WWII & Holocaust Flashcards

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Where the Nazis had major annual rallies

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Nuremberg 

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This is the term that means unfairly blaming a person or group for your problems

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Scapegoating

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These 3 countries were the Axis Powers during World War II

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Germany, Italy, Japan

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 Leader of the Soviet Union during World War II. He sent his opponents to the gulags.

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Joseph Stalin

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Leader of Fascist Italy. He told his people he'd make Italy a powerful empire again. He built up the military, silenced anyone who disagreed with him, and basically made himself a dictator. 

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Mussolini 

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Region in France where the D-Day landings took place on June 6, 1944.

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Normandy

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A set of 1935 anti-Semitic laws in Nazi Germany that stripped the Jewish people of their citizenship, and barred them from marrying non-Jews. 

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Nuremberg Laws

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Germany invading this country on September 1, 1939 is considered the start of World War II. 

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Poland

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Hitler demanded that this German-speaking region of Czechoslovakia be given to Germany; the British let him have it in an attempt to avoid war. 

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Sudetenland

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This is the term that describes when you try to make someone happy in hopes that they won't demand anything more in the future. Unfortunately, this approach did not work for British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who thought that if he let Hitler take the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia that Hitler wouldn't want to take over anything else. 

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Appeasement