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Mussolini
He was part of the Fascist Party, He also trumpeted nationalism and promised to make Italy great again. -
Joseph Stalin
He took Lenin's place as the head of the Communist Party. He then attempted to transform the Soviet Union into an industrial power which caused millions of deaths. -
Adolf Hitler
He led the Nazi Party and he was also a failed artist. His most piercing criticisms were of the communist and Jews. -
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Hitler's Control
Hitler and his Nazi Party controlled the country through a dictatorship. Under Hitler's rule, Germany was transformed into a totalitarian state that controlled nearly all aspects of life via Gleichschaltung legal process -
Japanese Aggression
The Japanese invaded China to take control over major Chinese railroad link and coastal areas. They did this because Japan was very poor in natural resources -
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WWII
A war fought between the Allied powers and the Axis powers. It was the deadliest war in all of human history with around 70 million people killed. -
Neutrality Act of 1939
This act allowed nations to buy goods and arms in the US if they paid cash and carried the merchandise to their own ships. It was for cash and carry provisions. -
Fall of France
France had fallen to Germany after they captured Northern France -
Battle of Britain
It was a fight between Britain and Germany in the air because they were protecting the United Kingdom -
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The Holocaust
It was a genocide during WWII in which Nazi Germany systematically murdered Jews. Millions of other people that Hitler did not like were killed as well. All Jewish people were eventually brought into concentration camps. -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese fighter pilots attacked the American naval base in Hawaii. -
Oil and Embargo
We stopped Japan from getting oil so then they retaliated by attacking us with the bomb -
Bataan Death March
Japanese armies forced Allied troops and mainly the Americans to be forced to walk thousand of miles to their death. -
Battle of Midway Island
A big naval battle that took place after the attack on Pearl Harbor. -
Battle of Stalingrad
It was a turning point in the war because if the Allied troops hadn't won that then they might not have won the war. -
D-Day
D-Day was the allied invasion of Normandy, France. The purpose of this invasion was to take back German controlled Northern France. -
Yalta Conference
Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt met to plan the future after the war. -
V-E Day
V-E Day means victory in Europe day meaning the fighting is over in Europe -
Allied Manhattan Project
They had successfully detonated an atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert -
Atomic Bomb
Harry Truman made the decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The dropping of the bombs killed at least 129,000 people.
