WWII Causes Terms Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| treaty | a written agreement between two states or countries |
| reparations | financial payments by the loser of a war |
| inflation | general and progressive increase in prices; "in inflation everything gets more valuable except money" |
| unrest | a feeling of restless agitation |
| fascism | a political theory advocating an authoritarian government |
| prosperity | an economic state of growth with rising profits and full employment |
| appeasement | the strategic maneuver, that leads to the adopting of a non-aggressive stance towards aggressors. |
| hardship | extreme suffering |
| annex | to incorporate (territory) into an existing political unit such as a country, state, county, or city |
| embargo | a prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation. |
| totalitarianism | political system in which the government controls every aspect of citizens' lives |
| Mussolini | last name of leader who gained complete control of Italy in 1922. |
| Hitler | last name of politician and a WWI veteran who declared that by ridding Germany of Jews, Germany would rise again to greatness. |
| Stalin | last name of the dictator of the Soviet Union in 1928. He terrorized millions of Soviet citizens through imprisonment or killing. |
| Churchill | last name of British admiral who was not convinced that appeasement would stop Hitler. He was known for his "bulldog spirit". |
| Roosevelt | last name of the President of the U.S. at the beginning of WWII. |
| Truman | last name of the President was faced with the challenged of winning the war in the Pacific. He gave the order for atomic bombs to be dropped in Japan. |
| Chancellor | this is the title that Hitler held as the highest position in the German government |
| French | Charles de Gaulle was the political figurehead of the Free French Movement during WWII. |
| Chamberlain | last name of the Prime Minister of Great Britain that attempted the tactic of appeasement in the late 1930s. |
| Tito | last name of the famous loyal resistance leader from Yugoslavia |
| Tojo | last name of the Prime Minister of Japan when the attack on Pearl Harbor took place. He was later executed as a war criminal. |
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