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39 Cards in this Set
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September 1, 1939
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German invasion of Poland
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December 7, 1941
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, America enters the war
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"December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy..."
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FDR, fireside chat
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Atlantic theatre: October 1942
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Battle of El Alamein
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"Up to Alamein we survived. After Alamein we conquered."
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Winston Churchill
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Atlantic Theatre: September 1942
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Battle of Stalingrad
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Atlantic Theatre: June 6, 1944
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D-Day invasion of Normandy
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Atlantic Theatre: Winter 1944
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Battle of the Bulge
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Pacific Theatre: January 1942
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Bataan Death March
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Pacific Theatre: June 1942
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Battle of Midway, turning point of war in Pacific
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Pacific Theatre: Island Hopping
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Admiral Nimiz used this strategy of moving from island to island rather than invading every Japanese held island
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Why was island hopping used?
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The loss of life would have been great taking each island
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What else was the D Day invasion of Normandy called?
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Operation Overlord
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How many troops did Germany lose during the Battle of Stalingrad?
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Approximately 300,000
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Pacific theatre: October 1944
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Battle of Leyte Gulf
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Battle of Leyte Gulf
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Proved to be the largest naval battle battle in history. The USA won a smashing victory, wiping out Japan's fleet once and for all.
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Kamikaze
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Japanese suicide pilot
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Casablanca conference
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Churchill and Roosevelt agreed to continue fighting until they won an unconditional surrender from the Axis powers.
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Date of Casablanca conference
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January 1943
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Tehran Meeting
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The big three met for the first time. Discussed ways to defeat Germany.
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Date of Tehran Meeting
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Late 1943
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Yalta Conference
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The big three helped to shape the postwar world
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How did the big three help shape the postwar world?
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Establishing new borders, helping set up new governments
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August 6, 1945
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the B-29 (Enola Gay) dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima
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August 9, 1945
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Second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki
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Nuremburg Trials
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Established an important principal that individuals are ultimately responsible for their own actions... even in times of war
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May 8, 1945
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V-E Day
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August 15, 1945
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V-J Day
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When was Japan's actual surrender?
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September 2, 1945
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June 1947
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Marshall Plan
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Marshall Plan
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Proposed that the US begin a program of massive economic aid to Europe
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"I believe it must be the policy of the US to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures."
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Harry S. Truman, Truman Doctrine
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WWII ends...
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Cold War begins.
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Joseph McCarthy
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McCarthyism
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McCarthyism
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Used to describe McCarthy's practice of advancing one's political career by making unproven accusations of disloyalty.
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Sputnik
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World's first space satellite
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JFK (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
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The New Frontier, Cuban Missile Crisis, Bay of Pigs, Assassination
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LBJ (Lyndon Baines Johnson)
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Great Society, Vietnam, Credibility Gap
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Nixon
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Vietnamization, Watergate Scandal
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