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57 Cards in this Set
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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Multi-nation treaty saying that war cannot be used as an instrument of national policy
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Great Depression
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Severe Worldwide Economic Depression after WWII
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New Deal
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FDR's new plan for the economy of the US
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Inflation
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When a nation's currency become worth less
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Appeasement
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Giving in
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Pacifism
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Not believing in violence
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Spanish Civil War
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A conflict after a group of spanish generals tried to take over the spanish government
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Francisco Franco
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Leader of the group who tried to take over the government before the spanish civil war.
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Axis Powers
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Germany Japan Italy
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Isolationism
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Staying out of war with other countries. Staying out of European affairs
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Munich Conference
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Permitted the annexation of the sudeten land of Czechoslovakia
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Nonaggression Pact
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USSR and Germany would not attack each other. Bought Time
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Anchluss
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Annexation of Austria by the Nazis
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Sudetenland
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Annexed area in Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany
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Neville Chamberlain
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Prime Minister of GB
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Winston Churchill
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Prime Minister of GB. Saved GB in WWII
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Franklin Roosevelt
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President of US during WWII. New Deal and Great Depression
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Blitzkrieg
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Lightning war. Tactic by Germany
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Maginot Line
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Fortified line by France, intended to block against Germany. Didn't Work
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Charles De Gaulle
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French General who fought even after the French were defeated.
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Battle of Britain
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Giant Battle in which GB fought of Germany with airforce
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Dunkirk
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GB and US forces went to and saved hundreds of thousands of soldiers at dunkirk
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Vichy
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Puppet Government in France
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RAF
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The British Royal Airforce
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Luftwaffe
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German Air Force
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Erwin Rommel
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Desert Fox
German General in Africa |
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Operation Barbarossa
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Nazi Germany's invasion of the USSR
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Operation Overlord
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D-Day. US and GB forces storm Normandy France
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Bernard Montgomery
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Commanding Allies in El Alamein.
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El Alamein
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North African Battle. Turning Point of the war. Ally Victory
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Atlantic Charter
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Blueprint for the world after World War II
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Lend-Lease Act
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US could lend Allies supplies and weapons.
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Douglas MacArthur
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US general. proposed invasion of japan
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Yamamoto
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Naval Officer for Japan
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Pearl Harbor
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Base in Hawaii bombed by Japan. US entrance into the war.
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Island-Hopping
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Taking islands to get closer to Japan
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Battle of Midway
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Most important Naval battle of WWII. Defeated Japanese Navy
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Holocaust
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Nazi plan to enslave and eliminate all jews and other deemed inferior
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Genocide
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Systematic killing of an entire people
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Concentration Camps
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Places where Jews would work until death
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Kristallnacht
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Night of Broken Glass. Start of the Holocaust
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Aryans
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the "Superior Race"
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Ghetto
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Bad Conditioned places where Jews were forced to live
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Final Solution
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The Final Plan to finish of the "inferiors"
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Auschwitz
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The Largest Concentration Camp
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Dwight Eisenhower
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Supervised D-Day, was a 5 star general, and became a supreme commander of NATO
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Battle of Stalingrad
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USSR and allies fought of Germany and the Axis powers for Stalingrad. Led to surrender of Germany
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Battle of Bulge
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Last German offensive. Failed
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Kamikaze
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Divine Winds. Suicide Bombers
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Iwo Jima
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one of the islands on the way to Japan by Island Hopping
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Okinawa
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Another Island
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Truman
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President after Roosevelt
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Manhattan Project
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Project to develop the atomic bomb
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Hiroshima
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First japanese city that was bombed
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Nagasaki
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Second City that was bombed
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V-J day
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Victory in Japan Day
August 14, 1945 |
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USS Missouri
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Where the Peace Treaty was signed.
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