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37 Cards in this Set
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British prime miinister during WW2.
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Winston Churchill
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System of fortifications during France's border with Germany.
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Maignot Line
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Joint declaration issued by Roosevelt and Churchill that upheld free trade amoung nations and the people's right to choose their own gov't.
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Atlantic Charter
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French general who organized the Free French military forces to fight with Nazis.
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Charles de Gualle
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Commander of Hitlers crack German tank force, the afrika korps.
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Erwin Rommel
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French port city which a fleet of British ships and civilian craft evacuated trapped soldiers in 1940.
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Dunkirk
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Lightning war
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Blitzkreig
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1941 battle that demonstrated that Hitlers attacks could be blocked
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Battle of Britain
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Agreement between Stalin and Hitler to divide Poland.
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nonaggression pact
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Germanys air force.
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Luftwaffe
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American general who served as commander of the Allied forces in Europe during WW2.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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First day of invasion of Normandy in WW2 is known as?
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D-Day
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Battle that brought the war in Europe to a quick end?
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Battle of the Bulge
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Process of disbanding a country's armed forces?
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Demilitarization
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Short battle that turned tide of war in favor of the Allies in the pacific?
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Battle of Midway
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American commander of Allied land forces in the Pacific during WW2?
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Douglas McArthur
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After WW2 Nazi leaders faced charges of waging a war of aggression and committing crimes against humanity.
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Nuremberg Trials
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What did each leader get from the secret agreement(non-aggression pact)?
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Piece of Poland and it removed the threat of the Soviet Union attacking Germany.
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What strategy did Hitler use to conquer Poland?
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Blitzkreig
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What was Hitler's plan for conquering France?
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To distract the French and go through the Adenne Forest and Maignot Line and then invade France.
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What happenend at Dunkirk?
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The English rescued the French.
1940-France surrenders. |
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What was the outcome of The Battle of Britain?
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Proved that the Germans could be defeated.
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What was the outcome of the fighing at Tobruk?
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Rommel Seizes Tobruk.
British pushed Germans back and then the Germans pushed the British back. Germans take over. |
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Give in to an agressor.
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Appeasement
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To avoid getting in other countries affairs.
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Isolationism
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Sitting War.
Phony War. |
Sitzkreig
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Cut off supplies.
Refuse to trade. |
Sanctions
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Division of a country.
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Partisans
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Japanese suicide pilots
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Kamikaze
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Hitlers program to systimatically kill all Jews.
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Final Solution
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Germany, Italy, and Japan=
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Axis Powers
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Britain, Soviet Union, and United States=
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Allied Powers
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Camps used to segergate certain groups of people.
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Internment
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One who collaborates
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Collaborators
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Slave-labor prisons.
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Concentration Camps
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Equipped with huge gas chambers.
Could kill as many as 6,000 a day. |
Death Camps
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Mass killing of over 6,000,000 Jews and others.
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Holocaust
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