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27 Cards in this Set
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appeasement
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granting concessions to maintain peace
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Chiang Kai-shek
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leader of China's national government, Chinese, 1937
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Francisco Franco
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Spanish, leader of nationalists/general, 1936
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What about Czechoslovakia's location gave it such strategic value in Hitler's eyes?
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access to southeastern europe, between germany and austria
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How was the response by the League of Nations to the Japanese expansion in 1933 similar to the response by the Western democracies to German expansion in 1938?
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neither response changed land grabbing behavior, League of Nations more direct in its sensure of Japan's behavior, Hitler agreed at first cause agreement was in his favor, but Japan never agreed to League of Nations and withdrew.
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Winston Churchill
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Bristih, prime minister - king asked him to form a new government, 1940
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Charles de Gaulle
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French, tank commander/founded the French resistance, 1940
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What happened in 1931?
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Japan attacked and took over Manchuria
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What were the 6 months after Britain and France declared war called?
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The Phony War
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What change of strategy by the Germans "saved" Britain?
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The Luftwaffe - they switched stategy from attacking British airfields to attackinig London
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What happened on June 22, 1941?
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Germany invaded Russia - Operation Barbarossa
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What happended in June 1941?
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Japanese took French Indochina and the US declared an embargo on war supplies
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Did Germany declare war on US or vice verse?
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Germany declared war on US
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What two decisive battles took place in the South Pacific?
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Coral Sea and Midway
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Genocide
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the deliberate, planned killing of an entire people ont he basis of race, politics, or culture
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How did WWII turn into a large-scale global conflict?
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Japanese expansion, Pearl Harbor, Hitler's invasion of Russia, Hitler went back on deals
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Erwin Rommel
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German, commander of the Afrika Korps, 1942
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Douglas MacArthur
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American, commander of troops in the Pacific, 1942
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Why did the Allies decide to "leapfrog" their way to Japan rather than launch a direct attack?
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cutt off supplies forced them to surrender
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partisans
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resistance fighters - ususally italian
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clement attlee
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British, replaced churchill as prime minister, 1945
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Explain why Operation Overload has been called "unmatched in history".
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never been a military operation as large and well planned
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List two things US did on homefront to get ready for war.
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Strealined the economy, rationed, draft
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When did Germany surrender?
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Early May 1945
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When/where was the 2nd European front opened?
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June 6, 1944 @ Normandy, France
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List three things that happened in Japan to conclude the war.
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bombed Hiroshima, bombed Nagasaki, Japan surrendered
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What happenend at the Yalta conference?
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Europe was divided into two camps - US and Soviet
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