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64 Cards in this Set
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Spanish american war
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Preisdent Mckinley, USS Mais explodes off coast of Cuba, "Splendid little war"ends with Treaty of Paris
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George custer
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Great Sioux war, little big horn (Custer's last stand)
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Philippine insurrection
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Philippines want independence from US, led by emilio aguinaldo a school teacher with hit and run tactics
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causes of WWI
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nationalism-competition for finite resources, imperialism, arms race
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Wilhelp II
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ignores his chancellor bismarck's advice and cuts off loans to russia
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Schleifflen plan
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failure to work, greman forces moved different distances at same pace and failed to envelop the french
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battle of the marne
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French retreat, both sides build renches here, treaty of paris ended this and pushed germans back
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Battle of tannenberg
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without the airman no tannenberg-hindenberg
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Gallipoli
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French and Brits want another supply line so they attack through the dardanelle straights, fail
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this country had the largest number of aircraft at the beginning of WWI
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Germany
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the french __________ offensive in the spring of 1917 pproduced mutinies in the French Lines
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Nivelle
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The germans(Falkenheyn) attempted to "bleed France white" at ______from feb to dec 1916
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Battle of Verdun
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This treaty ended WWI between germany and russia
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Brest-Litovsk
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Battle of Jutland
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British navy superiority, German navy bottled up, must rely on subs
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Lusitania
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english passanger ship,Human sheilds
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Who replaces faulkenhein for the Germans
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Ludenhorf and Hindenberg
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who replaced nivelle?
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petain
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Passchendael offensive
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disaster, brits want to push germans away from english channel
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cambrai
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first time tanks used
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Tsar Nicholas II
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unpopular, people suffereing, concerned with wife's spiritual advisor Rasputin, forced to abdicate
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Vladmir lenin
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exiled but smuggled in and expected to topple republic in France--nov 1917 overthrew the republic in the Bolshevik revolution
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Amalgamation
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GB and F take small groups of Americans and plug their own holes, language barriers, fighting under foreign flag
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Ferdinand foch
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French cheif of staff
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pershing
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americans use as needed at brigade level, compromise with foch, commander of us expeditionary force
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St Mihel
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hugh american aircraft support, sirpower commanded by general billy mitchell
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meuse argonne
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americans successful but not an overwhelming win Battle of the Argonne Forest
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treaty that ended WWI
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Treaty of Versailles
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Rhineland
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demilitarized zone, occupied by france
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ACTS
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Air Corps Tactical School
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Trenchard/Douhet
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strategic monbing, bomb civilians
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General Hanz Von Seekt
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German who studied WWI, realized importance of technology, Tanks!!
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Miracle of dunkirk
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private boats come rescue british soldiers
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blitzkreig
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lightning war, armored mechanized war
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william churchill
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Maginot line, most fortified boarder
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battle of britain
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hitler launces massive bomb raids on GB, public shifts sympathy to GB Roosevelt begins to give aid
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Mussolini
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Dictator of italy, invaded balkans
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operation barbarossa
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invasion on ukraine, and leningrad, instils patriotism in areas where before german invadion it did not exist
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zhukov
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commander of Russian forces at moscow
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lend-lease
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US would give the Brits whatever they needed to fight the war but it would be returned,US wanted to stay officially neutral
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Manchuria
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Japan invades this then the rest of china, US sympathetic, security threat for US to Philippines...we cut japan off from necessary resources
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Battle of MIdway Island
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Japanses attack on us, 1st real historic carrier battle, USS yorktown
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operation barbarossa
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invasion on ukraine, and leningrad, instils patriotism in areas where before german invadion it did not exist
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zhukov
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commander of Russian forces at moscow
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lend-lease
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US would give the Brits whatever they needed to fight the war but it would be returned,US wanted to stay officially neutral
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Manchuria
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Japan invades this then the rest of china, US sympathetic, security threat for US to Philippines...we cut japan off from necessary resources
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Battle of MIdway Island
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Japanses attack on us, 1st real historic carrier battle, USS yorktown
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magic
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we had broken the japanese code
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operation torch
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African front, commander Dwight D Eisenhower, security of the suez canal
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battle of the atlantic
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german subs "wolfpacks" decimate atlantic shipping, civilian and military
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Meetings of yalta
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decded when germany was defeated, divied into zones of occupation by allies to de-nazi them!
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operation overlord
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D-day
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Marianas turkey shoot
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battle of the philippine sea
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Douglass macarthur
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in charge of the southern route in japan
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battle of leyte gulf
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first appearance of kamikaze pilots
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Iwo Jima
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bloodiest per capita battle, no more early warning for japanese
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operation olympic
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plan to land troops on japanese mainland
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Marianas turkey shoot
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battle of the philippine sea
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Douglass macarthur
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in charge of the southern route in japan
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battle of leyte gulf
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first appearance of kamikaze pilots
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Iwo Jima
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bloodiest per capita battle, no more early warning for japanese
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operation olympic
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plan to land troops on japanese mainland
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manhattan project
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nuclean weapon, churchill even suggests using it
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enola gay
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little boy, hiroshima
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fat man
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nagasaki
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