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Benito Mussolini
Italian dictator who rose to power in the wake of World War I as a leading proponent of Facism. Originally a revolutionary Socialist, he forged the paramilitary Fascist movement in 1919 and became prime minister in 1922. He then went on to become dictator of Italy in 1925. Until his death in 1943. -
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Dictator
A ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained power by force. Hitler, Mussolini, and Emperor Hirohito -
Franklin D. Rossevelt
Roosevelt, who was determined that Britain not be defeated, took advantage of the rapid shifts of public opinion. The fall of Paris shocked American opinion, and isolationist sentiment declined. A consensus was clear that military spending had to be dramatically expanded. There was no consensus on how much the US should risk war in helping Britain. -
Adolf Hitler
He was appointed chancellor of a coalition government of the NSDAP-DNVP Party. The SA and SS led torchlight parades throughout Berlin. In the coalition government, three members of the cabinet were Nazis: Hitler, Wilhelm Frick and Hermann Goring. With Germans who opposed Nazism failing to unite against it, Hitler soon moved to consolidate absolute power. -
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Fascism
An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. Hitlers overall idealism during his dictatorship. -
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Nazism
The ideology and practice of the German Nazi Party and state. It is sometimes applied to other far-right groups. Usually characterised as a form of fascism that incorporates scientific racism and antisemitism, Nazism arose from pan-Germanism, the Völkisch German nationalist movement and the anti-communist Freikorps after World War I. -
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U.S. declares Neutrality
The U.S. Neutrality Act is passed: the French and British may buy arms, but on a strictly cash basis. American isolationists find the act an "outrage." -
Rape of Nanking
Japanese troops raped and pillaged the village of Nanking, not only raping over 20,000 women, but also stabing babys and using
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Propaganda
Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. -
Winston Churchill
After the outbreak of the Second World War on 3 September 1939, the day Britain declared war on Germany, Churchill was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty and a member of the War Cabinet, as he had been during the first part of the First World War. When they were informed, the Board of the Admiralty sent a signal to the Fleet: "Winston is back." In this position, he proved to be one of the highest-profile ministers during the so-called "Phoney War," when the only noticeable action wa -
Lend Lease Act
This act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed "vital to the defense of the United States." -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese were angry about the U.S. ending trading with them so they lauched a massive attack against our navy. In Pearl harbor hundreds of Japanese naval bombers blew up or sunk every ship in the harbor and slaughtered thousands of toops and citizens. -
Women’s Roles in WWII
After the men went to war, women decided to step up and take the factory, and industry jobs that the men used to have. They also had to take care of chldren while holding a job and overall the women of America help down the fort while the solders were away. The women also were nurses and red cross members during the war. -
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Japanese-American Interment Camps
The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States was the forced relocation and incarceration during World War II of between 110,000 and 120,000people of Japanese ancestry who lived on the Pacific coast in camps in the interior of the country. -
Office of War Information
A United States government agency created during World War II to consolidate existing government information services and deliver propaganda both at home and abroad. -
War Bonds and Rationing
In the spring of 1942, the Food Rationing Program was set into motion. Rationing would deeply affect the American way of life for most. The federal government needed to control supply and demand. Rationing was introduced to avoid public anger with shortages and not to allow only the wealthy to purchase commodities. -
Victory Gardens
Also called war gardens or food gardens for defense, were vegetable, fruit, and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Germany during World War I and World War II. -
Audie Murphy
One of the most decorated American combat soldiers of World War II, single handedly holding off an entire company of German soldiers for an hour at the Colmar Pocket in France. Also After the landing on yellow beach he was wounded, two Germans exited a house about 91m away and appeared to surrender, Murphy's best friend responded to them, and they shot and killed him. Murphy advanced alone on the house under direct fire. He wounded two, killed six, and took eleven prisoner. -
firebombing of dresden
An attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, that took place in the final months of the Second World War in the European Theatre. In four raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 722 heavy bombers of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and 527 of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices on the city. -
Vernon Baker
He was awarded the medal of honor for his actions on April 5 and 6, 1945 near Viareggio, Italy. He died in 2010 at the age of 90. On the morning of April 5, Baker participated in an attack on the German stronghold of Castle Aghinolfi. During the assault, Baker led his heavy weapons platoon through German army defenses to within sight of the castle, personally destroying a machine gun position, two observation posts, two bunkers, and a network of German telephone lines along the way. -
Harry S. Truman
Truman's brief vice-presidency was relatively uneventful. Roosevelt rarely contacted him, even to inform him of major decisions; the President and Vice President met alone together only twice during their time in office. Truman had been vice president for 82 days when President Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945. That afternoon, Truman presided over the Senate as usual. When he was informed of the president's death. He was also the president that decieded to drop the a-bomb on the Japanese.
