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Joseph Stalin |
Leader of the Soviet Union after Lenin died. |
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Totalitarian |
one that maintains complete control over it's citizens |
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Benito Mussolini |
leader of a totalitarian regime in Italy in 1919. |
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Fascism |
a new political movement that consisted of a strong, centralized government headed by a powerful dictator. |
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Adolf Hitler |
Wrote Mein Kampf, leader of Nazi Germany. You already know. |
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Nazism |
Like fascism except based on extreme nationalism. |
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Neutrality Acts |
Acts passed by congress in 1935 and so on to keep the U.S. out of future wars. |
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Neville Chamberlain |
British Prime Minister before Churchill. |
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Winston Churchill |
Leader of GoB, was the political rival of Chamberlain. |
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Appeasement |
giving up principles to pacify an aggressor. |
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Non agression pact |
Pact signed by the Soviet Union and Germany on August 23, 1939 which said that they wouldn't go to war. |
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Blitzkreig |
German military strategy, "lightning war", uses tanks, aircraft, etc. |
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Charles de Gaulle |
French general who fled to England after France's fall to set up a government in exile. |
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Holocaust |
The systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe, half of them were jews. |
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Kristallnacht |
November 9, 1938 "Crystal Night", gangs of Nazi storm trooper attacked jewish homes, business, etc. |
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Genocide |
deliberate killing of an entire people. |
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Concentration Camp |
camps of forced labor that Nazi victims were forced to attend. |
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Axis Powers |
Japan, Germany, and Italy |
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Lend-Lease Act |
Allowed the U.S. to aid nations via supplies "whose defense was vital to the U.S." |
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Atlantic Charter |
Declaration of principles, spelled out the causes for which the war was fought. |
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Allies |
Nations who joined together to fight the Axis Powers. |
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Hideki Tojo |
The new prime minister of Japan at the time, led military. |
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Black Shirts |
Discontended ex-soilders, poses as champions of law and attacked communists, socialists, and radical/progressive groups. |
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Brown shirts |
Members of an early Nazi militia founded by Hitler in Munich in 1921, resembling Mussolini's black shirts. Aided Hitler's rise to power. |
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Paul Von Hindenburg |
German national hero during WW1, was a field marshal and statesman, also was president of the Weimar Republic. |
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Beer Hall Putsch |
the foiled coup attempt on November 8, 1923 by hitler with SA troops in Bavaria at a meeting of Bavarian officials. |
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Mein Kampf |
was the ideological base for the Nazi's racist beliefs, written by Hitler. |
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Bolsheviks |
Members of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, renamed the communist party after their rise to power. |
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NSDAP |
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers Party) |
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Reichstag |
The estates or meeting of the estates. (congress) |
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Weimar Republic |
The german republic that existed from 1919 to Hitler's ascension to power in 1933. |
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Anschluss |
The annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in March 1938. |
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Propaganda |
Information especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. |
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SS |
an elite corps of combat troops formed originally within the Nazi Party as a bodyguard for Hitler and other leaders. |
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Sudetenland |
German name to refer to the northern, southwest, and western areas of Czechoslovakia which was inhabited primarily by German speakers. |
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Hitler Youth |
a nazi youth auxilry group established in 1926. It was an extension of Hitler's belief that the future of Nazi germany was to it's children. |
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Aryan Race |
the race of people who were descendants of the prehistoric people who spoke indo-european. |
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Joseph Goebblels |
german propaganda minister in Nazi germany who persecuted the Jews. |
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Herman Goring (Umlaut over O) |
German politician in Nazi germany who founded the Gestapo and mobilized germany for war |
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Lebensraum |
the territory that a state/nation believes is needed for its natural development. |
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Anti-semitism |
hostility to or prejudice against Jews |
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Horst Wessel Lied |
The anthem of the Nazi party |