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98 Cards in this Set
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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NAACP lawyer
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Thurgood Marshall
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ended school segregation
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Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas
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bringing races together
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integration
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upheld segregation laws
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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prominent labor leader
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Philip Randolph
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enforced Brown vs. Board of Education
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Dwight Eisenhower
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Rosa Pakrs
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attended UCLA
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Jackie Robinson
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fovernor of Arkansas
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Orval Faubus
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The islands of Wake and Guam were American bases taken by the Japanese early int he war
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True
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The Allied troops defending Bataan surrendered to the Germans
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False
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The Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway occurred in 1942
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True
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The atomic bomb was tested in Manhattan
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False
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JAmes "Jimmy" Doolittle was famously remembered for piloting the plane that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan
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False
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The Allied commander in teh Philippines was
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Douglas MacArthur
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The first major Japanese defeat wsa the
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Battle of Midway
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What was the biggest battle in naval history in which most of the Japanese fleet was destroyed in 1944?
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Battle of Leyte Gulf
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Whose warning prompted FDR to begin working ont he atomic bomb?
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Albert Einstein
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What was important about capturing Guam in 1944?
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The use of its airfield
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What victory prevented the Germans from capturing the Suez Canal?
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El Alamein
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For 900 days the Germans surrounded
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Leningrad
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Dwight D. Eisenhower landed his Allied troops on the Normandy coast on June 6, 1944, also known as
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D-Day
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Who became president in 1945?
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Harry S. Truman
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Which of the following event is an example of genocide
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the Holocaust
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Which of the following is not part of Italy?
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Normandy
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Who was known as the "Desert Fox" for his success in desert warfare?
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Erwin Rommel
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Which of the following were European cities liberated by the allies in 1944?
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Rome and Paris
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The battles described in section 26.4 took place mostly in :
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North Africa, Italy, France and Russia
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Whose troops surrounded Berlin near the end of the war?
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Soviet
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Hitler was able to gain the support of the German people because of their anger over the Versailles treaty
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True
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Many Japanese felt that the solution to Japan's economic problems was to expand Japan's control in Asia
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True
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The Japanese invaded neighboring countries in Asia during teh 1930s while Hitler invaded his neighbors in Europe
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True
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The attack on Pearl Harbor resulted in Congress declaring war on Japan
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True
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During the Battle of the Bulge, Allied forces sent forces deep into Germany, creating a bulge in German lines
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False
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American Troops were forced to retreat to the rugged Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines
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True
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Concentration camps are prison camps for civilians
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True
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The islands of Wake and Guam were American bases taken by the Japanese early int he war
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True
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The Allied troops defending Bataan surrendered
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True
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Hitler was a Communist
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False
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The Battle of the Coarl Sea and the Battle of Midway occured in 1942
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True
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With over one million men fighting, the Battle of the Bulge was the largest battle on the Eastern Front in Europe
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False
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Chester Nimitz ordered the American carrier force to ambush the Japanese at Midway
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True
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The USS Enterprise survived both the Battle of Midway and the Battle of the Coral Sea
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True
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The U.S. bombing strrategy that killed hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians was used to avoid hundreds of thousands of American troops being killed ina full-scale invasion of Japan
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True
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The Italian form of government built on exteme nationalism and racism was
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facism
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Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during Wrold War II?
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Joseph Stalin
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The Soviet German Non-Agression Pact freed Adolp Hitler to invade
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Poland
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Which country was the first to use the Lend-Lease Act?
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Great Britain
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Where was the wrst defeat in the United States' military history?
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Pearl Harbor
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Ther German general in command of North Africa was
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Erwin Rommel
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Douglas MacARthur was the commander of the Allied forces in
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the Pacific
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Which country was not part of the Allied Powers?
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Germany
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What country was not part of the Axis Powers?
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United States
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Who was the commander of the Allied forces in Europe?
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The two commanders in charge of he "island hopping" stratege were:
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MacArthur and Nimitz
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Adolf Hitler established a single party that suppressed oppositon, making Germany a
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totalitarian state
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Manchuria was invaded by
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Japan
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How was Sudetenland turned over to Germany?
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at the Munich Conference
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France and Great Britain decalred war on Germany after teh invasion of
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Poland
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After the collapse of Belgium in 1940, to where did allied troops retreat in order to be evacuated?
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Dunkirk
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After the fall of France, all that stood in the way of Adolf Hitler's domination of Europe was
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Great Britain
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Frustrated by his failure in Great Britain, Hitler launced an attack on
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the Soviet Union
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American neutrality ended after the attack on
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the United States
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for 900, days the Germans surrounded
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Leningrad
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The first major Japanese defeat was teh
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Battle of Midway
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What was the biggest battle in naval history?
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Battle of Leyte Gulf
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Which of the following was NOT a cause of World War II?
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Aggressive American military operations
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Artillery is a military unit consisting mostly of :
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Heavy cannons
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What was the string of German guns and bunkers built alonf the European coast during German occupation?
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Atlantic Wall
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What was Phase 1 of the D-Day invasion plan?
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Paratroops land behind enemy lines
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What was the most difficult and costly beach to secure during the D-Day invasion?
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Omaha
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Which contry's troops were NOT responsible for securing a beach in teh D-Day invasion?
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France
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In the Battle of the Bulge, what city did Patton's troops race to save from the Germans?
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Bastogne
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What were the two major 'theaters of operation" or regions where campaigns were fought between the Axis powers and the Allies in World War II?
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European Theater and pacific Theater
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Which battle was a battle between the RAF and the Luftwaffe?
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the Battle of Britain
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Which battle was the first American land offensive in the Pacific
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Guadalcanal
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Which battle was the last major battle in Europe, in which the Allies crused the final German offensive of the war?
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the Battle of the Bulge
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Which of the following was the largest invasion in history?
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D-Day
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Which of hte following battles was one of the last American victories in thee island hopping campaign?
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Iwo Jima
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Which of the following did NOT invove a beach assault?
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Bastogne
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In what country did Patton's troops NOT fight?
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Russia
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Italian Director
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Mussolini
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Became president in 1945
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Truman
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Fascist
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hitler
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Advised against Appeasement
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Churchill
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the "Desert Fox"
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Rommel
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responsible for Pearl Harbor
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Tojo
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Communist
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Stalin
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allied tank commander
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Patton
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lightning war
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blitzkreig
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concentration camp
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Auschwitz
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hatred of Jews
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anti-Semitism
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led to atomic bomb
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Manhattan Project
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pledged to defeat Hitler
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Atlantic Charter
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led to D-Day
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Operation Overlord
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favored by isolationists
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Neutrality Acts
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allowed Hitler to dominate Europe
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appeasement
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