World War II

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Mao Zedong

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Leader of Chinese communist forces

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Lebensraum

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“Living space”

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Appeasement

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Buying off an aggressor by territorial concession

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Edward Daladier

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Prime minister of France who met with Hitler to settle the crisis over the Sudetenland

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Neville Chamberlain

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Prime minister of Britain who met several times with Hitler to settle the Czech crisis, which revolved around the Sudetenland

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Francisco Franco

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Leader of the Fascists in Spain who waged civil war on the loyalists and defeated them in 1939 and then became dictator

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Pact of Steel

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Military alliance between Mussolini and Hitler

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Nazi Soviet Pact

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Non-aggression agreement which gave Hitler the confidence to attack Poland

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Winston Churchill

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Member of the House of Commons who denounced giving in to Hitler and warned Britain that Hitler would continue his territorial expansion

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Chiang Kaishek

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Leader of the Nationalist party in China began a military campaign to reunite China under a national government

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Il Duce

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Term which means “leader” or “commander”

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Vatican City

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Small independent state put under the pope’s control

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Autarky

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Program to make Italian economy self-sufficient, including foodstuffs and manufactured goods

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Fasces

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Emblem or symbol of authority in Ancient Rome

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Fascist Grand Council

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Group of about twenty men who ran the Italian government under the dictator

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Syndicates

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The division of Italy’s entire workforce into thirteen groups under the watchful eye of the government

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Benito Mussolini

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Drew together various strong Italian nationalist groups and gradually turned Italy into a totalitarian state

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Fascism

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Highly nationalistic ideology which glorifies the state with a powerful military dictator

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Victor Emmanuel

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Appointed Mussolini premier of Italy

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Mein Kampf

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Hitler’s autobiography in which he wrote his views about Germany, Germany’s problem, and proclaimed the Germanic peoples the “master race”

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Autobahn

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Provided a military highway through Germany in case it became necessary to fight another two-front war

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S.A.

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Hitler’ storm troopers who through strong arm tactics helped the Nazis acquire power

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Reichstag

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Representative body in the German government through which the Nazis rose to power

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Paul von Hindenburg

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President of the German Republic who asked Hitler to join in a coalition government as vice-chancellor

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S.S.

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Elite organisation whose original function was to protect Hitler

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Gestapo

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Nazi secret police

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Weimar Republic

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German government formed under the constitution at the end of WWI

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Hitler’s first move to build a German Empire was his march into

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The Rhineland

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In 1939 Hitler signed a non-aggression pact with

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Russia

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Iwo Jima was important to the Americans because

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It was located only 26 miles from Tokyo Bay

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Vichy

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Southern half of France under Marshal Petain who ruled for the Germans