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Facism: Stressed nationalism and placed the interests of the state above those of individuals . Mussolini marched on Rome with thousands of people they called "Black Shirts"
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Stalin is translated to mean "Man of Steel". Wanted to transform Soviet Union from a backward rural nation into a great industrial power.
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6 million Germans were unemployed and many of those people had joined Hitlers army as their last hope. Nazis became the strongest political party in Germany as Hitler became chancellor.
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Since America continued to have growing isolationism it eventually had an impact on president Roosevelts foreign policy. Neutrality Acts: The first two acts outlawed arms sales or loans to nation at war
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Led by Francisco Franco. Revolts broke out over Spain and the Civil war in Spain had begun. 3000 Americans had formed the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Lost almost 500000 lives and Francos vitory led him to be Spains facist dictator.
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Translatted to "Night of Broken Glass". The Nazis attacked homes,bussinesses, and synagouges across Germany and Austria. Around 100 Jews were killed and around 100 more were injured. 30,000 Jews were arrested and 100 plus synagouges were burned down.
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Luftwaffe, German airforce came over Poland dropping bombs everywhere over cities, railoads, etc. Blitzkreig; also known as the lighting war.
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This war was also known as the sitzkreig war. This war went on for the next few months after Blitzkreig in Poland
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African Americans working in skilled jobs rose from 16 to 30 percent,
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The Germans began to assemble an invasion fleet along the French coast. The lluftwaffe began making bombing runs over Britain. August 15th approximatley 2000 German planes ranged over Britain.
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Roosevelt wanted to break the tradition of being a President for two terms and ran for his third. Roosevelt was reelected with nearly 55 percent of the votes cast
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Isolationists argued against the plan. Britain had no more money to spend and Roosevelt tried to help by making this plan.
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A German submarine fired on the U.S destroyer Greer in the Atlantic. Killed more than 100 sailors when Germna U-boats sank the U.S destroyer Reuben James
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That morning a bomber followed by 180 war planes launched from six aircraft carriers. They claimed "Air raid on Pearl Harbor, This is not a drill." The Japeneese had killed 2403 Americans in less than 2 hours and wounded 1178 more people. They damaged and sunk 21 ships and 300 of their aircrat was damaged or destroyed.
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President Roosevelt taked to all the people of America and said "Yesterday will be a day which will live in infamy." Congress had then declared war against Japan. Germany and Italy had declared war on the United States three days later.
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President Roosevelt spent three weeks working on war plans.
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Each camp has massive chambers that the people would walk into and they never knew if they were going to get a real shower or get "showered" in gas. They had a few different types of camps and they were work camps or death camps and Aushwitz was one of the largest death camps that they had
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Individual surface attacks by U-boats became known as the wolf pack attack. They succesfully sank 350,000 tons of shipments in only one month
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OPA (Office of Price Administration); they fought inflation by freezing prices on most goods
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Daring raid on Tokyo and other Japenese cities. James Doolittle led 16 bombers in the attack
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Five-day battle. Fighting was done by airplanes.
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Japans next attack. The Allies succeded though and stopped them
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German army had nightly bombing raids over the city.
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Shortly after midnight three divisions parachuted behind German lines. Early that morning thousands and thousands of seaborn soldiers arived. That was the beginning of the war we now know as D-Day.
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They found 1000 starving prisioners who were struggling to stay alive, the worlds largest crematorium, and a storehouse containing 80,000 shoes this was all found in one of the concentration camps
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Tanks drove 60 miles into Allied territory creating a bulge in the lines that gave this desperate last ditch of offense hense the name "Battle of the bulge"
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Marines invaded Okinawa. released more than 1900 attacks. They sunk 30 ships damaging more than 300 and killing almost 5000 seamen.
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While posing for a picture in Warm Springs Georgia he had a stroke and died right there on the scene. Then Vice President Harry S. Truman became our 33rd President
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A huge atomic bomb was released. Nicknamed "Little Boy". Not even a minute later the entire city was covered in dust and no buildings remained. Three days later another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki and that one was nicknamed "Fat Boy".
