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Totalitarianism

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Political system where state holds all authority
Seeks to control public and private life wherever possible
Control media

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D-Day

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June 6, 1944

Soldiers brought to beaches on France’s Normandy coast

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Effects of treaty of Versailles

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German resentment

Hitler rise to power

WW2

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Operation overlord

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Invasion of northwest France 
Largest amphibious invasion in history 
V-E Day day of victory in Europe
Germany surrendered unconditionally 
Eisenhower
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Invasion of Poland

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Began WW2

Hitler claimed Danzig for Germany

Great Britain and France declared war on Germany following invasion

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Failure of operation Barbarossa

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June 22, 1942 Germany invaded Soviet Union with code name operation Barbarossa
Allies helped Soviet Union
SU user scorched earth tactics and did not surrender
As Russian winter came Hitler decided to stay
Beginning of end for Germany
Guerilla warfare

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Japanese reasons for pearl harbor

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U.S. Placed embargo on sale of oil and scrap iron to Japan
U.S. Along with Britain and Netherlands froze Japanese assets
Japan wanted oil and to prepare for war

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Causes of Japanese imperialism

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World wide depression
Gain natural resources to aid struggling economy
Would lead to policy of Japanese expansion (foreign policy)
Be a cause of Pearl Harbor attack

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Reasons for Munich conference

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Hitler annexed Austria and wanted to take the Sudetenland

Desire to settle Czech problem peaceably and avoid war

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Nuremberg laws

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Designers to separate aryans and from non-Aryans and define rights of citizens of nazi Germany

Established legal means for assigning Jews inferior status in German society

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Long march

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Saved Mao Zedong and communist party from attacks by the guomingdang
Made survival of Chinese communist party possible
Utilized guerrilla tactics
Recruit support

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Evacuation at dunkirk

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400,000 allied troops trapped on beaches of Dunkirk with advancing German army
900 ships embarked on rescue mission and brought 338,000 trapped soldiers back to Britain

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Mohandas Gandhi

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Gandhi returned to India from South Africa during war time
Passive resistance struggle in South Africa
Organized satyagraha sabra
Called for boycotts

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Problems facing Britain post WW1

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Economic difficulties 
Debtor nation
Damaged trade
High unemployment and labor unrest
British government and Irish nationalists struggled over issue of home rule for Ireland 
Run down factories
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Chinese communist revolution (may be wrong)

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Communists used war as opportunity to expand political and military influence in China
Communists won upper hand in civil war, by 1949 drove nationalists from power
Communists led by Mao Zedong established people’s republic of China

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Modernizing Persia

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Keza khan assumed the throne around 1925 and embarked on massive reform program
Strengthened army, broke power of contentious tribes, built roads and hospitals, established university, gave women more rights
Introduced economic development plan

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Meiji restoration

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Japan under Meiji emperor began to industrialize
Meiji restoration- social, political, and economic revolution
No social classes
Centralized government, constitution, industrial economy
Emperor restored

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Axis powers

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Hitler and Mussolini formed military alliance called Rome-Berlin Axis
Term axis powers originated by Mussolini claiming it would be the axis on which the world would turn

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Appeasement

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Policy attempting to preserve peace by yielding to demands of aggressor
Chamberlain and daladier accepted hitlers demand to take the Sudetenland

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Nonaggression pact

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Soviet and Germany pact
Contained secret agreement of plan to divide Eastern Europe
Shocked world

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Battle of Britain

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Period of Germany’s air raids on Britain
British cities blasted with explosives and firebombs
British had defense by Royal Air Force
London

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Fascism

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Relies on dictatorial rule by a totalitarian regime.

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Cause for rise of dictatorship

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Heavy loss of life
Crushing debt
High unemployment
Runaway inflation

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Fascist states maintaining contr

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Strong militaries
Propaganda
Force
Censorship

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Benito Mussolini

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Il Duce
Took power after the March in Rome coup d’état in 1922
Once in power he destroyed democracy set up a dictatorship built up a military and established corporations
Secret police
Corporatism

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Hitler

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Made himself der fuhrer
In prison he laid out his vision in mein kampf
In 1936, Hitler and Mussolini signed Rome Berlin axis
Stopped paying reparations
Nazi party

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Latin America between the wars

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Encouraged immigration
Labor unions
Socialism
Job growth 
Large population
Strikes
Professionalized military
Private industries 
Rise of dictators 
Overthrown governments 
Coup detats 
Good neighbor policy
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Causes of ww2

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Depression
Resentment from treaty of Versailles
Failure of appeasement 
Failure of League of Nations 
Military alliance
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Neutrality acts

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Series of acts passes to limit US involvement in possible future wars

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Lend lease

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Would repeal neutrality acts
Fireside chats on national security
Arsenal of democracy
Written by Franklin d Roosevelt

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American use of atomic bomb

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Code name: Manhattan project
Involved 100,000 Americans at numerous locations
Most not aware of final product because of secrecy
Tested in desert near Alamogordo
Ebola gay dropped little boy in Hiroshima on August 7, 1945 with 100,000 deaths
Fat man dropped on Nagasaki on August 9 with 70,000 deaths
Harry Truman

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(Soviet Union under Stalin) education

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Bad conditions
Teachers promote students despite bad grades
School designed to adapt people to what the government wants

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(Soviet Union under Stalin) agrarian success

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Opposing collectivization gets gets you thrown in jail

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(Soviet Union under Stalin) communist party

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Party officials and guests were given opportunities while rest of country starves
Stalin executed 25% of communist party

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(Soviet Union under Stalin) health issues

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Quality of hospitals was unsanitary

Not enough doctors

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(Soviet Union under Stalin) religion

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Stalin wanted to wipe out religion

Thought religion to be a threat

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(Soviet Union under Stalin) industrialization

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Factory owners simplify products to gain money

Communist meeting to lower production costs

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(Soviet Union under Stalin) minority rights

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Russian ethnic group dominated others

Stalin ensured domination of Russian culture

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(Soviet Union under Stalin) art

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Killed those who wrote against him

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(Soviet Union under Stalin) housing

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Housing shortage

Ethnics lived in mud huts

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(Soviet Union under Stalin) women issues

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Women’s rights were taken away

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(Soviet Union under Stalin) centralized economy

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State controlled economy (nationalized)
Government five year plans
First (1929) set production quotas
Construction of massive industrial centers

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(Soviet Union under Stalin) the socialist ideal

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Soviet citizens worked not for individual gain, but for overall good of working class (principle of communist party)

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(Soviet Union under Stalin) agricultural production

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Increase production to feed workers in growing industrial centers
Grain traded for tools and money
Collectivized state-owned farms (farms being nationalized)
Five-year quota plans

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(Soviet Union under Stalin) stalins plan to industrialize

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Catch up to west(Europe)
Transform from agriculture to industrial power
Quickly (a lot of things were not done efficiently)
Build industries to support military buildup
They were about 50 years behind in industrialization

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Final solution

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(1942-1945)

Mass killings of Jews and mass graves

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Atlantic charter

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Franklin d Roosevelt and Winston churchill’s war aims which were:
Seek no territorial gains
No territorial change unless population there wands it
People choosing government (self determination)
Free trade for all
Improve economic situation for all
Assurance of safety for all
Open seas and oceans
Arms limitations and abandonment of force

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Communism

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a system where all property is public and people work and are given things by the government according to their needs

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Nazi party

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German workers party
Extremely nationalistic
Violently anti communist
Attracted support of wealthy business leaders and landowners in Germany

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