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Fascism
A militant and nationalistic movement that emphasized loyalty to the state and obedience to its leader
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Benito Musolini
Newspaper editor and Fascist leader of Italy; known for his powerful speeches. vowed to return Italy to its past greatness
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black Shirts
Groups of Fascist soldiers loyal to Mussolini who would ttack communists and socialists o the streets
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March on Rome
Resulted in Mussolin becoming the leader of Italy
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Victor Emanuel
the king of Italy during WWI
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Il Duce
Mussolini's nickname "leader"
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Hitler
the Fascist dictator that rejected the treaty of Versailles, began to rearm germany and blamed Jews and communists for WWI
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Nazism
The German brand of Fascism, the nationalist Socialist german Worker's party
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Swastica
A hooked cross that the Nazi's adopted for their symbol
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Brown Shirts
Hitler's private militia of storm troopers
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Dur Fuhr
Hitler's nickname "leader"
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hall Hutch
Attempt by Hitler to over throw the German government that started in a German Beer hall and resulted in Hitlers imporsonment
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mein kampf
Hitler's book, My Struggle. Hitler set forth his goals for Germany
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Aryans
Hitler;s term for the "master race", especially those who were blond and blue eyed
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Lebensraum
"living space" Hitler believed Germany could obtain this by conquering eastern Europe and Russia
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Alfred Hindenberg
84 year old president of Germany who named Hitler chancellor in 1933 bc they thought they could control Hitler
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SS pilice
Groups loyal to Hitler, an elite black uniformed unit that killed Hitler's enemies. Secret police
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Juan Perron
Argentinean dictator who patterned his rule after that of European Fascists
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Hitler youth
"Hitler Jugend" joined by most German school boys
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Jesse Owens
This American sprinter won four gold medals in the 1932 Berlin Olympics
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Appeasment
Practice of giving into a dictator to keep peace
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Acis Power
japan, Italy & germany alliance
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Francisco franco
The Fascist leader of Spain after the Civil War
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Isolation
The belief that political ties to other countries should be avoided to prevent war
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Third Reich
Germany's empire that would include Austria and Szechoslovakia
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munich confrence
A meeting of France, Germany, and Britain that allowed Germany to occupy the Rhineland and Hitler promised to respect Cxechoslovakia's new borders
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Kelleg-Briand Pact
International agreement signed in 1922 renouncing all war
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Emperor Hirohito
The Godlike leader of japan during WWII
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Hideki Tojo
A militaristic japanese general and Prime Minister of japan during WWII
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Rape of Nanking
The Japanese attack on thousands of captured troops and civilians during the Japanese occupation of China
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Haille Sellasi
The emperor of Ethiopia during WWII
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Ethiopia
Taken over by Italy during WWII
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Rhineland
A region or buffer zone between France and Germany that Hitler militarized in 1936
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Guerrnica
A famous painting by Pablo Picasso that shows the brutality of the Nazi air attack on a Spanish town
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Neutrality acts
Banned loans and the sale of arms to nations at war
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Anschluss
Term for the unification of Austria and Germany
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Sudetenland
Area in Czechoslovakia where German-speaking people lived
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Danzig
Region in Poland desired by Hitler for its port
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Chamberlain
The leader of Britain at the beginning of WWII who practiced the policy of appeasement
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non agression pact
An agreement to not attack each other that was signed by germany and the USSR
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league of Nations
An international association created after WWI with the goal of keeping peace between nations
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Treaty of Versailles
An agreement between Germany and the Allied Powers of WWI that limited Germany's ability to rearm
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