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53 Cards in this Set
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Roosevelt's Early Foreign Policy
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Recognized SOviet Union was the first thing he did by loaning them money for supplies.
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Spanish Civil War
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Communist try to take the govt by force. Franco try to set up a Facism state. Facism won, Communist lost
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Chamberlain & Hitler
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made an appeasement Hitler wanting a Piece of Czechoslovakia, but ends up taking all of Germany since they produced nuclear weapons.
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Flying Tigers
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planes by US to be used to help CHina- wiped out Japanese by this.
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Non-Agression Pact
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made by HItler n Stalin that stated that Germany and Russia will never go to war against each other.
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World War II
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Began Sept. 1939 by the capturing Poland by German & Russia
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Blitzkrieg
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new fighting "Lightning & war"; tanks lined up on one place first before the footsoldiers.
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Sedan
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Where the German Settled on the coast to fight the English.
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Dunkirk
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an evacuation place out of Belgium for the English
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Battle Of Britain
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English throw out Chamberlain in the battle of the East Germany by the support and help US pilots to defeat German. Winston Churchill (became prime minister)
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OSS
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American Organization to Spy & assasinate bad people
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Manhattan Project
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a project to create amercian nuclear atomic bomb; involved greates scientist like Einstein.
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Stalingrad
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German wants to capture this to take out Russia's tanks & planes. But Russia recaptured it after the help of USA causing the turning point of the European War.
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Rommel
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German defeat his US Army during the Operation torch-soldiers barely trained to fight.
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Patton
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General who train the peole to fight who defeat the German during the Operation Torch
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D-Day June 6 1944
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Normandy, France, thousands of people were buried to here; ENDED THE WAR;
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Battle of the Bulge
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German plan to cut US supply line in Belgium; US won givin the last chance for German; US slowed the German down to have their tanks run out of gas.
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Battle of Berlin
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Russia wants the atomic bombs in Berlin, had spies to capture them; Lost 100,000 man and capture Berlin. Hitler Commits Suicide causing Germany to surrendered in 1945
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Pearl Harbor (DEC 7 1941)
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suprised attack on US Naval Battleships by Japan.
Mistakes made by Japan were they did not destroy submarines, fuel carriers, and sink aircraft carriers. |
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Midway
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Turning point of the Pacific. US follow the Japanese aircrafts home where they had bomb Japan aircraft carriers.
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Leyte Gulf
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Battle for Philippines for US & Japan; US marines was trapped and was wipeout by the Japanese. However Johnson circling around allowing the Japanese it was the US next fleet made the Japanese go home. DUring the night, US wiped out the Japanese using their radar.
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Iwo Jima
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"stinky island"- worst lost for US MArine; 5000 marines died. Japan trapped the US marines here. Where they raised the flags. Wipeout by attacking with what they all got. they capture Iwo Jima. killed 12,000 Japanese, 7 Survive.
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Okinawa
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US captured this as a base. Japan used large # of Kamikazeez(suicide plane). US Lost large # of navy ships.
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Hiroshima & Nagasaki
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Truman allow to bomb these two cities as for the Japanese to surrender.
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Tehran
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held a conference meeting between US, Britain, & Russia to make plans after the war.
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Yalta
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Russia meeting;
a)Soviet Union Declares war on Japan in exchange for Manchuria & Kurille Islands b)United Nations Formed April 1945 |
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Iron Curtain
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Communist line of defense to keep people in the country.
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Truman Doctrine
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prevents US and countries to fall into communist country
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Marshall Plan
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to rebuild the European countries
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Berlin Blockade
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US control half of Berlin
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NATO
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Military alliance with US & western European allies & Russia Allies
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Warsaw Pact
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Russia treaty, agreement to western cities in Russia to allied to go against NATO
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Mao Zedong
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leader of communist; defeat Chiang that put Taiwan as a communist also.
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Chiang Kais-sher
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leader of non-communist
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Korean war (88 Parallel)
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June 25 1950. against N. Korean and S. Korean.
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Nikita Karushev
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shot all the members of collective leadership- became the leader of SOviet Union
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Leonid Brezhnev
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took over Nikita by throwing hr out of power.
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De Gaulle
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General, dominated France; build up atomic weapons, got help from US
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Konrad Adenauler
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leader of West Germany; brought capitlaism along with Ludwig Erhard; they cut income taxes work pay; no employment
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Clement Att Lee
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new prime minister of Britain; formed NAtionalization Society that Govt is gonna take over industry & control them for the people; also create Welfare states
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Gorbachev
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brought about the end of Cold war; thought communists the best thing in mankind
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Reagan
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put off the counting out of Russian communist; countries killed the vessel leader
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Yelsin
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made army to shoot communist leaders that ended the cold war
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George Bush
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Desert storm
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Bill Clinton
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NAFTA & GATT
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Gerhard Schroeder
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socialist prime miniester; Germany collapse under him
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Margaret Thatcher
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new leader of Britain, lowered the taxes, more jobs
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Rennicipation of Germany
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put Germany in control of the Socialists
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Eisenhower
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says that he protect US from terrorists
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Kennedy
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Troops are fighting to train.
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Lyndon Johnson
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made of lie of GUlf of Tonkin Resolution
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Green Movement
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still socialists that replace communist from the world environment
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Terrorism
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part of our life everday.
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