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Term | Definition |
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totalitarianism | theory of government in which a single party or leader controls the economic, social, and cultural lives of its people |
Joseph Stalin | he was the leader of the Communist Party, his name means "man of steel"; responsible for the deaths of up to 10 million people; led the Great Terror, an attempt to purge the Communist Party of real or suspected traitors |
Benito Mussolini | in 1919 he founded the Fascist Party, a right-wing organization that trumpeted nationalism and promised to make Italy great again |
Adolf Hitler | led the Nazi party; son of minor Austrain civil servant; failed artist, a wounded and decorated World War I soldier |
anti-Semitic | prejudice against Jewish people motivated by religious intolerance and economic resentment |
Spanish Civil War | a bloody conflict that raged from 1936-1939; rebelled against Spain's democratic republican government. both Hitler and Mussolini |
appeasement | a granting concessions to a potential enemy in the hope that it will maintain peace |
Anschluss | spring of 1939 in the fall, Hitler turned toward the Sudetenland, a portion of western czechoslovakia that was largely populated by ethnic Germans |
Munich Pact | the agreement reached at the conference, had preserved "peace for our time" he was wrong. it merely postponed the war for 11 months. |