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Chapter 12 Mastering the TEKS

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Kellog-Briand Pact   the US and 62 nations renounced the use of war  
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Good Neighbor Policy   the US agreed to stop interfering in Latin American affairs, which improved relations between them  
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Russian Revolution 1917   under Lenin and Stalin, the Soviet Union became the first communist state  
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Joseph Stalin   totalitarian dictator of the Soviet Union who used concentration camps to punish his critics  
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NAZI Party   the German National Socialists took advantage of fear of communism, and emotions from the Treaty of Versailles to seize power and installed a fascists state  
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Adolf Hitler   rose to power establishing a brutal dictatorship and setting Europe on the path to war with his aggressive policy of taking land from other countries  
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League of Nations    
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Sudetenland   part of Czechoslovakia that was given to Hitler at the Munich Conference when he threatened war  
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appeasement   the policy of giving in to satisfy demands of an enemy  
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Blitzkrieg   Germany's rapid coordinated warfare using tanks, planes, infantry and paratroopers to bypass enemy lines  
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Neutrality Acts   American laws that prohibited citizens from traveling on ships from countries at war-in order to prevent US from entering war  
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Cash -and-Carry   Americans could sell non-military goods to Britain for cash only and they had to carry the supplies on their own ships  
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Quarantine Speech   FDR warned Americans that peaceful nations had to act together to isolate aggressive nations  
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Flying Tigers   American volunteers who were recruited to fight Japanese fighter pilots in Asia  
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Lend-Lease Act   America began selling and leasing war materials to any country who was deemed vital to the defense of US interests-Britain primarily  
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Four Freedoms   FDR's plan to establish freedom of speech, expression, religion, and from want/fear  
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Atlantic Charter   FDR & Winston Churchill agreed to work together without seeking territories to protect the seas and end the war  
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Pearl Harbor   Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese surprise attack against the US naval base in Honolulu led to US entering WWII  
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