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Human Rights |
Rights that all humans are born with which may include life and liberty. |
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Holocaust |
When 6 million Jews were placed in concentration camps and murdered under the leadership of Adolph Hitler |
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Scapegoat |
A group of people that are blamed for a countries problems. |
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Democracy |
A government where the people rule |
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Economic Depression |
When unemployment is high and prices are rising which leads to widespread poverty. |
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Fascism |
A government where a dictator has supreme command and the nation state is more important than the individual. Political opposition is punished severely. |
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Concentration Camps |
Detention center for civilians that were considered enemies of the state. |
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Sanction |
Penalty |
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Pacifism |
Belief in peace and refuse to fight in wars. |
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Blitzkrieg |
German word for lightening war. All and out attack with constant explosions from the air and land. |
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Collaborator |
Person who cooperates with the enemy. Ex. Those who turned Jews in to Hitler’s Gestapo |
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Mussolini |
Italian dictator, mentor of Hitler. |
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Black Shirts |
Gangs who supported Mussolini. |
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Il Duce |
“the leader,” Mussolini’s nickname |
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Roman Lake |
What Mussolini planned to make the Mediterranean Sea. |
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Weimar Republic |
Democratic government in Germany after WWI. |
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Inflation |
Rising prices. |
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Adolf Hitler |
German leader during WWII. |
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Nazi Party |
National socialists German workers party (Hitler’s Party). |
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Mein Kampf |
“my struggle,” book by Hitler. |
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Master race |
Hitler’s idea that German Arayans were the superior race. |
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Lebensraum |
living space – Hitler’s idea that Germany needed to expand. |
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Fuhrer |
Strong Leader (Hitler’s nickname). |
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Great Depression |
Bad economic times – high unemployment. |
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Third Reich |
Hitler’s rule of Germany – he bragged that it would last 1,000 years. |
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SS troops |
Hitler’s elite black-uniformed troops. |
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Gestapo |
Hitler’s secret police. |
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Hitler’s Youth |
Pledged absolute loyalty to Germany and prepared for war. |
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Nuremberg Laws |
Placed severe restrictions of Jews, prohibited from marrying non- Jews, attending schools or universities, holding government jobs, practicing law or medicine or publishing books. |
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Kristallnacht |
The night of broken glass – first attack on the Jews of Germany. |
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Concentration Camps |
Detention centers for civilians considered enemies of state. |
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Final Solution |
Hitler’s plan for the extermination of all Jews. |
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Scapegoats |
Someone blamed for a problem. |
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Appeasement |
Giving in to the demands of an aggressor to keep the peace. |
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Pacifism . |
Opposition to all war |
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Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis |
Italy, Germany and Japan. |
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Anschluss |
Union with Germany. |
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Munich Conference |
British and French leaders gave in to Germany, persuaded the Czech’s to surrender the Sudetenland. |
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Nazi-Soviet Pact |
Non-aggression pact between Hitler (Germany) and Stalin (USSR). |
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September 1, 1939 |
Germany invaded Poland (start WWII). |
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Blitzkrieg |
Lightning war. |
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Miracle of Dunkirk |
300,000 British troops rescued by a flotilla of war ships and fishing boats |
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Charles de Gaulle |
Leader of French government in exile. |
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Battle of Britain |
Massive air strike by Hitler against Britain |
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Operation Barbarossa |
Hitler’s plan for conquest of the Soviet Union. |
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Lend-Lease Act |
Allowed the US President FDR to sell or lend war materials to any country whose defense he deemed vital to the USA. |
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Atlantic Charter |
War goals set by Roosevelt and Churchill. |
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Pearl Harbor |
Where Japan attached the American Fleet. |
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Genocide |
Deliberate attempt to destroy an entire religious or ethnic group. |
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Holocaust |
Hitler’s massacre of more than 6 million Jews. |
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Collaborators |
People who worked with the Nazis. |
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Big Three |
Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin – leaders of the allies. |
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Stalingrad |
One of the costliest battles of the war – Russia takes over. |
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General Eisenhower |
Supreme allied commander, after war he becomes President of the USA. |
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D-Day |
allied invasion of France (Normandy) June 6, 1944. |
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Island Hopping |
recapturing some Japanese held islands and passing on others. |
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Battle of the Bulge |
Massive German counter attack (Germany lost). |
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Kamikaze |
Pilots who undertook suicide missions at the end of the war (Japanese). |
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War crime trials |
Axis leaders were tried for “crimes against humanity” at Nuremberg. |
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