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29 Cards in this Set
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50,000 US, British, Canadian troops landed at Normandy
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D-Day
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a radio correspondent that gave the scene accounts of war ravaged Europe
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Edward Murrow
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According to the film, how many died during WWII?
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50 million
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Approximately how many African Americans served in the Arm Forces?
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2.5 million
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At the Rape of Nanjing, how many did the Japanese kill?
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300,000
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Japanese forced 70,000 survivors to march thru the jungle and 10,000 died
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Bataan Death March
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March 9, 1945 Super fortresses killed 80,000 civilians in what Japanese city?
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Tokyo
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Provided for the first peacetime draft in American history
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Selective Training and Services Act
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Romanian born American writer who was at Auschwitz and Buchenwald
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Weisel (author of Night)
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WWII began in Asia when Japanese attacked what country in 1937
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French Indochina
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Soviet Leader that met with Churchill and Roosevelt at Teheran, Iran giving support for Allied plans
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Stalin
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The largest ghetto in Poland was in what city?
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Warsaw
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name of the plan to deveop the atomic bomb
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Manhatten Project
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U.S. Battleship sunk with 1103 sailors on it
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Name of camp made of 45 smaller campes where Nazi's killed Jews
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Auschwitz
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The palce in New Mexico where the first atomic bomb was tested
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Alamogordo
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The refinement of this technology became an important factor for the Allied plans
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atomic bomb ???
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To the Japanese, he was like a god
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Hirohito
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What country had the most casualties during WWII
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Germany
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What percentage of those who died in WWII were civilians?
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40% ??
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What two diseases broke out within days of the ghettos being set up?
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typhoid and ???
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What U.S. President ordered work on the atomic bomb
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Truman
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What was the Final Solution
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Hitler's plan to murder all Jews of Europe
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Was was the name of the gas that killed as many as 6000 people in a single dayZ
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Zyklon B
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What was the name of the plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima?
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Enola Gay
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Total cost of armaments and other military costs from WWII
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When did Germany invade Poland
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1937
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WHich solution called for the removal of Jews from the economy and to isolate them within Germany?
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Judenrein
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Who instgated the pogram agist the Jews on Nov. 9, 1938
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HItler
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