Totalitarianism - a theory of government in which a single party/leader controls the economic, social, and cultural lives of the people , Joseph Stalin - his policies included state-run collective farms, which caused massive hardships for the Soviet people , Benito Mussolini - fascist leader, promoted extreme nationalism in Italy , Appeasement - policy of granting concessions in order to keep the peace , Franklin D. Roosevelt - led the U.S. through WW2, died in his fourth term in office , Anschluss - union of Germany and Austria in 1933, Neville Chamberlain - signed the Munich Pact, prime minister of Great Britain from 1937-1940, Munich Pact - became the symbol for the failure of appeasement, gave control of Sudetenland to Germany to try to avoid war , Fascism - political movement that stressed extreme nationalism and autocratic rule , Blitzkrieg - "lightening war" emphasized speed and firepower to attack enemy territory , Neutrality Act of 1939 - act that allowed nations who were at war to buy American goods & arms if they paid in cash and transported the goods on their own ships , Tripartite Pact - created an alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan , Lend-Lease Act - allowed President Roosevelt to sell or lend war supplies to any country whose defense he considered to be vital to the safety of the United States  , Hideki Tojo - Prime minister of Japan, executed after the war for war crimes , Pearl Harbor - American military based, attacked on December 7th, 1941, George Marshall - Army Chief of Staff during the war, created the plan to help Western Europe recover after the war , Women's Army Corps - U.S. Army group established during WW2 so that women could serve in non-combat roles , Bataan Death March - forced march of American and Filipino prisoners of war under brutal conditions by the Japanese military , Battle of Coral Sea - stopped the Japanese advance through the Pacific , Douglas MacArthur - Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in the pacific, accepted Japan's surrender , Unconditional Surrender - giving up completely without any concessions , Saturation bombing - tactic of dropping massive amounts of bombs in order to inflict maximum damage, Strategic bombing - tactic of dropping bombs on key political and industrial targets , Tuskegee Airmen - African-American squadron that escorted bombers in the war , Battle of Midway  - Turning point in the Pacific in favor of the Americans , Battle of the Bulge - last major German offensive, attempted to push back the Allies after the D-Day invasion, island-hopping - seizing selected Japanese-held islands in the Pacific, bypassing others, in order to get to the mainland of Japan , Nuremberg Trials - took place after the war, Nazi leaders were charged with war crimes ,

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