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30 Cards in this Set
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ETHIOPIAN KING WHO APPEALED TO THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS FOR HELP AFTER BEING INVADED BY ITALY
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HAILE SELASSIE
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SPANISH MARKET TOWN BOMBED BY THE NAZIS AS AN "EXPERIMENT"
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GUERNICA
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TOOK PLACE IN SEPTEMBER 1938; IN IT, BRITAIN AND FRANCE CHOSE APPEASEMENT FOR GERMANY
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MUNICH CONFERENCE
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BRITISH PRIME MINISTER WHO BELIEVED APPEASEMENT IN THE MUNICH CONFERENCE WOULD PRESERVE PEACE
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NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN
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THE UNION OF AUSTRIA AND GERMAN
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ANSCHLUSS
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CONSERVATIVE GENERAL WHO LED A REVOLT IN SPAIN LEADING TO A BLOODY CIVIL WAR
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FRANCISCO FRANCO
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FIRST PLACE SEIZED BY JAPAN; 1931
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MANCHURIA
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REGION IN WEST CZECHOSLOVAKIA THAT WAS APPEASED IN THE MUNICH CONFERENCE
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SUDETENLAND
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QUIET TIME WHILE THE FRENCH READIED FOR WAR BEHIND THE MAGINOT LINE
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"PHONY WAR"
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BRITISH PRIME MINISTER WHO REPLACED CHAMBERLAIN AND FOUGHT BACK THE NAZIS
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WINSTON CHURCHILL
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NAME FOR HITLER'S 'CONQUEST' OF THE SOVIET UNION
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OPERATION BARBAROSSA
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JAPANESE MILITARIST WHO ORDERED THE SURPRISE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR
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TOJO HIDEKI
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SET IN AUG 1941 B/T ROOS. & CHURCHILL, THIS SET GOALS FOR THE WAR [AGAINST NAZIS] AND FOR THE POSTWAR WORLD
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ATLANTIC CHARTER
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CITY IN RUSSIA WHERE GERMANY HELD A TWO-AND-A-HALF YEAR SEIGE BEGINNING IN 1941
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LENINGRAD
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"THE DESERT FOX" SENT BY HITLER INTO NORTH AFRICA
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GEN. ERWIN ROMMEL
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JAPAN'S WAY OF EXPANSION THROUGH SUPPOSEDLY PROTECTING ASIA BY CREATING A JAPANESE EMPIRE
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GREATER EAST ASIA CO-PROSPERITY SPHERE
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TURNING POINT IN WAR WHEN THE BRITISH STOPPED ROMMELS ADVANCE AND DROVE AXIS FORCES INTO TUNISIA
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BATTLE OF EL ALAMEIN
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COSTLIEST BATTLE OF WW2
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BATTLE OF STALINGRAD
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AMERICAN GENERAL WHO COMMANDED AN ANGLO-AMERICAN FORCE IN MOROCCO & ALGERIA
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DWIGHT EISENHOWER
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JAPANESE DIPLOMAT IN LITHUANIA WHO SAVED JEWS BY WRITING EXIT VISAS
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SUGIHARA CHIUNE
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BIG THREE
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ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL & STALIN
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ALLIE GENERAL WHO COMMANDED TROOPS IN THE PACIFIC AND FOUGHT TO RETAKE THE PHILIPPINES
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DOUGLAS MACARTHER
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BLOODY BATTLE THAT LASTED OVER A MONTH DURING WHICH THE GERMANS WERE UNABLE TO BREAK THROUGH AND WAS CONSIDERED THE AXIS' LAST SUCCESS
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BATTLE OF THE BULGE
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VICTORY IN EUROPE DAY. MAY 8, 1945 (OFFICIAL END OF WAR IN EUROPE)
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V-E DAY
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PRESIDENT AFTER ROOSEVELT WHO MADE THE DECISION TO DROP THE BOMB
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HARRY TRUMAN
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TWO JAPANESE ISLANDS WHERE ATOMIC BOMBS WERE DROPPED
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HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI
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NAZI COMMANDER AT AUSCHWITZ
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RUDOLF HOESS
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STATE OF TENSION AND HOSTILITY AMONG NATIONS WITHOUT ARMED CONFLICT BETWEEN MAJOR RIVALS
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COLD WAR
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POLICY BY WHICH THE US PROVIDED MILITARY AND ECONOMIC AID AND ADVISERS TO COUNTRIES THREATENED BY COMMUNISM
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TRUMAN DOCTRINE
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AREA OF SOVIET CONTROL IN EASTERN EUROPE THAT DIVIDED THE CONTINENT
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"IRON CURTAIN"
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