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|[[Adolf Hitler]]
|Leader of the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers Party) AKA Nazis. During WW2 he was known as "der Führer" or the leader of Germany.
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|[[The Enigma]]
|The Enigma was a cipher used by the Axis in WWII. The German Enigma was thought at the time to be unbreakable until a 27 year old polish mathematician cracked it in 1937.
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|[[The Manhattan Project]]
|One day before the attack at pearl harbor, American scientists started the construction of an Atom bomb. The Project was named the Manhattan Project because it was started in Manhattan.
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|[[The Holocaust]]
|The Germans blamed the Jews for all of Germanys problems. In 1935 a law was past to prevent Jews from holding Government offices. It all went down hill from there. Jews were eventually killed and sent to concentration camps for just being a Jew.
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|[[Mussolini]]
|Benito Mussolini founded Italy’s Fascist Party, emphasizing the need to improve Italy’s economy and its military. In October 1922, the Fascists protested in Rome, causing the King to make Mussolini leader of Italy. He then made it illegal to strike thinking this would make the economy bounce back.
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|[[Fascism]]
|Fascists believe that all actions should be done for the good of the state. Fascism is a totalitarian economic and political ideology that came to dominate the social and political systems of Italy under Benito Mussolini and Germany under Adolf Hitler.
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