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12 Cards in this Set
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Popular name for the leaders of Great Britain, the USSR, and the U.S.
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BIG THREE
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Allied war-time conference in February 1945
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YALTA CONFERENCE
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after only 83 days as vice president, he became president of the United States when Franklin Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945
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HARRY S. TRUMAN
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victory in Europe Day, May 8, 1945
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V-E DAY
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German wartime facilities designed for the extermination of Jews and people opposed to the Nazis
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CONCENTRATION CAMPS
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U.S. general who led the Allied forces in the Pacific during WWII
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DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
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the Japanese city destroyed on August 6, 1945 by an Allied atomic bomb
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HIROSHIMA
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organized raids and massacres by anti-Jewish rioters upon the people in southern Russia in the late 1800's
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POGROMS
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defeating a nation and aggressively instituting the growth of a military state within that nation
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EXPANSIONISM
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peace between nations, each nation should be free to self-govern, and each nation should live with fear or threat of war from another nation
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ATLANTIC CHARTER
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considered a liberator of France because he organized the strong military group called the Forces of Free France to fight against the germans during WWII
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CHARLES DE GAULLE
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a hatred or fear of strangers or foreigners
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XENOPHOBIA
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