy during WWII and was part of the Axis of Powers |
| appeasement | Instituted in the hope of avoiding war, name given to Britain's policy in the 1930s of allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked. |
| Allied Powers (Allies) | Powers of World War II were England (Great Britain, the United Kingdom), the United States of America, the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R., Russia), and France. |
| Axis Powers | (Germany, Italy, and Japan) in World War II. |
| League of Nations | Collection of Nations to check aggression |
| Sudentland | Section of Czechoslovakia that Hitler wanted |
| Austria | Annexed by Germany in 1938 (Hitler's Homeland) |
| Stalin | Leader of the Soviet Union |
| Poland | First nation attacked by Germany with their Blitzkrieg warfare |
| Churchill | British Prime Minister for the largest and last portion of the war |
| Blitzkrieg | Lightning warfare method used by Germany |
| Nazi's | Largest political party in Germany headed by Hitler |
| Public Works | Work programs used by the US, Germany, and Italy among others to overcome the economic downturn |
| Chinese Manchuria | Part of China rich in resources that Japan badly wanted and attacked to get |
| Fascist Political Party | Party ruled by Mussolini in Italy |
| Re-create Roman Empire | Mussolini's goal with his military conquests in Italy |
| Francisco Franco | Won power in Spain by overthrowing a democratically elected party |
| Abyssinia | African nation attacked by Italy (Modern Day Ethiopia) |
| Treaty of Versailles | Signed to end WWI, designed to keep Germany from rebuilding a strong military |
| Kaiser Wilhelm | German (emperor) and king of Prussia from 1888 to 1918, was one of the most recognizable public figures of World War I (1914-18) |
| Hindus | Group that made up the majority of the Indian National Congress |
| Gandhi | Leader of the non-violent protesters in India |
| For India's help in which war, the British promised reforms would take place. | WWI |
| Country that remained a part of the Ottoman Empire by 1918 | Turkey |
| Saudi Arabia | Country was ruled by the laws of Islam. |
| Jews made up 25% of the population in this country. | Palestine |
| All power to the Shah. | Iran |
| Caudillos | Military leaders took control over many Latin American countries |
| Rebelled in Latin America along with workers to protest unfair working conditions | Peasants |
| U.S. Good Neighbor Policy | Latin Americans carried a great deal of resentment towards the U.S. because of |
| Chiang Kai-shek | Chinese leader almost wiped out the Chinese Communist Party, feared a revolution like the one in the Soviet Union, and received money and weapons from the U.S. to fight the Japanese. |
| Sun Yat-sen | Overthrow the last Chinese Emperor. |
| Mao Tse-tung | Developed his own form of communism, based his revolution on the support of the peasants, and fought the Japanese in every way that he could |
| The official start date of WWII happened on September 1st, 1939 | Germany invades Poland |
| Replaced that of the Kaiser in Germany | Democratic |
| Neremburg Laws | Forbid them of marrying Germans and stripped them of citizenship |
| Japan interested in Chinese Manchuria | Japanese population was exploding, sea-locked and lacked natural resources, ability to keep building their military |
| Distractions to the U.S. encouraged Japan to keep building its' military. | The Jazz era, economic booms and busts (Great Depression), relative peace and a reduction of military and naval capacity |
| League of Nations response to Japanese aggression | They did nothing more than condemning Japan |
| United States wanted to impose their own blockade of the Japanese naval forces, but were ultimately stopped by | Great Britain |
| Japan signs a treaty with _______ in case the Soviet Union wanted to stop their invasion of China | Germany |
