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17 Cards in this Set
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V-E Day |
Victory in Europe. Hitler commits suicide, Germany surrenders, May 8, 1945 War officially ends in Europe. |
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Bataan Death March |
Japanese made the Philippines walk 65 miles to Japan. Killed 10,000+ people |
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Island-hopping |
Campaign; allied strategy to recapture some Japanese islands while bypassing others |
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Douglas MacArthur |
American general who fought to take back a Philippines and advanced towards Japan |
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Kamikaze |
Pilots who undertook suicide mission s |
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Manhattan Project |
Allied race to harness the atom |
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Hiroshima |
An American plan dropped an atomic bomb over this Japanese City |
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Nagasaki |
The US dropped another bomb, this time in Nagasaki |
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Objective |
Something worked toward; a goal |
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Nuremberg |
City where the Allies held war crimes trials and where Hitler staged mass rallies in the 1930s |
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United Nations |
International organization estab after ww2 w/ the goal of maintaining peace and cooperation in the international community |
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Cold War |
State of tension and hostility between nations aligned with the United States on one aside and the Soviet Union on the other without armed conflict between the major rivals |
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Truman Doctrine |
Truman said it is the policy of the US to support free people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressures |
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Marshall Plan |
The US funneled food and economic assistance to Europe to help countries rebuild |
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Invoked |
Resorted to; called upon |
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
It's members pledged to help each other if any one were attacked |
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Warsaw Pact |
Soviet Unions military alliance that included the Soviet Union and 7 satellites in E.Europe |
