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20 Cards in this Set
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Adolf Hitler
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arrested after Beer Hall Putsch
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Francisco Franco
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Fascist leader of Spain
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Neville Chamberlain
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Used policy of appeasement towards Germany at the Munich Conference
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Emporer Hirohito
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Emperor of Japan
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Joseph Stalin
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Communist leader of the Soviet Union
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Winston Churchill
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British Prime Minister during the Battle of Britain and the rest of the war
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Harry Truman
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President who decided to drop the bomb on Hiroshima
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Dwight Eisenhower
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Supreme Allied Commander in europe
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Franklin Roosevelt
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died at the beginning of his 4th term
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Douglas MacArthur
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"I shall return" after the Phillipines fell to Japanh
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nation that signed the nonaggression pact w/Germany that led to the invasion of Poland
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Soviet Union
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Hitler annexed this country
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Austria
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Britain and France followed a policy of appeasement by
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submitting to Hitler's demands
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1st raid against Japanese after Pearl Harbor
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Doolittle's Raid
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Spanish Civil War
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training ground for Axis Powers
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Tuskegee Airmen
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all black Army Air Corps
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war that broke out between the Soviet Union and the US because of the nuclear arms race
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the Cold War
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Rosie the Riveter
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name given to the women in the workforce during WWII
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Dunkirk
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massive evacuation of British and French troops to England
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Night of the Long Knives
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When Hitler eliminated his political competition
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