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32 Cards in this Set
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NAZI?
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political party that dominated Germany while Hitler was in power
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Anit-semitism
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prejudice against jews
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Kristallnacht??
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Night of Broken Glass November 9, 1938
thousands of Jewish synagogues and buisnesses destroyed by the brown coats |
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Areas taken by Germany before WWII? (4)
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Rhineland, Austria, Sudetenland, Czechoslouvakia,
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Munich Conference?
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British tell Hitler that he can keep the sudetenland if he would leave the rest of Czecholosovakia
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Blitzkrieg? 3 waves?
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"lightning war"
luftwaffe-air force, panzers-tanks, infantry |
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Who surrendered in 6 weeks?
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french
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Axis Powers?
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Germany Italy Japan
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Allies?
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Great Britian, Soviet Union, United States,
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3 theaters?
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europe, pacific, north africa
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Battle of Britian? (2)
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fought entirly in the air, British slow down German
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December 7, 1941?
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Jappanese attack Pearl Harbor
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Why did the Germans invade North Africa?
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oild from middle east, Suez canal
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Afrika Korps?
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name iof the German army in North Africa, leader Rommel "Desert Fox"
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Battle of El Alamein?
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British stops German advancement in North Africa
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Lend-Lease Act (1941)?
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we would give the supplis and they would pay us after the war and return undamaged merchandise
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Battle of Stalingrad?
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6th army (best), Germany advance in Russia is stopped
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Battle of Midway?
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stopped Japanese advance in the Pacific
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island hoping?
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US strategy in the Pacfic in WW2
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1942??? JAPS
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US govt. forces 100,000 Japanese americans to interment camps in US interior
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D-Day????
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Operation overlord, June 6, 1944 (allied invasion of France)
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Battle of the Bulge?
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bloodiest American Battle, laste german battle of WW2
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V-E Day???
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Victory over Europe, May 8, 1945
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Kamikaza?
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Jappanes suicide bombers (volunteers)
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Manhattan Project??
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code name for US devlopment of the atomic bomb
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First japanes bombing??
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August 6, 1945- Hiroshima
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2nd bombing?
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August 9, 1945- Nagasaki
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V-J Day???
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September 2, 1945 tt
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Genocide??
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systamatic destruction of a group of people based on ethnicity, religon, or gender
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Holocaust??
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murder of 12 million people by Germans during WWII (6 million Jews)
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Ghetto??
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run down part of town
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Aushowitz?
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largest death camp
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