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32 Cards in this Set
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Rape of Nanjing
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-1937
-Japan invaded and occupied China and killed over 400 thousand Chinese residents -most gruesome example of brutality tied to racial superiority the world had seen |
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Main Axis Powers
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Germany, Italy, Japan
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Main Allied Powers
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Britain, Russia, France, China, USA, Latin America
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Russian-German treaty of non-aggression
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Hitler proposed this treaty because he was taking over Western Europe and didn't want to have to fight on the East too. Once he was comfortable with the west, he broke the treaty and Invaded Russia
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Blitzkreig
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(Lightning War) a strategy where there was no declared war, only surprise attacks. The Air force would soften resistance. Then, tanks would roll in. Finally, Soldiers would march in to clean up any remaining resistance
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Luftwaffe
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German air force
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Panzer
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German tank units
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Schrechtlicheit
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(frightfulness) the tern the Germans used for countries that surrendered rather than endure German attacks (like Denmark and Norway)
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Battle of Britain
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German Luftwaffe tried to defeat Britain almost solely by air attack. The British Royal Air Force won, but it costed them over 40 thousand civilian deaths.
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Lebensraum
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(Living Space) Nazis expelled or exterminated Jews, Slavs, and Bolsheviks from their homelands to create room for their "Master Race" to live
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Operation Barbarossa
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The german Codename for their surprise invasion of the Soviet Union. It began in June of 1941, and by December 1941, they reached Moscow. Even though the Russians suffered many casualties, they were able to defeat the Germans in December. (Brutal Russian Winter Helped)
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Pearl Harbor
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(December 7, 1941) Japanese Navy bombed the american Pacific fleet located in Hawaii in hopes of destroying all American naval Capacity in the Pacific and clearing the way for Japanese conquest of all Southeast Asia.
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What Happened directly After Pearl Harbor?
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United States declared war on japan the next day (December 8, 1941), Hitler and Mussolini Declared War on USA on December 11, and America declared war on Germany later the same day
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Land Lease Act
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(1941) Even though the United States didn't officially enter the war until December, this act made american weapons and goods readily available to the allies
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Island Hopping
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a strategy in which the Allies captured Islands from which they could launch direct air assaults on Japan. Some of the Islands where the fighting was most brutal were Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
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Kamikaze
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(suicide) a strategy of Japanese pilots in which they used their planes to dive-bomb Allied ships. Their fierce resistance convinced Americans that the Japanese would never give in.
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Atomic Bombs
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(Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
resulted in the deaths of over two hundred thousand civilans coupled with the Russians declaring war against Japan in August 1945, Finally compelled Japanese Emperor Hirohito to surrender. |
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September 2, 1945
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The date that the Japanese surrendered
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Holocaust
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the extermination over 12 million European Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, Homosexuals, Physically/mentally handicapped, and anyone else deemed undesirable.
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Einsatzgruppen (SS)
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(Action Squads) Nazi Soldiers that successfully exterminated Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, Homos, Handicapped, etc.
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Wannsee Conference
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(final solution) a meeting where it was decided to evacuate all of the remaining European Jews to concentration camps in eastern Poland where they would be worked to death or executed.
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Anschluss
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Germany's forced union with Austria in 1938 that Hitler justified as part of a natural rejoining of German people separated by artificial boundaries. Because Britain and France didn't do anything to stop this, Germany continued to Invade parts of Europe
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Appeasement
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Practiced by Britain and France, the policy of appeasement allowed these countries to ignore Germany's aggressive actions in order to keep peace.
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Official beginning of WWII in Europe?
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September 1, 1939, Germany invades Poland
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Japan's Invasion of Manchuria
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Japan's conquest of Manchuria in 1931-32 was the first major step in Japans process of aggression and expansionism
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When and Where was operation Overlord?
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Operation Overlord (D-Day) was an invasion of Normandy, France on June 6 1944.
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What was the purpose of Operation Overlord?
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To connect Utah Beach and Omaha Beach and destroy all guns and cannons pointed towards the beach. Paratroopers landed in the middle of the night and they are the reason that tanks and ships could roll onto the beaches later on in the day.
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How many vessels were involved in the D-Day invasion?
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6,000
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How many paratroopers jumped on D-Day?
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13,400
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Ghettos
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sealed, segregated cities that Jews were sent to where starvation, overcrowding, exposure to cold, and contagious diseases killed tens of thousands of people
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Auschwitz
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-doubled as a concentration camp and killing center
-over 1 million killed here -155 buildings |
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Ellie Wiesel
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Holocaust surviver, author or Night
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