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23 Cards in this Set
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what was the date of the start and ending of ww2? |
1939-1945 |
6 years |
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who were at allies? |
Great Britain, France, us,the Soviet Union are the main |
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who were the axis |
Germany, Japan, Italy |
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who won the war? |
the allies |
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who were the nazis and what did they do |
the nazis are hitlers political party, and they scapegoated (blamed unfairly) the Jews and the communist for Germany's problems |
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what does scapegoat mean? |
to blame unfairly |
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what were the Nuremberg laws? |
they took away citizenship,jobs,businesses, homes and rights from the German Jewish population |
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what does appease mean? |
to give a bully what they want over and over again hoping that the bullying will end |
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when did Germany take over Austria? |
March 1938 |
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what was the Munich conference? |
the leaders of England and France had a meeting with hitler about taking over the Sudetenland in northern part of Czechoslovakia. |
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how and why did the Soviet Union try to avoid war with Germany? |
•Germany and the Soviet Union made a nonaggression pact. meaning hitler and Stalin would not attack each other • they also agreed to both attack and take half of Poland without England France or the U.S. knowing |
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what is blitzkrieg? |
blitzkrieg means lightning war. using lots of tanks and airplanes to surprise and overwhelm the opposition |
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when and where do Germany attack? |
Denmark and Norway- April 1940 Holland,Belgium, Luxembourg-may 1940 |
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what is the maginot line? |
a line of forts and bunkers built by France along the French/German border after ww1 (conquered and surrender June 14th, 1940 |
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what was the battle of Britian? |
July through October 1940. great Britain won |
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when did Germany invade the soviet union |
started June 22nd 1941. Moscow and Leningrad- killed and captured hundreds of thousands of soviet soldiers. |
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why did Germany attack the Soviet Union? |
hitler wants the soviets natural resources, especially oil. hitler wanted more land for Germans to Move to. also hitler wanted to attack Stalin before Stalin attacked him |
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what does purged mean? |
gotten rid of |
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why did the U.S. get involved into the war? |
president Franklin D. Roosevelt understood how dangerous Germany was and supported England, China,and the Soviet Union by sending them weapons and supplies . this is known as the lend-lease act |
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when and what was Pearl Harbor? |
December 7th,1941. Japanese airplanes launched a surprise attack on the U.S. navy ships in Pearl Harbor Hawaii. sinking 12 ships. |
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what does preemptive strike mean? |
an attack to damage an opponent before they have a chance to damage you |
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when what and what happened after was the name of the speech FDR made? |
the day of infamy. December 8th 1941 the U.S. declared war on Japan and entered ww2 |
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how many people died? |
around 60 million |
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