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World war 2 vocab

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Benito Mussolini   Italian Fascist dictator.  
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Adolf Hitler   German dictator, head of the Nazi party.  
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Joseph Stalin   Communist dictator of the Soviet Union from 1924-1953  
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Neville Chamberlain   Prime Minister of Great Britain, made the Munich Agreement with Hitler.  
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General Dwight D. Eisenhower   The Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.  
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Tuskegee Airman   Famous segregated unit of African American pilots.  
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Code Talkers   Navajo Indians recruited by the U.S. Marine Corps to transmit messages in the Navajo language.  
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Pearl Harbor   U,S. Naval base attacked by Japanese forces on December 7,1941. Led to Americans joining the war effort.  
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D-Day   Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944.  
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Yalta Conference   The conference in which the allies planned the post-war world.  
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Battle of the Bulge   The final German assault in December 1944 in the Ardennes region of Belgium and Luxembourg.  
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Battle of Midway   The U.S. victory over Japanese off Midway Island that proved to be the turning point of the war.  
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Nuremberg Trials   The war crime trials of Nazi leaders in Nuremberg, Germany.  
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Potsdam Conference   The Allies’ meeting in Potsdam, Germany to plan the end of the war.  
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Lend-Lease Act   An act which allowed the United States to lend weapons to allies.  
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Axis Powers   The Rome-Berlin Axis, the alliance between Mussolini and Hitler later joined by Japan.  
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Appeasement   The meeting of demands from a hostile power in order to avoid war.  
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Blitzkrieg   The Nazi German crime of killing more than 11 million Jews and other persecuted peoples in concentration camps.  
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Manhattan Project   The top-secret government project to develop the atomic bomb.  
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Genocide   The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.  
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Island Hopping   The Allied strategy in the Pacific of invading selected islands, and using them as bases to advance closer to Japan.  
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Fascism   Political philosophy that advocates a strong nationalistic dictatorship.  
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Totalitarianism   A system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete obedience to the state.  
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Allied Powers (WWII)   The “Big Three” the United States, the Soviet Union and Great Britain allied together during World War II. Their alliance brought about victory during WWII.  
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Capitalism   an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.  
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Communism   An economic and political system in which the government plans and controls with the goal of common ownership.  
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