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manchuria
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this region was seized by a group of middle-level army officer in 1931
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hidekitojo
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this man - and other military leaders - came to dominate the government of japan and supported japanese expansionism
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mukden incident
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this incident - appeared to be a chinese attack on a japanese railway-it was actually japanese soldiers disguised as chinese to provide an excuse for japanese seizure of manchuria
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manchukuo
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this was the name the japanese gave to their new province in manchuria
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chang kai-shek
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leader of the nationalist government in china. he preferred to fight his civil war against the communists but eventually had to unite with the communists to fight the japanese.
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chamberlain
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this man was the prime minister of great britain in the run-up to world war II
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economic sanctions
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action taken by the united states after japan damanded the right to exploit the resources of french indochina. we would refuse to sell them oil and scrap iron
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stopping germany from remiliterizing rhineland
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according to the reading - the road to war- what may have been the last opportunbity to avert war in europe.
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appeasement
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this is the policy based upon the belief that if european states satisfied the reasonable demands of dissatisfied powers, the dissatisfied powers would be content, and stability and peaace would be achieved in europe.
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britain
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this nation signeed a naval agreement with the germans that allowed them to rebuild their nacy
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haile selassie
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this man was the emperor of ethiopia - he spoke before the league of nations begging them to intervene to stop italian aggression there
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economic sactions
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action taken by the league of nations in october of 1935 against italy
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spanish popular front(communist, socialists, liberals)
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what groups formed the left side of the spanish civil war
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germany, japan, italy
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by december of 1937, what three nations had withdrawn from the league of nations
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FASCIST, MONARCHISTS, CONSERVATIVES
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what groups formed the right side of the spectrum in the spanish civil war
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geurnica
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this town was devastated by low-flying german bombers-first diliberate bombarbment of a civilian population-during the spanish civil war
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edward daladier(france
hilder - germany mussolini-italy chamberlain-britain |
who were the four political leaders at the munich conferenceczechoslavakia and soviet union
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what nations were not represented at munich and probably should be
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conferenceczechoslavakia and soviet union
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to providetime to prepare for war
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identify one good reason why britain and france made the munish agreement
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took the rest of czechoslavakia
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this action by germany ended the days of appeasement
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ribbentrop / mdotov
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these were the two men who negotiated the hitler-stalin pact in 1939
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dazig
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on what port city in poland did hitler center his demands
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eastern poland and baltic states
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what places in europe did hitler agree to let stalin to take control of in the secret part of the nazi-soviet pact
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declared war
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response of britain and france to the attack on poland
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the rape of nanking
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the duration of this massacre is not difined but probably lasted six weeks during which japanese troops committed uncounted war crimes. murdering perhaps 300,000 chinese the event served as a focus point for new chinese nationism
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berlin-rome-tokyo axis
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an alliance between the three great fascist nations it was presumably formed to create a common front against communism
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the sudentenland
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what was the region of czechoslovakia that hitler demanded at munich
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blitzkrieg
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lightening war invloving aremored columns
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maginot lines
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this was a series of concrete and steel fortificatrion amred with heavy artillery
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dunkirk
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from here, with heroic effort the british navy and civilians managed to evacuate allied soldiers
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henri petain
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this man became the leaqder of unoccupied france the government of france after the surrender to germany
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the battle of britain
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this battle was fought because germany needed control of the air before it could invade great britain it was fought between the luftwaffe and the RAF
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yoshiko kawashima
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born in china but raised in japan. sent to china to gather information for the invasion of china was caught and executed
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midway
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here us planes destroyed four attacking japanese eircraft carriers. this defeat of the japanese neavy established american naval superiority in the pacific
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eisenhower
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commander of all allired forces in the european theater he led the landing on the beaches of normandy
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battle of kursk
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the greatest tank battle of world war II the soviets soundly defeatedthe new heavy german tanks
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truman
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became president when franklin roosevelt died he had to make the crucial decision to drop the bomb of not
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partisans
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resistance fighters
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macarthur
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commander of the american troops in the pacific theater he was to move into the philippines through new guinea
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island hopping
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this was the strategy of capturing some japanese-held islands while bypassing others
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violette szabo
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became a spy after her husband died fighting the germans in north africa
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germany italy japan
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three members of the axis
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batan penninsula
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one of the last places in the philippines where american soldiers fiercely resisted. eventurally forced to surrender to the japanese
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rommel
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commander of the german forces in north africa
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el alamein
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place where british troops stopped rommel
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stalingrad
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perhaps the most terrible battle of the war
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rape of nanjing
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one of the most infamous of japanese war crimes
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atlantic fonference
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in this roosevelt and churchill declared that the us and britain sought no territorial gainsin world war II.
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lend-lease
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in this program the us congress allowed the president to sell, transfer title to, exchange or otherwise dispose of, to any government
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the atlantic charter
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churchill was the architect and safeguard of this group of nations which combined efforts of various nations to defeat the nazis
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battle of the bulge
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last ditch effort by the germans to throw the allies out of europe.
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operation barbarossa
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german code name for the suprise attack on the ussr
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the blitz
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massive bombing on the UK
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new order
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term for the german control of continental europe
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vichy france
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term given to the collaborationist government of unoccupied france
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anne frank
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young girl kept diary of the time spent in hiding in the netherlands
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genocide
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physical attempt to exterminate a group of people based upon their race
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the einstazgruppen
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special strike forces to carry out the final solution of the jewish problem.
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heinrich himmler
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leader of the SS
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auschwitz
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most notorious of the death camps
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decision at postdam 1
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at the conclusion of the war crimes trials would be held for the leaders of the nazi state
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decision at postdam 2
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poland moved 100 miles west- into what had been eastern germany
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decision at postdam
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put into force decision to divide germany into administrative occupation zones
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decision at postdam
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denazifiction
party destroyed and laws repealed |
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decision at postdam
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demilitarization
development of local responsibility reorganization od educaional and judicial systems |
