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47 Cards in this Set
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Washington conference purpose
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Naval disarmament, security in the pacific, 10 year moratorium on capital ship building- no limit on subs/destroyers
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Problems with treaties at WA conference
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5 and 4 lower treaties- no enforcement
tonage allowed in terms of ships, agree to respect territories in pacific |
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Kellog briand pact
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France and us won't go to war against each other- war only in self defense
problem- can't be enforced, too trust-based |
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War debts' effect on europe, Germany
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Weaken peace efforts- cause tensions when countries ask for immediate paybacks
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Good neighbor policy
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FDR's foreign policy of promoting better relations with Latin America through mutual respect
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Caudillos
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Latin american military leaders during the 30's who used force to maintain order, depression- people need powerful leader to offer hope, guidance
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Fascism
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Appealed to Italian nationalists, military dominated gov't that controls all aspects of society
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Mussolini in Italy
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Threatened march on Rome, Emmanuel appoints him prime minister, Invades ethiopia, allies with Germany and japan, invades Albania, War against us
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Joseph Stalin in soviet union
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Totalitarianism, collectivization- combined small farms into one big one, gulags- work camps, Set quotas for production
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Hitler rises to power in Germany
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Beer hall putsch, chancellor, Reichfurer, march on Rhineland, Anschluss (annexation of Austria), Munich conference- get Sudetenland
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Anti-semetism
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Hatred of Jews
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Kristallnacht
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Night of broken glass, when Nazis destroyed Jewish buildings
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Francisco Franco in Spain
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Led conservative military in overthrowing liberal gov't, Spanish civil war-aided by germ
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Militarists in japan
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Seized Manchuria, attacked china, attacked us (pearl harbor), Attacked smaller islands in pacific- Decrease influence of western countries, gain Asian territory
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Axis powers
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Italy, Germany, japan- well prepared, strong militarily
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Winston Churchill & atlantic charter
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Pledge by churchill and fdr not to acquire new territory as a result of WWII and work for peace after the war, self determination, disarm aggressive countries
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Rise if dictatorships in post wwi Europe
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Compromised economies, desire for more resources/power, unhappy workers looking for radical changes
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Non aggression pact
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Btwn germ and ussr, won't attack each other, secret clause- divide Poland, hitler later turns on stalin- schlieffen plan
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WWII declared- event
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Sep 1, 1939, Germans invade Poland, france and fb declare war on germ
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Lend-lease act
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Law that allowed us to offer weapons and other war supplies to allied powers to fight against axis powers in WWII
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Blitzkrieg
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Lightning war, type of fast moving warfare used by German forces
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Japanese attack on pearl harbor
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Tactical, not strategic success- awoke industrial giant, many killed, planes/ships destroyed
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Us mobilization for war
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More ppl pay income taxes, war bonds, draft, increased size of army, allocate scarce materials, set prices, freeze wages
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Selective training and service act
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First peacetime draft in us history
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General Douglas macarthur
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Led us and filipino troops in defense of philippines from japan- ordered troops to evacuate Manila, retreat to Bataan peninsula
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Bataan death march
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Brutal forced march of us and Filipino prisoners during WWII up Bataan peninsula- 100,000 died
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Battle of coral sea
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Strategic allied victory- stopped Japanese, new era of naval warfare-aircraft carriers
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Battle of midway
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Japan planned 2 prong attack- aleutian isles and midway near HI, us concentrated at midway
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Battle of Guadalcanal
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Near Australia, Solomon islands, first allied offensive in pacific, Japanese trying to build airbase, allies win
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Allies in north Africa
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Us and Brits against germs, italy can't hang on to n africa, multiple front war
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El alamein
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Africa=vital in order to open up Mediterranean area to allied invasion
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Staligrad
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Soviets refuse to surrender, germ soldiers trapped- starving, finally surrendered, lots of axis casualties
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Rosie the riveter
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Symbol of patriotic female defense workers during WWII
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Us war propaganda
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Advertisement by movie stars, gov't encouraged media together involved, office of war info- flow of war news
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Internment of japanese Americans
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National secuirty, war hysteria, issei-immigrants, nissei- born in us
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General Dwight d Eisenhower
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Commanded invasion force of us and British soldiers- french territory northwest Africa
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General George Patton and allied invasion of Italy
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Clear axis from Mediterranean, allies defeat germs in Italy, Mussolini shot by Italian rebels
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Battle of the atlantic
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Allies- sonar, better/faster ships, help from Portugal, allies win
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D-Day
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Allies cross English channel to France, germs have phony info, decoys
problems- No coverage on beach- open fire hitler refused to send backups |
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Holocuast
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Efficient Termination of all Jews, Most countries ignored events
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Battle of the bulge
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Germs outnumber allies, last germ offensive, delay allies 2 months
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Yalta conference
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Churchill, Stalin, fdr, Russia makes a bunch of promises they won't keep, Nothing decided
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Bombings of Germany
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Us and gb- successful
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Victory in pacific
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Victory in pacific, iwo jima- six week struggle for control of key pacific island (allies), Okinawa- bloody battle in pacific (allies), kamikaze- Japanese suicide planes
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Manhattan project
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Secret us project to develop atomic bomb
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Bombing of Hiroshima and nagasaki
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8/6/1945 and 8/9/1945
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Fair employmnt practice committee
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Group created to prevent discrim in war industries and gov't jobs
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