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43 Cards in this Set
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Joseph Stalin
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Communist dictator of the Soviet Union
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fascism
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nationalistic, totalitarian mass movement
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Benito Mussolini
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dictator of Fascist Italy
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Adolf Hitler
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dictator of Nazi Germany
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Mein Kampf
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book Hitler wrote; proposed eliminating Jews, ending democracy in Germany and creating a new German order
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Hideki Tojo
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military head of Japan
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appeasement
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attempt to satisfy a dictator by giving in to his demands
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Charles Lindbergh
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American hero who became a leading spokesman for isolationism
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Rhineland
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an industrial region of Germany near Alsace-Lorraine that was supposed to be a demilitarized zone; first area Germany occupied
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Anschluss
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union of Austria and Germany
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beginning of World War II (Sept. 1, 1939)
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when Germany invaded Poland,it brought the rest of Europe into the war
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blitzkrieg
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"lightning war"
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Dunkirk
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the German's surrounded the Allied forces here; watercraft of all kinds crossed the English Channel and rescued 330,000 men
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Neville Chamberlain
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British champion of appeasement; "Peace in our time"
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Winston Churchill
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British prime minister
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Battle of Britain
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air combat over England
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Franklin Roosevelt
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U.S. president during most of World War II
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Wehrmacht
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German army
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Wendell Willkie
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Republican candidate for president in 1940
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Lend-Lease Act
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empowered the president to supply any Allied nation on almost any terms he wihed
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Douglas MacArthur
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commander of all American forces in the Far East
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Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (Dec. 7, 1941)
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event that brought the United States into World War II
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internment
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placement of people in detention camps
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Battle of Midway
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the turning point of the war in the Pacific
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Chester W. Nimitz
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American admiral commanding U.S. forces at the Battle of Midway
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rationing
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government limitations on the purchase of scarce goods
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Erwin Rommel
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the famous German "Desert Fox"
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Bernard Montgomery
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British commander who helped to defeat the Germans in North Africa
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Operation Torch
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this desert war in North Africa was where American forces first fought the Germans
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Normandy
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section of northern France the Allied Expeditionary Force (AEF) landed in 1944
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Supreme Allied Commander in Europe
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D-day (June 6, 1944)
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Allied Expeditionary Force (AEF) invaded Normandy, France; this was the Allied forces first invasion of Europe and a critical victory
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Battle of the Bulge
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winter battle in which the Nazis counterattack against the Allied invasion of Europe almost stopped the advance into Germany
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island hopping
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Allied strategy for the defeat of Japan
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kamikazes
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Japanese suicide pilots
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Harry Truman
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U.S. president at the close of World War II
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Holocaust
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massacre of millions of Jews and others the Nazis considered "lesser peoples"
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atomic bomb
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secret weapon used against Japan to end the war in the Pacific
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Hiroshima
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first atomic bomb was dropped in this Japanese city
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What nations made up the Big Three? Who represented each nation at Yalta?
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United States - Roosevelt, Great Britain - Churchill, and Soviet Union - Stalin
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What were Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms"?
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freedom of speech and of worship, and freedom from want and from fear
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Due to the war, Americans saw an increase in what in the United States?
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they saw an increase in the national debt, in the number of working women and in taxes
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What did "Rosie the Riveter" symbolize during World War II?
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working women
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