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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