WW2 Flashcards

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Dictator

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a person who rule,s a country with total authority

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Adolf hitler

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Fascist leader of Germany

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Benito mussolini

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Italy Fascist dictator

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Joseph stalin

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Communist dictator

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Nazism

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German politcal belief that believed in germany

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poland

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/final country germany invaded before Britain Declared war to stop grman agggression

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AXis power

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italy germany and japan

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Appeasment

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Giving in to demands to aviod confilct

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Nonaggression pact

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A non-aggression pact or neutrality pact is a treaty between two or more states/countries that includes a promise by the signatories not to engage in military action against each other.

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Domestic affairs

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1 of or involving the home or family. 2 enjoying or accustomed to home or family life. 3 (of an animal) bred or kept by man as a pet or for purposes such as the supply of food. 4 of, produced in, or involving one’s own country or a specific country. domestic and foreign affairs.

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Neutrality

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During World War II, neutral powers were the countries that chose to not choose sides throughout the war. The neutral powers did not take any side with the hopes of avoiding attack from the countries at war.

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Neutlity ACts

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U.S. involvement in future wars. They were based on the widespread disillusionment with World War I in the early 1930s and the belief that the United States had been drawn into the war through loans and trade with the Allies.

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CAsh and carry

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a system of wholesale trading whereby goods are paid for in full at the time of purchase and taken away by the purchaser.

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LEND-LEASE act

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President Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease bill into law on March 11, 1941. It permitted him to “sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of, to any such government [”

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Allied power

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the name for the alliance formed by great britain france the soviet union and the USA

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ISolationism

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Isolationists advocated non-involvement in European and Asian conflicts and non-entanglement in international politics.

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Gestapo

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was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe. The force was created by Hermann Göring in 1933 by combining the various security police

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anti-semitism

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hostility to or prejudice against Jews.

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FACISM

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Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, left, and Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany, led fascist movements in the 1930s and ’40s. Fascism is a complex ideology.

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TOtalitarianism

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The events leading up to WW2 included the growing power of the type of government referred to as Totalitarianism and the rise of the Dictators such as Hitler, Mussolini, Franco and Stalin.