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40 Cards in this Set
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Kellogg Briand Treaty
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Renounced agressive war, prohibiting its use as an instrument of national policy.
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Washington Conference
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First strategic planning between heads of UK and US.
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Adolf Hitler
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Tyrant and hater of Jews extraordinaire.
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Nye Committee
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Investigated munitions facilities from World War One.
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America First Committee
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DID NOT want war.
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War Production Board
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Converted peacetime factories into factories to make weapons, planes, tanks, etc.
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Fair Employment Practices Committee
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A committee started by FDR to pacify the african americans who wanted to march on Washington for fair employment.
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“Zoot Suit” Riots
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The Marines and some more sailors killed young latino men just because they could.
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D-Day
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The day that the huge force of Americans and British landed on Normandy beach.
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Manhattan Project
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The scientific research project that led to the invention of the atom bomb.
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Los Alamos
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The secret facility where the Manhattan project was undertaken.
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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The locations of the nuclear bomb strikes.
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Chiang Kai Sheik
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Leader of China
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Hideki Tojo
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Leader of Japan
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Charles deGaulle
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Leader of France
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Joseph Stalin
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Leader of USSR
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A Phillip Randolph
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Founded the March on Washington Movement
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Henry Stimson
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Secretary of War during WWII
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Cordell Hull
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FDR's Secretary of State
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Veterans of Future Wars
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A group formed by Princeton students...anti-war.
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Sudetenland
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The first location that Hitler took over.
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Nazi – Soviet Pact
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Stalin and Hitler wouldn't try to kill each other for ten years.
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Cash and Carry / Lend –Lease Acts
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Degradation of the Neutrality acts, used to make the US money while still out of war.
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Mother’s Crusade
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Mothers against the Lend-Lease
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Reuben James
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A ship where the first American shots of WWII were fired.
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Tripartite Pact
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Alliance of Germany, Japan, and Italy
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Axis Powers
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Mainly Germany, Japan, and Italy.
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Pearl Harbor
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The Japanese attacked a Hawaiian naval base. The action that brought the United States into World War Two
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Winston Churchill
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Prime Minister of Britain
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Battle of Stalingrad
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Stalingrad was under seige from Germans, and the civilians held out until the remaining German soldiers were captured by the Red Army.
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North African Campaign
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Operation Torch--mainly to open up a second front to spread the Germans even thinner.
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Charles Nimitz
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The naval admiral who led the US to victory
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Office of Price Administration (OPA)
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Controlled prices of goods after the outbreak of WWII
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Executive Order 9066
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Sent Japanese to internment camps
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Nisei
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Japanese Americans
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Atlantic Charter
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Foundation for many international agreements today.
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Big Three Conference
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Conference of FDR, Churchill and Stalin.
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Battle of the Bulge
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Biggest battle of WWII, final stand for the Germans.
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Manchuria
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Province of China occupied by Japan.
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USS Missouri
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The ship where the treaty to end the war was signed.
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