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Who is Adolf Hitler
Fascist dictator of Germany from 1933-1945.
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What is Pearl Harbor
Japan launched a surprise attack on this American naval base in Hawaii at the end of 1941, thus entering the U.S. into World War II.
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What is Western Democracy
Form of government. The people elect their leaders & business is privately owned in a free-market.
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What is The Fourteen Points Speech
Wilson’s ground rules for peace after WWI; fundamental problems, boundary changes, & world peace-keeping body.
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Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt
President from 1933-1945. He is known for leading the U.S. out of the Great Depression and through World War II until his death.
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Who is Winston Churchill
British prime minister during the majority of World War II.
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What are Concentration Camps
Labor and extermination sites in German occupied areas of Europe where Jews and other minorities suffered and died.
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What is Capitalism
Form of economy. Business is privately owned in a free-market.
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What is The Treaty of Versailles
Peace treaty that ended the war between Germany and the Allies. It was quite severe toward Germany.
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Who is Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity.
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Who is Josef Stalin
Communist dictator of the Soviet Union from 1924-1953.
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What is Trench Warfare
Form of war characterized by fighting from ditches with neither side being able to substantially advance on the enemy.
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What is Communism
Form of government. A dictator rules the people & business is owned and run by the government.
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What is The Zimmermann Note
Telegram by Germany that encouraged Mexico to join WWI against the U.S. by promising to give it American land after the war.
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Who is Harry S. Truman
Roosevelt’s VP that became pres. when Roosevelt died. He made the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan in order to end WWII.
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Who is Benito Mussolini
Fascist dictator of Italy from 1922-1943.
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What is Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Japan
The two Japanese cities that had atomic bombs dropped on them by the U.S. in an effort to quickly end WWII.
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What is Socialism
Form of economy. Business is owned and run by the government.
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What is The Munich Pact
A 1938 agreement that gave Germany possession of western Czechoslovakia, supposedly the last territorial demand by Hitler.
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Who is Woodrow Wilson
President of the United States from 1913-1921, during the time of the Mexican Revolution and World War I.
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Who is Vladimir Lenin
Leader of revolutionary, communist, Russian group known as the Bolsheviks which took the nation; established the USSR.
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What is The Katyn Forest Massacre
Mass execution of 22,000 Polish people carried out by the Soviet secret police in 1940.
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What is Fascism
Form of government. A dictator rules the people & business is privately owned in a free-market.
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What is The Nuremburg Trials
The Nazi war crimes trials took place here after World War II.
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Who is Franz Ferdinand
Archduke of Austria-Hungary that was assassinated in Yugoslavia. This incident basically started World War I.
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