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Terms in this set (21)

Rule by one all-powerful
dictator.Political system that
emphasized loyalty to its
state and obedience to its
leader.State dictates economic
activities of individuals
Fascism
By Aug. 1944, the
Allies had
liberated:

France, Belgium,
Luxembourg and
the Netherlands.
Liberated allies
Thousands of businesses failed and banks closed. Refers to the failed U.S. Economy set off by the stock market crash of 1929. Banks fail, savings vanish, 25% unemployment.
Global Economic Depression
Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco Bahamonde was a Spanish general and the Caudillo of Spain from 1936/1939 until his death in 1975.
Francisco Franco
The belief that political ties to other countries should be avoided. American policy prior to World War Two. The belief that the USA should avoid International and specifically European conflicts.
Isolationism
German brand of Facism
Nazism
Thousands of
Japanese
Americans
were interned
in relocation
camps based
on their
ancestry.
Civil rights and war
Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower was the
Supreme Allied
Commander.
Field Marshall Montgomery
was the overall commander of
the Ground forces.
Leaders of d day
Best explanation:

Soviet's larger army

Americans
manufacture more
weapons

Germany fighting on several fonts
*Allied Victory
Over Germany*
an economic system in which the state owns the means of production, controls capital, and is the primary determinant of prices, wages, etc. In theory, its purpose is to prevent the oppression of some groups in the society by others with greater economic power
Communism
International organization founded after WWI to promote world peace and cooperation but greatly weakened by the refusal of the United States to join. It proved ineffectual in stopping aggression by Italy, Japan, and Germany in the 1930s.
League of Nations
Economic policy/plans that Joseph Stalin introduced to industrialize the Soviet Union rapidly, beginning in 1928. They set goals for the output of steel, electricity, machinery, and most other products and were enforced by the police powers of the state. Included massive industrialization and farm collectivization, where peasants lived collectively on government owned farms, often resulted in widespread famine as many peasants resisted this policy.
Five-Year Plans
a 20th century nihilistic art movement that flourished in Europe during the early 20th century reacting to and rejecting all established traditions of logic and art
Dadaism
Auschwitz
was one of the
largest
concentration
camps.

Prisoners lead to
their deaths
Concentration Camps
Began August
23, 1942

Luftwaffe went
on bombing
raids

The turning
point in the
war between
Germany and
USSR
Battle for Stalingrad
July 10, 1943

180,000 Allied
forces landed on
Sicily and
captured it

Conquest of Sicily
toppled Mussolini
from power

September 3rd-
Italy surrendered
to the Allies
Invasion of
Italy
Mussolini disguised
himself as a
German soldier,
was discovered and
shot

His body was
hanged in the
Milan town square
Fate of Mussolini
The "Final
Solution" reached
its final stage in
January 1942

Mass
Extermination
The Final Stage
Hitler's hatred of Jews lead to persecution

Forbid Jews to hold public office

1935 Nuremberg Laws: took away Jews rights
Persecution: A Gov't
Policy
Hitler's victories
gave credibility

Proclaimed
that Aryans,
Germanic
peoples, were
a "Master
Race"
"New Order" in Europe
Russian dictator who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition
Joseph Stalin
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