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34 Cards in this Set
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What did Hitler believe about the Western powers using force to maintain the Treaty of Versailles?
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Western powers had no intention of using force
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What was the turning point of the war in the Pacific?
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Battle of Midway Island
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What percentage of European Jews were killed during the Holocaust?
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66.6%
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Who administered the Nazi Final Solution?
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Reinhard Heydrich
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What was decided at the Tehran Conference?
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the final assault Germany
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What did President Truman try to avoid by using atomic weapons on Japan?
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mass casualties of American troops
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How did Europe react to the German attack on Poland?
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Britain and France declared war on Germany
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What area of Czechoslovakia did Hitler demand and receive?
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Sudetenland
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When the Nazi's decided the Einsatzgruppen were moving too slowly, what did they speed up the Final Solution?
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created extermination camps
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Two days after hitler invaded THIS COUNTRY, Britain and France declared war on Germany
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Poland
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What is appeasement?
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satisfying reasonable demands of dissatisfied powers in an effort maintain peace and stability
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What happened on December 7,1941?
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Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor
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What is blitzkrieg?
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"lightning war"
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Why was the Battle of Stalingrad crushing defeat for Germany?
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Germany lost the entire 6th army
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What is the period of political tension following WWII called?
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Cold war
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What was the Holocaust?
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mass slower of European Jews
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Who were collaborators?
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people were assisted the enemy
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What did Roosevelt want for the European states?
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self determination
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What prevented the United States from taking sides at the beginning of WWII?
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a series of neutrality acts, isolation
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What was Executive Order 9066?
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order that sent Japanese Americans into internment camps
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How did the Germans react to the french construction of the Maginot Line?
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they went around it and attacked France from the Belgium border
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Name the country that was allied with Hitler before the war,then became an enemy during WWII
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Soviet Union
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The day of Allied invasion of the coast of Normandy, France is called?
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D-DAY
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The Treaty of Versailles made the Rhineland a demilitarized area, What is a demilitarized zone?
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couldn't have weapons or fordavacation
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What is genocide?
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physical extermination of a group of people
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Which race was superior to all other races and nationalities?
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Aryan Race
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What did the United States threaten to impose if Japan did not withdraw from China?
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economice sanctions
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What was the Anti-Comintern Pact?
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alliance between Germany and Japan promising a from against communism
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Who was the leader of Hitler's SS troops?
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Heinrich Himmler
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What is considered to be history's greatest naval invasion?
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D-Day, Battle of Normandy
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What Japanese city was the first atomic bomb dropped on?
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Hiroshima
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What is isolationism ?
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policy of americans, staying out of the political affairs of other countries
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What is the German air force called?
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Luftwaffe
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What is a kamikaze?
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Japanese suicide pilots
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