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43 Cards in this Set
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Region in Europe occupied by Germany
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Rhineland
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U.S. established naval superiority here
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Midway
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After resources were unavailable to Japan, they went here.
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South East Asia
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Part of Czechoslovakia; Hitler claimed and occupied it
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Sudetenland
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Americans, British, and Soviets
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Allies
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European leader; shot
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Mussolini
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Where did the British, French, and Germans meet?
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Munich Conference
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agreement between Japan and Germany
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Anti-Comintern pact
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part of China, Japanese took first
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Manchuria
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known as the soft underbelly
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Italy
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process of taking each island in the pacific
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Island hopping
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Why did the U.S. feel the need to drop the atomic bomb?
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to prevent casualties
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Name of the new French government
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Fiche
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Soviet attempt to dismantle and move their factories
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Battle of Machines
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Name of German air force
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Luftwaffe
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separation of Eastern and Western Germany
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"Iron Curtain"
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300,000 soldiers saved by civilians here
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Dunkirk
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tension of Soviet Union in the west
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Cold war
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The invasion of what country began WWII?
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Poland
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name of battle of control over English skies
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Battle of Britain
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in charge of Germany's manufacturing
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Albert Spear
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Why did Hitler feel he had to invade Britain?
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to force British surrender
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name of swift tank attacks
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Blitzkrieg
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Russian city under seize for 900 days
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Stalingrad
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series of heavy fortifications along French and German border
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Maginot line
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assembling/preparation for war
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mobilization
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movement of Southern blacks to the north
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Black migration
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Leader of SS
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Himler
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How did allies divide up Germany?
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into 4 military districts
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systematic extermination of a certain race
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genocide
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Who was in charge of administering the "final solution"?
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Reinhard Heinrich
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peace keeping organization created at the Yalta conference
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United Nations
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best described the Japaneses' attitude during WWII
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arrogant
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Where were discussions held about how to divide Germany?
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Yalta Conference
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helped Germans round up the Jews
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collaborators
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talked about how to take war to Germans here
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Terran Conference
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List 4 other groups targeted by Germany besides the Jews |
1. Gypsies
2. Slavic intellectuals 3. The mentally retarded 4. Homosexuals |
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What happened on this date? June 6, 1944 |
D-Day
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What happened on this day? December 7, 1941 |
Pearl Harbor
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What happened on this day? August 6, 1945 |
First atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
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What happened on this day? September 1, 1939 |
Start of WWII
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What happened on this day? May 7, 1945 |
Germany surrendered
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What happened on this day? June 4, 1942 |
Battle of Midway
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