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What is the Munich Agreement
This 1938 agreement allowed Nazi Germany to annex the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
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Who is Adolf Hitler?
He became Chancellor of Germany in 1933.
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What is the Hitler Youth
In Nazi Germany, this youth organisation prepared boys for military service
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What is the Weimar Republic
This was the democratic government in Germany before Hitler’s rise
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What is D-Day
This military operation, launched on June 6, 1944, marked the beginning of the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control.
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Who is Benito Mussolini?
This Italian leader founded the Fascist Party in 1919.
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What is collective farms
Under Stalin, this group of farms replaced private ownership
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What is the New Deal
Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to recover from the Great Depression.
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What is leaders of WW2
He was the British Prime Minister during most of World War II and is famous for his wartime speeches.
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What is the Munich Beer Hall Putsch
This event in 1923 was Hitler’s failed attempt to seize power in Munich.
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What is fight
Mussolini’s slogan promised this for Italy: "Believe, Obey, ____."
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What is Appeasement
In Britain, this policy aimed to avoid war with Hitler in the 1930s.
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What is the Wannsee Conference
This 1942 conference laid out the Nazi plan for the "Final Solution" to the Jewish Question.
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What are the 5 year plans
Stalin implemented this system to rapidly industrialise the Soviet Union.
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What is the Gestapo
This was the name of Hitler’s secret police.
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What is Republicans and Nationalists
The Spanish Civil War was fought between these two groups
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What is neutrality
This term described Ireland’s policy of staying out of World War II.
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What is economic instability and fear of communism
These two factors helped fascist regimes rise to power in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s.
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What are the Show Trials
In Stalin’s USSR, these were public confessions followed by executions or imprisonment.
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What is Fianna Fáil?
Éamon de Valera’s political party that dominated Irish politics in the 1930s.
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