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26 Cards in this Set
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Black Shirts
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part of Hitler’s army
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Mein Kampf
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a book that Hilter - means my struggle
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Third Reich
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Hitler's goal to createthem empire of Nazi Germany.
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Kellogg Braind Pact
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63 nations signed a pact pleding "to renounce war as an instrument of national policy.
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blitzkrieg
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German for "lightning war" a swift and sudden military attack; used by the Germans during World War II.
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Luftwaffe
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the German Air force
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Operation Torch
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U.S. launched an attack on more “winnable” target
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D-Day
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1st liberation of France, took over french sea front
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Holocaust
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Hiter killed 6 million Jews
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kamikaze
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Japanize for "divine wind," a suicide mission in which young Japense piolots intertinally flew their airplanes into US fighting ships at sea
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Manhattan Project
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code for enoirmud industrial and technial enterpises that made the firast atomic bombe
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Little Boy
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an atomic bombe the second one used on Nagasakie
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Yalta Conference
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a court systemm in japan
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Nuremberg War Trials
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criminal war trials with harsh punishmenet
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Benito Mussolini
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established the first European fasctist movement in Italy.
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Adolph Hitler
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extreme nationalest who in 1921 had totsal controll over the Nazi Party
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Dwight D Eisenhower
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U.S. general, lead operatio torch
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Admiral Chester Nimitz
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Head leader of the U.S. Navy,
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Joseph Stalin
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a strong soviet dictatore
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Erwin Rommel
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the general broke through the British defenses in Egypt
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Douglas MacArthur
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U.S. general who occopied Japan for seven years
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Battle of Britain
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Germany came and attacked Britain, Europe was prepared thanks to there effisiant radar systems.
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Battle of the Bulge
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Hitler’s last offensive of the war
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Doolittle’s Raid
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the first aircraft attack on Japanise Soil, from the U.S.
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Battle of Midway
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Japanise downfall, lost all of aircraft cariers
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Battle of Coral Sea
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one of the most costly battle for the japanise, Japanize lost more men than us (U.S.A.)
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