Chp. 20 Vocab - Part 2: WWII

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This is a type of government in which the sole focus is the nation. Everything is for the nation. Individual do not matter. There was a rise of this after WWI, especially in Italy.

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Fascism

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This was the leader of Italy during WWII.

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Benito Mussolini

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This is a unique type of government. Has only existed in one country for a short period of time, Germany. This type of government is Fascism with the addition of antisemitism.

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Nazism

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This was the leader of Germany during WWII.

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Adolf Hitler

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This was the name Hitler gave to his Germany during WWII. It is another name for "Nazi Germany" or the time in which the Nazis were in control (1933 to 1945).

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Third Reich

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This was a German tactic in WWII where for a time Germans would attack fast and swift with intense effort to do something or a large quantity.

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Blitzkrieg

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This was the leader of Japan during WWII. He was not the emperor. He was the one making the war decisions.

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Hideki Tojo

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This event happened in 1937, when the Japanese invaded China and captured a certain city. Then they surrounded the city an murder, terrorized, and tortured hundreds of thousands of Chinese people. It is one of the worse atrocities committed in WWII.

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Rape of Nanking

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This was the Prime Minister of England at the time of WWII.

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Winston Churchill

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This was the genocide committed by the Nazis in WWII. It resulted in over 11 million deaths, 6 million in which were Jewish people.

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Holocaust