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29 Cards in this Set
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Appeasement
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Giving in to demand, keep in peace.
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Blitzkrieg
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"Lightning War" new military strategy by using fast-moving airplanes and tanks.
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Cold War
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State of tension without physical war.
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Kamikaze
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Japan pilots attacking American worship.
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Containment
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President Truman and the US try to limit communism.
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Pacifism
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opposition to all war
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Dunkirk
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Allied troops bring rescued from the German by the British.
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Winston Churchill
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Prime minister of Britain. The guys that declared that Britain would never surrender.
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Francisco Franco
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Dictator of Spain.
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Charles de Gualle
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Was a French general that fought the Nazis until the end of war, and was the leader of the Free French.
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B. Montgomery
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Leader of El Alamein. The guy that was sent to Libya to his troops. There he battled the Germans in the battle of El Alamein.
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Battle of El Alamein
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The battle that B. Montgomery fought the Germans and was able to win. This was in Libya.
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Isoroku Yamamoto
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Japan's naval expert.
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Douglas MacArthur
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Was the one that came up with the Island hopping strategy. This was used in the Battle of Guadalcanal against the Japanese.
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Guernica
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Town that was brutally attacked by Germany during the Spanish Civil War.
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Pearl Harbor
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Naval base in Hawaii that was attacked by Japan in December 7, 1941.
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Hiroshima
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Japanese city destroyed by an atomic bomb.
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Bataan Death March
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The March that Japanese used real cruelty on allied prisoners of war.
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Blitzkrieg for 2 month
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London used this
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Operation Barbarossa
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Hitler's conquest of the soviet union
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D-Day
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Allied invasion of France to kill German. Knows as the largest land and sea attack in History. Germans surrendered at the end.
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Midway Island
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Turning point after which the U.S. took the offensive in the Pacific.
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What was Hitlers prime reason for wanting to take over Poland?
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He wanted the Polish corridor and the port city of Danzig.
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The Atlantic Charter: significance during and after the war.
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-ALL OF THE ABOVE
-Emphasized rights of free choice government -Postwar peace. |
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What happened to Germany after the war?
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They divided after the war
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What happened to the Soviet Union after the war?
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They suffered the highest number of casualties.
- 75,000,000 military - 15,000,000 civilians also gained Latvia |
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Battle of Midway
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Turning point that allowed the US to take the offensive in the pacific
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Truman Doctrine
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Supports free people who are resisting communism.
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Who said, "We shall fight on the beeches, we shall never surrender."?
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Winston Churchill
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