World WarII And Cild War Flashcards

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Totalitarian state

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Country where a single party controls the government and every aspect of peoples lives

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Neutrality Acts

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Series of laws passed by congress in 1935 that banned arms sales or loans to countries at war

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Good neighbor policy

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President franklin Roosevelt’s policy intended to strengthen friendly relationships with Latin America

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Appeasement

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Practice of giving in to aggression in order to avoid war

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Nazi-soviet pact

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Agreement signed between Hitler’s and Stalin in 1939 in which the two dictators agreed not to attack each other

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Lend-Lease Act

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During world warII, the laws that allowed the United States to sell arms and equipment to Britain

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Atlantic charter

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Which set goals for the postwar world. The two support “the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they live”.

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Blitzkrieg

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The swift attacks launched by Germany in world warII

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