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Winston Churchill

Charles de Gaulle

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Category #1 Category #2 Category #3 Category #4 Category #5 Category #6Nazi

Germany Lenin Stalin WWII Road to War

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Holocaust

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In this 1938 event, the Nazis attacked Jewish synagogues and businesses and

beat up and arrested many Jews.

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Kristallnacht (“Night of Broken

Glass”)

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This 1934 event resulted in Hitler’s

destruction of the S.A. (at the request of the

German military).

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“Night of Long Knives”

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This idea from Mein Kampf called for

Germany to conquer lands in eastern Europe to expand Germany’s

empire.

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“lebensraum” (“living space”)

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These laws gave Hitler dictatorial power in

Germany beginning in 1934.

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Enabling Acts

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These laws, beginning in 1935, stripped Jews of their citizenship and severely discriminated

against all Jewish people.

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Nuremburg Laws

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Lenin reluctantly allowed some

capitalistic measures in the early 1920s when he instituted

this program.

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NEP (New Economic

Policy)

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During the Russian Civil War, this became

the first type of communism practiced

in the Soviet Union between 1918 and

1920.

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war communism

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Lenin oppressed his opponents

through the use of this secret police

organization.

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Cheka

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This leader of the Red Army had more

philosophically in common with Lenin

than did Stalin.

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Leon Trotsky

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This 20th-century political philosophy claims a

communist society must first be controlled by a dictatorship of a small group of professional revolutionary elites.

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Marxist-Leninism

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In order to catch up to the West

industrially, Stalin instituted the first of these in 1928.

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Five-Year Plans

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This was Stalin’s program to

communize the countryside and

increase agricultural productivity.

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collectivizatio

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Stalin staged these events in the 1930s to rid his government of

Old Bolsheviks.

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show trials or purges

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Millions of Soviet citizens died in

these Soviet camps.

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gulags

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Unlike Trotsky who believed in an

immediate international communist revolution, Stalin believed in this

policy by the mid-1920s.

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“Socialism in One Country”

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This 1942-43 battle was the turning

point of the war in Eastern Europe.

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Stalingrad

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This June, 1944 battle was the

turning point of the war in western

Europe.

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D-Day (Allied invasion of Normandy)

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This 1945 war-time conference stated that

Germany would be divided into four zones

and that a United Nations would be

created.

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Yalta Conference

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This August, 1939 agreement opened the

way for Germany’s invasion of Poland and

the division of that country with the USSR.

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German-Soviet Non-Aggression

Pact

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This 1938 conference represented the height

of appeasement and gave part of

Czechoslovakia to Germany.

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Munich Conference

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This economic catastrophe of the late

20s and early 30s became a major cause

for the rise of fascism in Germany and Japan.

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Great Depression

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This international organization failed in

its mission of collective security to prevent another World War.

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League of Nations

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Germany reoccupied this German region in

1936 in direct violation of the

Versailles Treaty.

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Rhineland

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This German term refers to Germany’s

annexation of Austria in 1938.

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Anschluss

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In 1939, Hitler demanded that this city

in the Polish Corridor become a “free city” with clear access to Germany via rail.

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Danzig

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This Nazi death camp in Poland is the most notorious as nearly

one million Jews died there.

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Auschwitz

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Prior to the construction of death

camps, Jews were herded into these sealed districts in

Polish cities.

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What are ghettos?

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This 1941 meeting resulted in the “Final

Solution” to the Jewish question.

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Wannsee Conference

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This Nazi organization headed by Heinrich

Himmler oversaw the Holocaust.

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SS

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In addition to six million others who died in the

Holocaust, this percentage of European

Jews perished in the Holocaust.

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two-thirds

Category #1 Category #2 Category #3 Category #4 Category #5 Category #6

Il Duce The Third Reich

Soviet Union

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This group of para-military thugs

provided the muscle for Mussolini’s rise to

power.

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Black Shirts

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In 1935, Mussolini ordered the invasion of this African nation as payback for a pre-

WWI defeat.

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Ethiopia

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This 1922 event resulted in

Mussolini taking power in the

Kingdom of Italy.

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March on Rome

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In this 1929 deal, Mussolini gave the Vatican sovereignty

while the pope agreed to stay largely out of Italy’s

political matters.

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Lateran Pact

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Mussolini organized this type of fascist

state, where various economic interests in the country function collectively for the

benefit of the state.

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corporate state

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Hitler believed that this race was superior to all

others.

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Aryan

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This 1933 event in Germany gave Hitler an excuse to destroy the communist party and

arrest its leaders.

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Reichstag fire

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This member of Hitler’s inner circle

was the Nazi propaganda minister

who was determined to make the Führer look

like a “god.”

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Joseph Goebbels

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This member of Hitler’s inner circle eventually became the leader of the

German Luftwaffe (air force).

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Hermann Göring

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This filmmaker contributed to the

larger-than-life image of Hitler through her

film Triumph of the Will.

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Leni Riefenstahl

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These relatively wealthy peasants became targets of

Stalin’s wrath as they resisted

collectivization.

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Kulaks

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This city became the new capital of Russia after the

Russian Revolution.

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Moscow

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This phrase represents Stalin’s belief in brutal top-down rule during the Five-Year Plans.

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“Revolution from Above”

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This novel by George Orwell satirized the Russian Revolution and Stalinist rule.

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Animal Farm

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Stalin conquered these three Baltic

states shortly after the beginning of

World War II.

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Estonia, Latvia,

Lithuania

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This technological innovation enabled the

Royal Air Force’s victory over the

Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain.

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radar

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This new type of German warfare in WWII allowed it to defeat its enemies

quickly.

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blitzkrieg

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The Allies founded this international

organization in 1945 in the hopes of promoting peace after World War

II.

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United Nations

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Marshal Henri-Philippe Pétain headed this new

puppet state in the German empire

beginning in 1940.

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Vichy France

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Question

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This 1941 document proclaimed the Allies would not fight for

territorial conquest but rather to promote peace

through a new international organization.

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Atlantic Charter

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The United States entered World War II when Japan attacked

this target.

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Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

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On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on this Japanese city.

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Hiroshima

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This 1942 battle was the turning point of the war

in the Pacific.

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Midway

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This American strategy in the Pacific war saw U.S. forces conquer strategic

islands northwards toward Japan.

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Island Hopping

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This July 1945 wartime conference of the “Big Three” established that Germany would be de-

Nazified while it demanded unconditional

surrender from Japan.

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Potsdam Conference

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This was the world’s first freeway system,

built in Germany during Hitler’s rule in the

1930s.

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Autobahn

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This fascist rebel took control of Spain in the

mid-1930s with the military aid of Nazi

Germany and Fascist Italy.

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Francisco Franco

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This general became the leader of the “Free French” after France was defeated in June,

1940.

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Charles de Gaulle

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This 1928 peace agreement proclaimed “war is illegal,” thus giving Europeans a

false sense of security.

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Kellogg-Briand Pact

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This 1933 economic summit ended

unsuccessfully when the U.S. undermined it.

Hitler was very encouraged!

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London Economic

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This 1940 pact created a military alliance between Germany,

Italy, and Japan: they became known as the

“Axis Powers”

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