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| Living space/room to expand. What Hitler wanted for the German people. |
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| Germany, Italy, and Japan. Began in 1937 when all three countries signed the Anti-Comintern pact to oppose international communism. The name came from the "Rome, Berlin, Tokyo Axis," a pledge of cooperation between the three nations. |
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| Towns that Jews in Nazi-occupied countries were forced to live in. |
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| "Lightning war." Germany's military technique: a massive air strike at a directed area of the enemy lines, followed by a reinforced rapid massive mechanized attach at the point of the air strike. |
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| Made between Russia and Germany in 1939. Each country pledged to remain neutral if the other was attacked. |
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| The official secret police of Nazi Germany. |
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| Began in 1940. An air war between the British and the Germans for supremacy of the skies over England. The industrial cities of southern England, including London, were subjected to nightly bombings called "the Blitz." |
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| The air force of the United Kingdom. Helped win the Battle of Britain. |
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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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| President of the United States during WWII. |
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| A statement between Britain and the USA establishing a vision for a post-WWII world. Drafted in 1941, before the USA entered the war. |
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| Prime Minister of Britain during WWII. |
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