15.2 The Great Depression and WWII
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| Great Depression | a global economic crisis that struck countries around the world in the 1930s
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| stock market | an organization where shares of stocks in companies are "traded" (bought and sold)
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| Nazis | a German political party that favored autocratic government, territorial expansion, anti-Semitism, and Aryan (Caucasian, blue-eyed blonde Northern Europeans) supremacy
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| anti-Semitism | discrimination, prejudice, or hostility toward Jews
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| genocide | the planned killing of a race of people
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| Holocaust | the Nazis' effort to wipe out the Jewish people in WWII
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| United Nations | an international organization of countries that promotes peace and security around the world
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| Black Tuesday stock market crash | US event that triggered the Great Depression
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| Joseph Stalin | dictator of the Soviet Union who made all economic decisions, restricted religious worship, and used secret police to spy on people
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| Benito Mussolini | Italian dictator who suspended freedom of speech and trial by jury
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| Adolf Hitler | German dictator who banned all political parties except the Nazi party and attempted to eliminate "inferior" races
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| Germany and Italy | European countries whose invasions of other countries in the 1930s started Europe on the road to war
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| Poland | Hitler's invasion of this country on September 1, 1939 triggered WWII
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| Axis Powers | alliance formed by Germany, Italy, and Japan
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| Allies | alliance formed by France and Great Britain and later joined by the Soviet Union and the US
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| D-Day June 6, 1944 | date the Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy, France and began to advance on Germany
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| atomic bombs | powerful new US weapons whose use caused Japan to surrender and end WWII
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| United States | country whose banks and businesses loaned European countries money to recover from and rebuild after WWI
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| France and Great Britain | countries that declared war on Germany and officially started WWII
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