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33 Cards in this Set
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What is the organization that formed at the end of WWII in order to settle world problems
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United Nations
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Nazism was defeated but what was a growing problem
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Communism
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Communist leader of China after WWII
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Mao Zedong
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Country that was controlled by Soviet Union in the north and US in the south
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Korea
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Hitler and Stalin made a secret agreement to divide what country
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Poland
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Nazi's last European enemy
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Japan
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Russia
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communism
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Germany
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Nazism
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Italy
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Fascism
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Japan
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Militarism
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Adolf Hitler
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Nazism
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Tojo
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Militarism
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Mussolini
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Fascism
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Stalin
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Communism
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Communism
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government takes over businesses, homes and land
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Fascism
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people own property without any freedoms
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Nazism
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leader is all powerful and more important than the people of the country
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President of US when US entered WWII
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Pearl Harbor was bombed when
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Dec. 7, 1941
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June 6, 1944 is called
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D-Day
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Holocaust
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murder of many Jews and others
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WWII took place from
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1939-1945
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Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII
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Sir Winston Churchill
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Germany, Italy and Japan were called
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Axis Powers
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Those that fought against Germany were called
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The Allies
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US dropped atomic bombs on
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Japan
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Concentration Camps were
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prison camps of Germany
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Name the big four
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Stalin, Churchill, FD Roosevelt, and Chiang Kai-shek
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who said "I shall return"
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Douglas Mac Arthur
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Communist built wall in 1961 to divide
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Berlin
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Israel became a nation in
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May of 1948
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end of WWII small country was divided
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Korea
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President Truman developed a foreign policy to keep American troops in country for defense and to prevent spread of communism
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Containment
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