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41 Cards in this Set
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iron curtain |
division between east and west Europe |
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atomic bomb |
ended the war with Japan |
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comfort women |
sex slaves |
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Axis powers |
japan italy germany |
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allied powers |
france britain us ussr |
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berlin airlift |
thing that goes from West Berlin to East Berlin done by the United States military flew every 3 minutes 24 hours a day |
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united nations |
world organization dedicated to world peace |
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containment |
uS trying to stop the spread of communism |
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yalta conference |
discussing a post war europe |
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Potsdam conference |
discussing the allied occupation in Europe |
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final solution |
killing all the jews |
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de-stalinization |
Krutzhec stopping the terror of the soviet union |
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rape of nanjing |
Japanese atrocites |
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collaboration |
working with the enemy |
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manchuria |
northern part of China that Japan took over |
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Dresden |
Us bombed the crap out of it |
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stalingrad |
turning point of WWII most important |
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Midway |
turning point of the war in the pacific |
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Munich |
meeting where Britain and France gave in to Germany |
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Brezhnev Doctrine |
states that any elements hostile to communism will be bad opposite of truman doctrine invades and kills all |
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Prague Spring |
in 1968 in czechoslavkia they rose up against communist rule it didn’t work |
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MAD |
mutally assured destruction policy to not attack from the Soviets and Us |
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NATO |
NATO- North Atlantic treaty organization and the biggest alliance with Europe and the US |
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Marshall Plan |
money given to stop the spread of communism |
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Truman Doctrine |
do whatever we can to stop the spread of communism |
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Wannsee Conference |
nazis decided to kill all the Jews in Europe |
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Greater E.A. Co-Prosperity Sphere |
what Japan used to justify taking over east and south asia |
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Asia for Asians |
Japan reasoning for why they were doing what they were doing |
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Lend -Lease |
us lent military supplies to Britain get military bases |
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Stalin |
hero the russian resistance |
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Operation Barbarossa |
nazi invasion |
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Lebensraum |
living space reasons nazis took over eastern europe |
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Battle of Britain |
Nazis tried to bomb england into submission they failed |
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Luftwaffe |
Nazi airforce |
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U-boats |
German submarine |
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Blitzkrieg |
german plane bomb from the air and then land and invade |
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Tripartite Pact |
neutrality between the USSR and Germany |
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appeasement |
giving in to the demands of an aggressor |
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Ethiopia |
invaded at the beginning by Italy |
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Anschluss |
Germany annexxed Austria |
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Non-Aggression Pact |
aggrement between the soviet union and Nazi germany to leave eachother alone |
