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What is Fascism

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right wing
totalitarian control
interest of the state more than individual rights

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What is Communism

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left wing

revolutionary idea of a political economic and social system that creates a classless society

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What is Nazism

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Extremely fascist naturalistic

Based on the belief of the national Socialist German workers party

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Who is Adolf Hertler

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chancellor of Germany

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What are the 8 decisive moments that led to World War II

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Saar plebiscite 
Re-Armament
Rhineland
Austria 
Sudetenland Crisis 
Munich Agreement 
Czechoslovakia
USSR (the soviet German alliance)
Poland
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What is the Rhineland

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Hitler invades the Rhineland on March 7, 1936. Breaking the Treaty of Versailles

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What is the USSR Soviet German alliance

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On August 23, 1939 the world is started when Germany and Soviet signed a nonaggression pact.

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What happens on September 1, 1939 September 3, 1939 and September 10, 1939

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September 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland
September 3, 1939 Great Britain declares war on Germany
September 10, 1939 Canada declares war on Germany

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What is the Sudeten land crisis

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Hitler was prepared to go to war with Czechoslovakia in order to break up the country and take the Sudetenland

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What’s the timeline for operation dynamo

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May 27, 1940 the June 4, 1940

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On what day does France surrender

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June 17, 1940

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What were the Jews for stage of isolation

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Stripping of right
Segregation
concentration
extermination

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When does Hitler break the pack between Germany and Russia

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June 22, 1941

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What was operation Barbarosa

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Germany want to attack does Russia before they got stronger and Germany attacked them too early

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When was the night of broken glass

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November 9 to November 10 of 1938

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What are concentration camps

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Used to hold and torture political opponents of the Nazi Germany

17
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When was the first concentration Camp established. What was the name of the first concentration camp.

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In 1933 Dachau

18
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Who is Harry S Truman

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President of the United States on April 12, 1945 upon the death of Franklin D Roosevelt
The one to make the decision of dropping the atomic bomb on Japan

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What is the atomic bomb

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The atomic bomb is also known as the Manhattan project the atomic bomb destroyed her Oshima and Nagasaki killing thousands of people

20
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What was the first atomic bomb name and where was it dropped

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The first atomic bomb was dropped on her Oshima on August 6, 1945 and was named the little boy

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When was the second atomic bomb dropped and where was it dropped

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It was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 and was called the fat man

22
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When did Japan surrender

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August 15, 1945

23
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Who invaded Ethiopia and when

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Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935

24
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What was the war in Africa about

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The allied attempts to provide Germany and Italy Italian forces from controlling the part of the world especially the very strategically important Suez Canal

25
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What is the holocaust

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Holocaust is the word of Greek origin meaning sacrifice by five fire during the era of the holocaust German authorities also targeted other groups gypsies the disabled Slavic people and others

26
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What was that enabling act and when was it passed

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March 1933 and was you so Hitler can rule alone for four years there is no need to consult Reichstag

27
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What is appeasement

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Willingness to surrender to an aggressor demand to avoid war

28
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What is the legal of nations

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Was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris peace conference that ended World War I and it was precursor to the United nation

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What was the longest tank battle of all time

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The battle of Kursk

30
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Who is Benito Mussolini

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I am Benito Mussolini the leader (Il

Duce) of Italy from 1922 to 1943.

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Who is Joseph Stalin

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I am Joseph Stalin, the leader of the

Soviet Union from 1922-1953.

32
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Who is Frederick Charles Blair

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Director of Immigration in Canada 1936-1943

33
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What is Auschwitz

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Auschwitz Birkenau camp had the largest

total prisoner population

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What is The Dieppe Raid

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One of Canada’s most significant (or at least
memorable contributions) to the war was their
assistance to the raid of the French port of Dieppe

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