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Book Hitler wrote in jail. Est the Nazism beliefs. Stated white, blue-eyed, blonde-haired Aryans were master race, and secure the land on Earth that was meant for Germans.
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Achieved this efficiency by crushing all opposition and by making Italy a totalitarian state. Established fascist party with his powerful speaking when middle and upper classes were demanding strong leadership. Played on fears of economic collapse and communism.
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Made agricultural and industrial growth the prime economic goals of the Soviet Union. Abolished all privately owned farms and replaced them with collectives—large government-owned farms, each worked by hundreds of families. Stalin moved to transform the Soviet Union into a great industrial power. Outlined the first of several “five-year plans." All economic activity was placed under state management. 1937, Became the world’s second-largest industrial power.
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Japanese took over it for natural resources and left the League of Nations.
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Joined National Socialist German Worker's party. He promised to bring Germany out of chaos and est. the Third Reich after being appointed prime minister.
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Unemployed men who joined Hitler's private army aka Brown Shirts.
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Third German Empire that Hitler stated would last thousands of years.
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Hitler pulled Germany out of the League of Nations and began a military buildup in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. A year later, he sent troops into the Rhineland, a German region bordering France and Belgium that was demilitarized as a result of the Treaty of Versailles. The League did nothing to stop Hitler.
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League’s response was an ineffective economic boycott. By May 1936, Ethiopia had fallen. In desperation, Haile Selassie, the ousted Ethiopian emperor, appealed to the League for assistance. Nothing was done.
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Rebelled against the Spanish republic. Spanish Civil War began, and Spain est. him as a fascist dictator.
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Union with Austria, rest of the world did nothing.
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Daladier and Chamberlain turned the Sudetenland over to Germany without a single shot being fired.
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German and Italy formed a close relationship.
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Tensions rose over Poland, but Stalin signed a pact with Hitler. Divided Poland and no attacks on each other.
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Lightning war. Fast tanks and more powerful aircraft to take the enemy by surprise and then quickly crush all opposition with overwhelming force.
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Major fighting was over in three weeks, long before France, Britain, and their allies could mount a defense. In the last week of fighting, the Soviet Union attacked Poland from the east, grabbing some of its territory. The portion Germany annexed in western Poland contained almost two-thirds of Poland’s population. By the end of the month, Poland had ceased to exist and World War II had begun.
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Sitting war
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Hitler launched a surprise invasion of Denmark and Norway in order to protect freedom and independence. But in truth, Hitler planned to build bases along the coasts to strike at Great Britain.
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Hitler turned against the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, which were overrun. The phony war had ended.
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Germans marched right through the Maginot Line straight to Paris. trapped almost 400,000 British and French soldiers as they fled to the beaches of Dunkirk on the French side of the English Channel. In less than a week, a makeshift fleet of fishing trawlers, tugboats,
river barges, pleasure craft—more than 800 vessels in all—ferried about 330,000 British, French, and Belgian troops to safety
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A Nazi-controlled puppet government head.
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Hitler tried to gain control of skies by taking down Britain's Royal Air Force. RAF beat them and Hitler called it off.
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The Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor with the expectation that once Americans had experienced Japan’s power, they would shrink from further conflict. They thought wrong.
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Forced into a camp, called for conviction and was denied. After he called for conviction again, and had his name cleared.
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Roosevelt would lend or lease arms and other supplies to “any country whose defense was vital to the United States.”
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Confinement of all Japanese-Americans in Hawaii.
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Hitler wanted to prevent food and war materials from reaching Great Britain and Soviet Union. However they used convoys.
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Convoys were groups of ships traveling together for mutual protection. The convoys were escorted across the Atlantic by destroyers equipped with sonar for detecting submarines underwater. They were also accompanied by airplanes that used radar to spot U-boats on the ocean’s surface.
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Germans were taking it over, but after winter came, Soviets rushed tanks and rekt them.
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Invasion of Axis-controlled North Africa, commanded by American General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Some 107,000 Allied troops, the great majority of them Americans, landed in Casablanca, Oran, and Algiers in North Africa. From there they sped eastward, chasing the Afrika Korps led by General Erwin Rommel, the legendary Desert Fox. After months of heavy fighting, the last of the Afrika Korps surrendered.
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Women could volunteer in noncombat positions.
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OPA fought inflation by freezing prices on most goods. Congress also raised income tax rates and extended the tax to millions of people who had never paid it before. The higher taxes reduced consumer demand on scarce goods by leaving workers with less to spend.
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To get resources to win the war. WPB decided which companies would convert from peacetime to wartime production and allocated raw material to key industries. Also organized drives to collect scrap iron, tin cans, paper, rags, and cooking fat for recycling into war goods. Across America, children scoured attics, cellars, garages, vacant lots, and back alleys, looking for useful junk.
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Hitler was determined to stop the Allies in Italy rather than fight on German soil. One of the hardest battles the Allies encountered in Europe was fought less than 40 miles from Rome. Lasted four months and left about 25,000 Allied and 30,000 Axis casualties. German armies continued to put up strong resistance. The effort to free Italy did not succeed until 1945, when Germany itself was close to collapse.
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Allied invasion on Germany.
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German tank divisions broke through weak American defenses along an 80-mile front. Hitler hoped that a victory would split American and British forces and break up Allied supply lines. Tanks drove 60 miles into Allied territory, creating a bulge in the lines. Germans were pushed back and could nothing but retreat for the rest of the war.
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Shot himself and his wife swallowed poison. He blamed his generals and the Jews.
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Victory in Europe Day.
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While posing for a portrait in Warm Springs, Georgia, Roosevelt
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Code name for research across the country
