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Dictator

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A person who rules a country with total authority and often in a or brutal way

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Adolf Hitler

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Fascist leader of Germany

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Benito Mussolini

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Italy’s fascist dictator

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Joseph Stalin

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Communist dictator of the Soviet Union

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Nazism

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German political belief that believed in Germany ethnic solidarity

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Poland

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Final country Germany invaded before British declared war to stop Germany aggression

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Axis powers

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Italy, Germany and Japan

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Appeasement

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Giving in to demands to avoid conflict

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Nonaggression Pact

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Agreement Hitler signed with the Soviet Union that allowed him to invade Poland without Soviet Retribution

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Domestic Affairs

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Events or Problems that happen within your own country

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Neutrality

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Refusing to support either side in an argument or disagreement

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Neutrality Act

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Series of laws that kept America out of WWII when it began

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Cash and carry

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American policy under while neutral. which sold weapons to a nation at war for cash and if they transported the shipments

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Lend-Lease-act

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Program for the United States to supply arms to the allies while officially staying out of war

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Gestapo

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a political secret police created by Adolf Hitler to investigate and put down any political opposition

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Isolationism

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A policy of avoiding contact with other countries

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Allied Powers

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the name for the alliance formed by Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States during World War II.

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anti-Semitism

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hostility toward and discrimination againist Jews

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Fascism

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a political system based on nationalism and strong government; Adolf Hitler in Germany and Benito Mussolini in Italy were the first fascist leaders.

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Totalitarian

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A system in which the government controls all aspects of people’s lives

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