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CHAPTER 23

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totalitarianism   theory of gov. on which a single party or leader controls the economic, social, and cultural lives of its people  
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Joseph Stalin   dictator and head of the Communist Party in Russia  
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Benito Mussolini   founder of the Fascist Part and Italian dictator  
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Adolf Hitler   leader of the Nazi Party in Germany who seized power and attempted world domination  
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Anti-Semitic   prejudice and discrimination against Jewish people  
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Spanish Civil War   nationalist forces led by Gen. Francisco Franco rebelled against the democratic Rep. gov. of Spain  
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appeasement   policy of granting concessions to a potential enemy in the hope that it will maintain peace  
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Anschluss   union in which Hitler forced Austria to become part of Germany's territory  
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Munich Pact   agreement in which Britain and France attempted to preserve peace by allowing Hitler to take more territory  
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blitzkrieg   lightning war  
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Axis Powers   Germany, Italy, Japan, and other nations that fought together during WWII  
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Allies   Britain, France, the Soviet Union, the U.S, China, and other nations that fought against the Axis Powers during WWII  
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Winston Churchhill   British prime minister during WWII  
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Neutrality Act of 1939   Amer. law that allowed nations at war to buy U.S. arms if they paid cash and earned them away on their own ships  
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Tripartite Pact   three-party agreement establishing on alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan  
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Lend-Lease Act   Amer. law that allowed the U.S. to lend, lease, sell, or otherwise provide aid to other nations if doing so helped in the defense of the U.S.  
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Atlantic Charter   document signed by Roosevelt and Churchhill that endorsed national self-determination and an international system of gen. security  
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Gen. Hideki Tojo   Japanese prime minister  
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Cordell Hull   U.S. Sec. of State and rejected Japan's demands  
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Pearl Harbor   Hawaii site of U.S. Navy's main Pacific base  
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Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo   commanded forces to Pearl Harbor  
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Edith Nourse Rogers   Congresswoman who introduced bill to establish Women's Army Corps  
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Women's Army Corps   provided clerical workers, truck drivers, instructors and lab technicians for U.S. army  
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War Production Board   to oversee conversion of peacetime industry to war industry  
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Office of War Mobilization   worked together to allocate secure materials into the proper industries, regulate the production of civilian goods, establish production contracts, negotiate with organized labor, and control inflation  
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Ford Motor Company   gave resources to war production  
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Henry J. Kaiser's   liberty ships  
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Gen. Douglas MacArthur   commander of U.S. Army forces in Asia  
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Bataan Death March   sick and malnourished Amer. forced to walk Peninsula  
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Colonel James Doolittle   led USS Hornet to bomb Japan  
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Battle of Coral Sea   battle between the U.S. and Japan where Japan was forced to give up on New Guinea  
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