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38 Cards in this Set
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he was a fascist dictator in Spian
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Francisco Franco
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who was the Japanese emperor during WWII
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Hirohito
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who was a Japanese general
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Hideki Tojo
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dictator in Germany
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Adolf Hitler
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served as the prime minister in England
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Neville Champerlain
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U.S. president during WWII
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Franklin Roosevelt
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German general who tried to defeat the British in Egypt
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Erwin Rommel
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British general who defeated the German's in Egypt
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Bernard Montgomery
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American general who was the supreme Allied comander in the Pacific
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Douglas McArthur
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American general in North Africa and Europe
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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American artist who made expressionist and abstract expressionism
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Jackson Pollock
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what happened on September 1, 1939
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German troops enterned Poland beginning in WWII
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what happened in December 7, 1941
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Japan launched a surprise attack on the American naval base but American aircraft careers were not destroyed
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what event happened on June 6, 1944 and what happened to this event
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D-day-the Allies launched a massive invasion of France in Normandy
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what event happened on September 2, 1945 and what happened on this event
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V-J day-the Japanese and Allied Presentatives signed the treaty that formally ended the Japanese involvment in WWII
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what name did Hitler give his German empirer
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Third Reich
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what means avoiding conflict by making concession
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appeasement
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what is the Luftwaffe and what caused it to be ineffective when the Allied forces were trapped on the beach at Dunkirk
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German airforces and it was caused by rain and fog
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what means political rivalry that stopped short
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cold war
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what type of art did Pollock start
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abstract expressionism
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what Hebrew term is for the Holocaust
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shoah
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what country had a fascist government in WWII
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Spain
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Japan invaded what country to demonstrate its aggression toward China and caused Japan to end its participation in the League of Nations
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Manchuria
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what part of Czechoslovakia did Germany invade
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Sudentenland
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at what conference did Britain and France allow Hitler to the Sudentenland
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Munich Conference
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what country tried to resist invasion by Germany and Russia but then both invaded this country at the same time
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Poland
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what country was bombed by Germany in preparation for a land invasion at the British Isles
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London
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what two Pacific islands were captured by Americans to be used to defend America agianst Japan
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Iwo Jima and Okinawa
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what two Japanese cities did America drop atomic bombs on
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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what was a German concentraton camp called
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Auschwitz
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what pact did Germany Allie with Japan agianst Russia
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Anti-Cominterm Pact
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what three countrys were in the Axis powers
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Japan, Italy, and Germany
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what pact made an alliance between Germany and Italy
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Pact of Steel
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why is WWII considered a truly "world" war
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it is considered a truly "world" because there were battles on several continents
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what did Russia do after WWII
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they dominated and seized most of Eastern Europe
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whose power was crushed after WWII
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Europe
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what did WWII demonstrate
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that once again man has a sin nature
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what are two major turning pionts in WWII
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Germany invaded Russia and Japan invaded Pearl Harbor
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