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Mein kampf   book by hitler in which he outlined his politics, literally, "my struggle"  
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fuhrer   title taken by hitler in 1934 literally, "leader"  
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fascism   a strong centralized government with a dictator  
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nazi party   fascist political party founded by Hitler which ruled Germany from 1933-1945  
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Hitler   fascist leader of Germany  
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Gestapo   Hitler's secret police  
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Mussolini   fascist leader of Italy  
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Rome-Berlin Axis   military alliance between Germany and Italy (1936)  
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Anschluss   union between austria and germany  
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appeasement   giving in to an aggressor to preserve peace  
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neville chamberlain   british prime minister who followed a policy of appeasement  
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munich pact of 1938   germany would receive sudetenland in return for hitler's promise not to make any more territorial demands  
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winston churchill   british prime minister who had warned britain not to trust hitler  
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nonaggression pact   secret agreement between germany an soviet union not to fight one another  
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blitzkrieg   lightning war-sudden, swift, massive attack  
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f.d. roosevelt   president of the u.s. during much of world war II  
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lend-lease   replaced cash and carry. u.s. program for giving military supplies to britain and soviet union during wwII  
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scorched earth policy   military practice used by retreating armies of destroying everything as the armies retreat, leaving nothing for advancing army  
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nuremberg laws of 1935   stripped german Jews of their civil rights  
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genocide   deliberate, systematic extermination of a group of people  
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holocaust   systematic destruction of more than six million european jews by the nazis before and during WWII  
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Erwin Rommel   desert fox, led the german offensive in north africa  
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bernard montgomery   british general who blocked Nazi offensive at al alamein  
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dwight eisenhower   american general who led allied offensives in N. Africa and Europe  
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d-day   june 6, 1944-day of allied invasion in france  
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stalingrad   turning point in the war  
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second front   normandy  
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battle of midway   june 1942-u.s. crippled japanese navy-turning point in the war  
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island hopping   american strategy for attacking only key islands  
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macarthur   u.s. general who led the retreat of american philipponal troops. he acepted the japanese surrender on the u.s.s. missouri  
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tojo   japanese general who came to power in late 1941  
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hirohito   japanese emperor during wwII  
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long range causes of the war   treaty of versaille and economic depression  
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immediate causes of the war   rise of totalitarian govt's (italy and germany), expanionist policies of germany, italy, and japan, policy of appeasement and munich 1938, german invasion of poland  
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immediate effects   devastating loss of property in europe/japan (55 million dead and 4 trillion in property damage, holocaust, atomic bomb, soviet control of eastern europe  
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long range effects   cold war, divided germany, founding of united nations, nato and warsaw pact, rise of nationalism  
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