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Chapter 14
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| totalitarianism | theory of government in which a single party or leader controls the economic, social,and cultural lives of its people |
| Joseph Stalin | took Lenin's place in 1924 as head of the Communist Party. He wanted to turn the Soviet Union into an industrial power and form state run collective farms. He purged his party of traitorsthe Great Terror.Fear and propaganda kept him in power |
| Benito Mussolini | Founded the Fascist Party , who favored nationalism.He outlawed political parties,took over the press,created a secret police,organized youth groups to indoctrinate the young, and suppressed strikes. |
| Adolf Hitler | He blamed the Jews for Germany's bad economy and criticized communists in Mein Kampf. He led the Nazi Party and planned on world domination |
| Anti-Semitic | prejudice and discrimination against Jewish people |
| Spanish Civil War | Nationalist forces led by General Francisco Franco rebelled against the democratic Republican governemnt of Spain |
| appeasement | mpolicy of granting concessions in order to keep peace |
| Anschluss | union of Germany and Austria in 1933 |
| Munich Pact | agreement made between Germany, Italy, Great Brutain, and France in 1938 that sacrificed the Sudenetenland to preserve peace |
| blitzkrieg | "lightning war" that emphacized the use of speed and firepower to penetrate deep into the enemy's territory |
| Axis Powers | group of countries led by Germany, Italy,and Japan that fought the Allies in WWII |
| Allies | group of countries led by Britain, France, the US, and the Soviet Union that fought the Axis Powers in WWII |
| Winston Churchill | Great Gritain's prime minister.cautioned Parliament "wars are not won by evacuations." He believed the US should join the war because it threatened their democracy and they were a world power. |
| Neutrality Act of 1939 | act that allowed nations at war to buy goods and arms in the US if they paid cash and carried the merchandise on their own ships |
| Tripartite Pact | agreement that created an alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan during WWII |
| Lend-Lease Act | act passed in 1941 that allwoed President Roosevelt to sell or lend war supplies to any country whose defense he considered vital to the safety of the US |
| Atlantic Charter | a joint declaration made in Aug.1941 by Britain and the USduring WWII, that endorsed national self-determination and an international system of general security |
| Hideki Tojo | became the Japanese prime minister in 1941,known as "the Razor." He focused on military expansion and to keep the US neautral |
| Pearl Harbor | American military attacked by the Japanese on Dec.7,1941 |
| WAC | US Army group established during WWII so that women could serve in noncombat roles |
| Douglas MacArthur | commander of US army forces in Asia who struggled to hold the US positions in the Philipines with little support. |
| Bataan Death March | during WWII, the forced march of American and Filipino prisoners of war under brutal conditions by the Japanese military |
| Battle of Coral Sea | WWII battle that took place between Japanese and American aircraft carriers |
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