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Totalltarism

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Someone controls everything, politicss economy, culture, and media

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Appeasement

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Give someone what they want to avoid war

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Fascism

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A political movement that stressed extreme nationalism and autocratic rule

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Mein Kampf

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Book he wrote that promised solidarity stability Good economy, German empire

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Axis Powers

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Group of counties led by Germany, italy, and Japan

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Isolationism

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A policy of remaining apart from affairs or interests of other groups the especially political affairs of other countries

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Neutrality acts of 1939

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Act that allowed nations at war to buy goods and arms in the US If they paid cash and carried merchandise on their own snips

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Selective service

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Trained 1.2 million active troops
800,000 reserves

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War production board

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Factory conversion

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Non aggression pact

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Nazi/soviet union agreed on no aggression, and to divide Poland

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Atlantic Charter

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Churchill and FDR 41’
Pact signed by great Britain and the US that endorsed certain principals for building a lasting peace and establishing free gov in the world

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Strategic bombing

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Dropping bombs on political/ industrial targets

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Tuskegee airman

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. African saudron that escorted bombers in the air war over Europe

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America first committee

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’ Charles Lindbergh congress against American involvement

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Kamikaze

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Japanese pilots who deliberate crashed planes into American ships

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Executive order 9066

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Issued by President Franklin Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, this order authorized the evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland.

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Potsdam conference

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Big 3
Division of Germany (4 zones)
Free elections
USSR would help defeat Japan

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Office of price administration

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The OPA’s main responsibility was to place a ceiling on prices of most goods, and to limit consumption by rationing

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War bond

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Bond bought to fund a war effort, redeemable for interest after a certain period of time

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Island hopping

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WW2 strategy mat involved seizing selected Japanese held islands in the pacific while bypassing others

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Universal declaration of human rights

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Document issued by the UN to promote basic human rights and freedoms

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Nuremberg trials

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Trials in which nazi leaders were charged with war crimes
13,000 trials
22 put on trial
12 death sentence

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Great terror

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Stalin purged gov and military

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Munich pact

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England and France appeasement for hitler Scared of Stalin
Germany = butler

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Anti-semitism

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Displaying prejudice and discrimination against Jewish groups

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Blitzkrieg

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“Lightning war” that emphasizes the use of speed and firepower to penetrate deep into the enemy’s territory

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Allied powers

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Group of countries led by Britain France, U.S., USSR

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Neutrality

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Not picking sides

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Embargo

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is the partial or complete prohibition of commerce and trade with a particular country/state or a group of countries.

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Rationing

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Gov= controlled limits on the amount of certain goods that civilians could buy during war time

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Tripartite act

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Agreement created an alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan

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Lend lease act

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Passed jn 1941 that allowed president FDR to sell or lend war supplies to any country whose defense he considered vital to the safety of the US

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Unconditional surrender

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Giving up completely without any concessions

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Saturation bombing

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Tactic Of bombing massive amounts of bombs in order to inflict maximum damage

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Navajo code talkers

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Marine Corps leadership selected 29 Navajo men, the Navajo Code Talkers, who created a code based on the complex, unwritten Navajo language

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Bracero program

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Plan that brought laborers from Mexico to work on American farms

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Manhattan project

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Name of the U.S. government research project that developed the atomic bomb

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Internment

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Temp imprisonment of members of a specific group

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YAlta conference

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Big 3
Strategy
Poland, Bulgaria, and Romania would have free elections

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Office of war information

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Gov agency that encouraged support of the war effort

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Superpowers

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Strong nations that dominated post war world
USSR and US

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Fair employment of practice committee

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802, creating a Committee on Fair Employment Practices (FEPC) to investigate complaints of discrimination and take action against valid complaints in any defense industry receiving government contracts.

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Kristallnacht

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Nazi destroyed everything that belonged to Jewish
night of broken glass

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Geneva convention

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International agreement governing the humane treatment of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war

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Franklin rosevelt

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President if US
apart Of the big 3

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Benito Mussolini

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Italy
Fascist

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Hideki Tojo

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Leader of Japan

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Joseph Stalin

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Soviet Union
Communist
Great terror
Gulags

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Adolf hitler

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Led nationalist socialist German workers party
Anti-semantic
Attempted to overthrow government which resulted in jail (9 months in jail)
Write mein kompf

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Douglas mcarthur

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New military ruler of Japan
Supervised writing of Japan constitution
Gave women the right to vote
Led economic recovery
Attacks Philippines

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Chester Nimitz

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Battle at midway, blockaded Japan

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Eisenhower

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Alamen kept Germany from Suez Canal
Dday at Normandy

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Rommel and Bradley

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Big names in North America
Generals

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Oppenheimer

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Developed atomic bomb wirh Einstein

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Rosie the riveter

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The face of industrial working woman

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Winston Churchill

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Head of Britain
Apart of big 3

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Bernard mkontgomery

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Britain fought alongside Eisenhower at alamen

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George patten

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Helped in Normandy and North Africa

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