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How are the dictators able to seize power

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New democratic government that emerged in Europe after the war floundered. Without the democratic tradition people turned to authoritarian leaders to solve the economic and social problems

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Treaty of Versailles caused

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Anger and resentment. Germans saw nothing fair in a treaty that blamed them for starting the war

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Who was Joseph Stalin

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A dictator that took over Russia after Lenin died in 1924

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What did Stalin do to create a model communist state

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He made both agricultural and industrial growth the prime economic goals of the Soviet Union. He abolished all privately owned farms and replace them with collectives which were large government owned farms, each worked by hundreds of families

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Who created the five-year plans

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Joseph Stalin

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Was the five-year plan

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I plan to direct industrialization in the Soviet union we are all economic activity was placed under state management

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What is a totalitarian

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Individuals have no rights, and the government suppresses all opposition

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Was Benito Mussolini

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The dictator who was astonishing a totalitarian regime in Italy, where unemployment and inflation produced better strikes, some communist lead

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What is fascism

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Stressed nationalism and placed the interests of the state above those of individuals

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What is Nazism

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The German brand of fascism, was based on extreme nationalism.

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How did the great depression help the Nazis come to power

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Because of war debts and dependence on American loans and investments, Germany’s economy was hit hard so the German people were desperate and turned to Hitler As there last hope

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Who was Gen. Francisco Franco

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The leader of the Spanish army Who rebelled against the Spanish Republic

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What were neutrality acts

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The first to act outlawed arm sales or loans to nations at war. The third act was passed in response to the fighting in Spain. This act extended the ban on arms sales and loans to nations engaged in civil wars

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What was Hitler’s first target

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Austria

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Why was it so easy for Hitler to join forces with Austria

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The majority of Austria is 6 million people were Germans Who favored unification with Germany

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Was Hitler’s second target

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Czechoslovakia

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Why did Hitler want to annex Czechoslovakia

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In order to provide more living space from Germany as well as to control it’s important natural resources

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Who is Neville Chamberlain

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British prime ministerWho was invited by Hitler to meet with him in Munich.

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What is the Munich agreement

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When they arrived, the Germans declared that the annexation of the Sudetenland would be his last territorial demand. In their eagerness to avoid war Chamberlain and Belledeer chose to believe him. They signed the agreement which turns the seudetrnland over to Germany without a single shot fired

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Who was Winston Churchill

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Amberlyn’s political rival in Great Britain

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What was appeasement

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In churchills view by singing the Munich agreement the Daladier and Chamberlin had adopted a shameful policy of appeasement or giving up principles to pacify an aggressor

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What was the nonaggression pact

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Stalin signed pact with Hitler. Once bitter enemies, on August 23, 1939 fascist Germany and Communist Russia now committed never to attack each other. Germany and the Soviet Union also signed a second, secret pact, agreeing to divide Poland between them. With the danger of the two front war illuminated, the fate of Poland was sealed

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What was Luftwaffe

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German Air Force

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What was the blitzkrieg

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Lightning war it made uses of advances in military technology that is fast tanks and more powerful aircraft to take the enemy by surprise and then quickly crush all opposition with overwhelming force

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How did World War II begin

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The blitzkrieg tactics work perfectly. Major fighting was over in three weeks, long before France Britain and their allies could mount a defense. In the last week of fighting, the Soviet union attacked Poland from the east, grabbing some of its territory. The portion Germany and next in western Poland contained almost 2/3 of Collins population. By the end of the month Poland had seased to exist

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Who is Charles de Gaulle

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After friends fell he fled to England where you set up a government in exile

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What was the lend lease policy

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Under this plan the president would lend or lease arms and other supplies to any country whose defense was vital to the United States

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Who was he Hideki Tojo

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Chief of Staff of Japan’s army, launched the invasion into China

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Was the women’s auxiliary Army corpse

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Under the spell women volunteers would serve in noncombat positions

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What was rationing

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Establishing fixed Allotments of goods deemed essential for the military

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Who is Dwight D Eisenhower

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Operation torch was launched commended by American General Dwight D Eisenhower

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Who is Omar Bradley

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Unleashed massive air and land bombardment against the enemy providing a gap in the German line of defense

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Who was George Patton

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Him and his third Army could advance into the German German line of defense

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What was the Battle of the Bulge

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Look up

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Who is Douglas MacArthur

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At the time of the Japanese invasion in December 1941 he was in command of allied forces on the islands

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Who is Chester Nimitz

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The commander of American naval forces in the Pacific, moved to defend the island of midway

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What were the results of the battle of Midway

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It was a turning point in the Pacific war as the Japanese had lost for aircraft carriers a cruiser and 250 planes

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Why was the battle of Midway a turning point in the Pacific war and what was their next strategy

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The Allies began island hopping. Island by I have and they want territory back from the Japanese. With each island Allied forces moved closer to Japan

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What was the kamikaze

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The Japanese suicide plan, attack in which Japanese pilots crash their bomb planes into allied ships.

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Why was the island of Iwo Jima critical to the United States

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A base from which heavily loaded bombers might reach Japan

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What was the battle of Iwo Jima

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The second to last battle that the allies phot to get to Japan killing 20,700 Japanese troops

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What was the Okinawa battle

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In April 1945 US Marines invaded Okey Nowela. Japanese unleashed more than 1900 kamikaze attacks and the allies during the Okinawa campaign, thinking 30 ships, damaging more than 300 more, and killing almost 5000 seamen. (Last battle before atomic bombs end war)

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What was Hiroshima

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An important Japanese military center in which the first atomic bomb codenamed little boy was dropped

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What was Nagasaki

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The second city to be bombed by the second atomic bomb codenamed fat man

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What are the Nuremberg trials

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24 surviving Nazi leaders were put on trial for crimes against humanity the crimes against the peace and war crimes. The defendants including Hitler’s most trusted party officials, government ministers, military leaders, and powerful industrialists

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What were the results of the Nurenberg trials

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12 of the 24 defendants were sentenced to death and most of the remaining were sent to prison

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What was the G.I. Bill of Rights

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This bill provided education and training for veterans, paid for by the federal government

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