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44 Cards in this Set
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Totalitarian State |
Government controls all aspects of its people's lives |
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Holocaust |
Killing of Jews and other minorities though concentration or death camps |
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Island-Hopping |
Capture key islands in the Pacific (US Strat) |
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Little Boy |
Code name for bomb dropped on Hiroshima |
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Nuremburg Trials |
Trials held after WWII for war crimes |
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Operation Overlord |
Code name for the battle of Normandy |
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El Amamein |
Place Nazi's get oil from in Africa |
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Potsdam Conference |
The Big 3 met to discuss ally agreements (US, UK, Soviet Union) |
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Blitzkrieg |
Tank division of Hitler's army |
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Manhattan Project |
Where the scientists produced the first atomic bomb in WWII |
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Nisei |
Children born to Japanese people in the new country |
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V-E Day |
Victory Over Europe Day (The day Nazi Germany surrendered) |
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Concentration Camps (Aushwitz, Buchenwald, Birkenau) |
Death camps. Minorities weren't sent there by the Nazi's to be exterminated |
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Convoy System |
Helped save commercial liners from German U-Boat attacks |
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Amphibious Landing |
Used at Normandy to get mass amounts of people onto the shores at the same time to storm the beach |
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Executive Order 8802 |
Put Japanese-Americans in camps |
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Code Talkers |
Native Americans that were used to talk in a code that could not be broken if the Nazi's intercepted it |
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Kamikaze |
Japanese Flying division that used suicidal strikes with their planes to attack the US ships |
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Mein Kampf |
"My Struggle" Hitler's plan for when he takes over the world |
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Truman |
33rd US President |
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De Gaulle |
President of France |
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Patton |
US 5 star General |
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Hitler |
Leader of the Nazi party and the 3rd Reich |
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Churchill |
Elected leader of England |
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MacArthur |
Us 5 star General stationed in the Pacific |
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Mussolini |
Leader of the "Black Shirts" and was the communist leader of Italy |
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Tojo |
Leader of War in Japan |
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FDR |
US President before Truman, dies in office before the end of WWII |
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Stalin |
Leader of Soviet Union (Totalitarian State) |
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Big Three |
US, England, Soviet Union |
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Axis Powers |
Germany, Italy, Japan |
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Battle of the Bulge |
Germany's last offensive battle push in WWII and they lost |
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D-Day |
The storming of Normandy |
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Saipan |
Allies left Pearl Harbor and attacked the Island of Saipan and defeated the Japanese |
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Atlantic |
Ran from 1939 to 1945 and it was water battles between Allies and Germany |
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01 September 1939 |
Invasion of Poland |
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June 1941 |
Invasion of Soviet Union |
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07 December 1941 |
Pearl Harbor |
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04-07 June 1942 |
Battle of Midway |
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06 June 1944 |
D-Day |
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08 May 1945 |
V-E Day |
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06 August 1945 |
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima |
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14 August 1945 |
Japanese surrender made public |
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02 September 1945 |
Japan Officially Surrenders |
