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Vocabulary Flashcards

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Fascism

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A new militant political movement that emphasized loyalty to the country and obedience to it’s leaders.

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Nazism

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German belief system that has it’s own form of Fascism

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Mein Kampf

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“My Struggle” - book written by Hitler

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Appeasement

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Give into an aggressor to keep a temporary peace

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Axis Powers

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Germany, Japan, Italy

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Isolationism

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The art of avoiding alliances

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Third Reich

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The plan for the new German Empire

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Munich Conference

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The agreement that Germany can take the Northwestern border

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Nazi Soviet Nonaggression Pact

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A deal that they would not attack each other

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Blitzkrieg

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German lightening war strategy

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Nagasaki

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First atomic bomb dropped in war

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Hiroshima

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Atomic bomb dropped on August 9, 1945

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Luftwaffe

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German Airforce most powerful

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Pearl Harbor

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attack by the Japanese to take out all the US Naval

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Aryan

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Germanic people that Nazi people considered a “master race”

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Holocaust ( know the three stages )

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Social Isolation
Isolation
Final solution

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Kristallnacht

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Organized violence which encourage emigration

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Ghetto

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Segregated Jewish areas

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Final Solution

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Executing Jews

20
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Genocide

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The systematic killing of an entire group of people

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D-Day

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The day of the beach landing at Normandy

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Kamikaze

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Japanese piolets who made suicidal crashes into enemies

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Manhattan Project

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The code name for the American atomic bomb

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swastika

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Nazi logo

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Enola Gay/Gray

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Bombed Japan

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Fuhrer

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German word for leader

27
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Nuremburg Trials

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An international court that tried and convicted several high ranking officers

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