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20 Cards in this Set
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Night
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Book written by Elie Weisel, a holocaust survivor
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Rabbi Eliahou
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Son abandoned him, but he kept on looking for him
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Moshe the Beadle
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Warned Elie Weisel and his town of impending doom, but was not listened to
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Krystalnacht
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Night of Broken Glass-Hundreds of Jewish shops boycotted
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White Paper
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Outlawing of Jewish-owned shops
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Liberation
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Various dates, Allies in German camps
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Atom bombed, in order respectively, approxiametely 35,000 killed
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D-Day
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Invasion of Normandy-June 6th, 1944
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The Big Four
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Countries who attended meeting to decide penalties of war-U.S., Britain, France, Italy
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Nuremburg Trials
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24 Nazis tried, 12 executed, 2/3 commited suicide, remaining jailed for life
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WWI Weaponry-Refined vs. Unrefined
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Artillery/Big Weapons vs. Smaller Arms
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Guadalcanal
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U.S. vs. Japan naval battle-U.S. victory
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Archduke Ferdinand
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Austrian president; assisnated, beginning WWI
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Allies in WWII
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U.S., Britain, France
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Axis in WWII
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Germany, Japan, Italy
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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Movie/Book banned in Germany
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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Anti-war movie from German point of view
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Adolf Hitler
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Rose to power in late 1930s, headed Nazi Germany during WWII
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Ghetto
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Isolated living section of town
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Interment Camps
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Camps in the U.S. where mass amounts of Japanese-Americans were placed during WWI
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