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34 Cards in this Set
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giving into the demands of an agressor in order to keep the peace
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appeasement
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a
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lightning war
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blitzkrieg
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b
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state of tension and gostility among nations withough armed conflict
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cold war
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c
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one who cooperates with an enemy force occupying a country
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collaborator
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c
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Limiting communism to areas already under soviet control
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containment
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c
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deliberate destruction of a group of people
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genocide
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g
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Japanese pilots who undertook suicide missions to attack american warships
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kamikaze
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k
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opposition to all war
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pacifism
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p
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Prime minister who rallied britain to fight against nazi agression
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winston churchill
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w c
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nationalist general who created a fascist dictatorship in spain
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Francisco Franco
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F F
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supreme allied commander in eurpoe
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dwight eisen hower
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the office
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ethiopian king who appealed to the league of nation for help
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Haile Selassie
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H S
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President who issued a policy stating that americans would resist soviet expansion in the world
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Harry Truman
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Beach on the english channel where allied troops were rescued from advancing nazis.
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Dunkirk
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D
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site of a battle in egypt that became a turning point in WWII
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El Alamein
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E A
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Town that was brutally attacked by germany during the spanish civil war
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guernica
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Japanese city destroyed by an atomic bomb dropped by the U.S in 1945
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Hiroshima
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H
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Naval base in hawaii that was attacked by japan in 1941
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Pearl harbor
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P H
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What is the importance of the spanish civil war?
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Was germany's "dress rehersal" for WWII
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What was the london blitz?
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lasted 57 nights
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What was the importance of Dunkirk?
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Biggest rescue operation in history
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what was the importance of luftwaffe?
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it was the german airforce nick name and air attack was the only way they could attack great britain.
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what country had the majority of the concentration camps?
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Poland
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what was operation barbarossa and operation sea lion?
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Barbarossa- land attacks on soviet union
sea lion- air attack on great britain |
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what was the effet of japanese attack, pearl harbor?
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U.S. enters WWII
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what does d-day refer to?
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allied attack on france & pushed back hitler
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what was the turning point in the war in the pacific, where the u.s. went on the offensive?
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battle of midway
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when the allied forces captured this city they ended the war in europe
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berlin
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which country suffered the highest number of casualties in WWII?
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soviet union
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division of germany after the war
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BERLIN WALL: split east and west
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about how many jews were killed in the holocaust?
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6 million
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explain appeasement and why european countries followed that policy.
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app-peace at any cost
followed it by not doing anything and Hitler gained too much power |
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name the two sides of the cold war
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u.s and soviet union
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identify 3 acts of aggression by dictators in the 1930s
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1,germany takes land from czechleslovakia
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