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What did Nazis promise for Germany?
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Create jobs, restore pol stability, keep out communists
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What happened when the Japanese tried to invade China from Manchuria?
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At first they were successful, then they attacked civilians (Rape of Namjing)
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Blitzkrieg
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Lightning warfare, rapid movement of attack
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What was est. in France?
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A puppet regime in Vichy
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Winston Churchill
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British prime minister during WWII
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Why did Japan choose to attack Euro colonies?
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Thought they would be occupied by German hostility. They received resistance from Burma and the Philippines
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United Nations
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International dispute negotiating organization. Established after WWII
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Tehran Conference
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Decision to invade Nazi- occupied France
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Yalta Conference
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Divided Germany into 4 zones
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Postdam
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USSR took East Poland, while Poles took East Germany
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Quit India Movement
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Mass civil disobedience to end British ctrl
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Convention Peoples Party (CPP)
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Opposition to British ctrl of colonial legislature of Gold Coast
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Kenya African Union (KAU)
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Leading nationalist party that promoted nonviolent protest
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Land Freedom Army
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Radical independence organization in Kenya. 1952 -> campaign of terror. 1956 -> imprisoned by British
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National Liberation Front (FLN)
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Radical nationalist movement against French in Algeria during 1950s. Guerrilla and civil war led to independence in 1962
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Why did Afrikaners in South Africa have so much leeway in the government?
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Lost to British in Anglo-Boer War and the British felt guilty and gave them permission
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Afrikaner National Party
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White majority party of South Africa that wanted independence from Britain
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apartheid
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Strict racial segregation in South Africa designed to benefit whites economically and politcally
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What area did Jews choose to call their homeland?
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Palestine
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Haganah
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1940s -> Zionist military force engaged in violent resistance to British presence in Palestine
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