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Winston
Churchill
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Franklin
Roosevelt
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Charles
de Gaulle
WWII
Road to
War
Holocaust
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Nazi
Germany
Lenin
Stalin
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In this 1938 event, the
Nazis attacked Jewish
synagogues and
businesses and beat up
and arrested many Jews.
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Kristallnacht (“Night of
Broken Glass”)
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This 1934 event resulted
in Hitler’s destruction of
the S.A. (at the request of
the German military).
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“Night of Long
Knives”
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This idea from Mein Kampf
called for Germany to
conquer lands in eastern
Europe to expand
Germany’s empire.
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“lebensraum”
(“living space”)
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These laws gave Hitler
dictatorial power in
Germany beginning in
1934.
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Enabling Acts
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These laws, beginning in
1935, stripped Jews of
their citizenship and
severely discriminated
against all Jewish people.
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Nuremburg Laws
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Lenin reluctantly
allowed some
capitalistic measures in
the early 1920s when he
instituted this program.
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NEP (New
Economic Policy)
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During the Russian Civil
War, this became the first
type of communism
practiced in the Soviet
Union between 1918 and
1920.
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war communism
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Lenin oppressed his
opponents through
the use of this secret
police organization.
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Cheka
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This leader of the Red
Army had more
philosophically in
common with Lenin
than did Stalin.
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Leon Trotsky
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This 20th-century political
philosophy claims a
communist society must first
be controlled by a
dictatorship of a small group
of professional revolutionary
elites.
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MarxistLeninism
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In order to catch up to
the West industrially,
Stalin instituted the
first of these in 1928.
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Five-Year Plans
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This was Stalin’s
program to communize
the countryside and
increase agricultural
productivity.
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collectivization
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Stalin staged these
events in the 1930s to
rid his government of
Old Bolsheviks.
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show trials or
purges
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Millions of Soviet
citizens died in these
Soviet camps.
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gulags
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Unlike Trotsky who
believed in an immediate
international communist
revolution, Stalin believed
in this policy by the mid1920s.
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“Socialism in
One Country”
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This 1942-43 battle
was the turning point
of the war in Eastern
Europe.
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Stalingrad
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This June, 1944 battle
was the turning point
of the war in western
Europe.
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D-Day (invasion of
Normandy)
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This 1945 war-time
conference stated that
Germany would be
divided into four zones
and that a United Nations
would be created.
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Yalta Conference
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This August, 1939
agreement opened the way
for Germany’s invasion of
Poland and the division of
that country with the USSR.
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German-Soviet
Non-Aggression
Pact?
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This 1938 conference
represented the height of
appeasement and gave
part of Czechoslovakia to
Germany.
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Munich
Conference
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This economic catastrophe
of the late 20s and early
30s became a major cause
for the rise of fascism in
Germany and Japan.
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Great
Depression
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This international
organization failed in its
mission of collective
security to prevent
another World War.
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League of
Nations
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Germany reoccupied this
German region in 1936 in
direct violation of the
Versailles Treaty.
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Rhineland
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This German term refers
to Germany’s
annexation of Austria in
1938.
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Anschluss
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In 1939, Hitler demanded
that this city in the Polish
Corridor become a “free
city” with clear access to
Germany via rail.
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Danzig
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This Nazi death camp in
Poland is the most
notorious as nearly one
million Jews died there.
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Auschwitz
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Prior to the construction
of death camps, Jews
were herded into these
sealed districts in Polish
cities.
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What are
ghettos?
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This 1941 meeting
resulted in the “Final
Solution” to the Jewish
question.
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Wannsee
Conference
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This Nazi organization
headed by Heinrich
Himmler oversaw the
Holocaust.
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SS
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In addition to six million
others who died in the
Holocaust, this percentage
of European Jews perished
in the Holocaust.
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two-thirds
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The Third
Il Duce
Reich
Soviet
Union
World
War II:
Reloaded
Pacific
War
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This group of paramilitary thugs provided
the muscle for
Mussolini’s rise to
power.
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Black Shirts
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In 1935, Mussolini
ordered the invasion of
this African nation as
payback for a pre-WWI
defeat.
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Ethiopia
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This 1922 event
resulted in Mussolini
taking power in the
Kingdom of Italy.
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March on Rome
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In this 1929 deal, Mussolini
gave the Vatican
sovereignty while the pope
agreed to stay largely out of
Italy’s political matters.
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Lateran Pact
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Mussolini organized this
type of fascist state, where
various economic interests
in the country function
collectively for the benefit
of the state.
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corporate state
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Hitler believed that this
race was superior to all
others.
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Aryan
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This 1933 event in
Germany gave Hitler an
excuse to destroy the
communist party and
arrest its leaders.
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Reichstag fire
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This member of Hitler’s
inner circle was the Nazi
propaganda minister who
was determined to make
the Führer look like a
“god.”
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Joseph Goebbels
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This member of Hitler’s
inner circle eventually
became the leader of the
German Luftwaffe (air
force).
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Hermann Göring
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This filmmaker contributed
to the larger-than-life
image of Hitler through
her film Triumph of the
Will.
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Leni Riefenstahl
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These relatively wealthy
peasants became targets
of Stalin’s wrath as they
resisted collectivization.
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Kulaks
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This city became the
new capital of Russia
after the Russian
Revolution.
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Moscow
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This phrase represents
Stalin’s belief in brutal topdown rule during the FiveYear Plans.
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“Revolution from
Above”
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This novel by George
Orwell satirized the
Russian Revolution and
Stalinist rule.
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Animal Farm
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Stalin conquered these
three Baltic states
shortly after the
beginning of World War
II.
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Estonia,
Latvia,
Lithuania
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This technological
innovation enabled the
Royal Air Force’s victory
over the Luftwaffe during
the Battle of Britain.
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radar
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This new type of German
warfare in WWII allowed it
to defeat its enemies
quickly.
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blitzkrieg
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The Allies founded this
international organization
in 1945 in the hopes of
promoting peace after
World War II.
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United Nations
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Marshal Henri-Philippe
Pétain headed this new
puppet state in the German
empire beginning in 1940.
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Vichy France
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This 1941 document
proclaimed the Allies would
not fight for territorial
conquest but rather to
promote peace through a new
international organization.
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Atlantic Charter
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The United States entered
World War II when Japan
attacked this target.
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Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii
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On August 6, 1945, the
United States dropped the
first atomic bomb on this
Japanese city.
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Hiroshima
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This 1942 battle was the
turning point of the war in
the Pacific.
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Midway
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This American strategy in
the Pacific war saw U.S.
forces conquer strategic
islands northwards
toward Japan.
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Island Hopping
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This July 1945 wartime
conference of the “Big Three”
established that Germany
would be de-Nazified while it
demanded unconditional
surrender from Japan.
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Potsdam
Conference
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This was the world’s first
freeway system, built in
Germany during Hitler’s
rule in the 1930s.
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Autobahn
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This fascist rebel took
control of Spain in the
mid-1930s with the
military aid of Nazi
Germany and Fascist Italy.
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Francisco
Franco
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This general became the
leader of the “Free
French” after France was
defeated in June, 1940.
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Charles de Gaulle
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This 1928 peace
agreement proclaimed
“war is illegal,” thus giving
Europeans a false sense of
security.
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Kellogg-Briand
Pact
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This 1933 economic
summit ended
unsuccessfully when the
U.S. undermined it. Hitler
was very encouraged!
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London Economic
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This 1940 pact created a
military alliance between
Germany, Italy, and Japan:
they became known as the
“Axis Powers”
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