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Key Terms Flashcards

1
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Dictator

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A ruler with total power over a country

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He governed the Soviet Union

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Stalin

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3
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Leader of the national fascist party

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Mussolini

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4
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Leader of nazi party

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Hitler

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5
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A country run by a dictator

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Fascist

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6
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A member of the national socialist German workers party

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Nazi

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The granting of concessions in order to maintain peace

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Appeasement

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8
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Two country’s agree to take no military action against Eachother

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Non aggression pact

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The doctrine that a nation should stay out if disputes and affairs of other nations

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Isolationism

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10
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Discrimination against Jews

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Anti Semitism

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11
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Italy, Germany, Japan

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Axis powers

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12
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Powerful Canadian cabinet minister

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Cd Howe

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13
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War measures act

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Security and order to Canadian government

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14
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Total war

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No rules on warfare

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15
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Aircrew training program

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BCATP

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16
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Military tactic through mobile forces

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Blitzkrieg

17
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Germans bombed port of Dunkirk because allied forces were surrounded there

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Dunkirk

18
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Lustwaffe

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Aerial warfare

19
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The blitz

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Heavy air raids on Britain

20
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Operation barber pass

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The plan to invade ussr

21
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Dieppe rald

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Allied attack on German occupied port of dieppe

22
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D-day

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Allied landings on the French Normandy coast

23
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One of the five beaches of allied invasion of German occupied France in Normandy land

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Juno beach

24
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Manhattan project

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Research undertaking that produces nuclear weapons

25
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Final solution

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Getting rid of all the Jews

26
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NRMA

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nation resources mobilization act

Gave the gov special emergency powers

27
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Plebiscite

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A huge vote

28
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Phoney war

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Eight month period where nothing happened

29
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Operation sea lion

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Attack on the United Kingdom

30
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Ve day.

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May 8

31
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VJ Day

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August 15

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