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Germany During the 1930s |
During the 1930’s, Germany was in a terrible economic depression and many individuals were not working. Because of this, the Germans were obviously vulnerable and would do anything to acquire a job; Hitler saw this as an advantage and decided to take action. Germany’s economic depression was soon alleviated and Hitler rose to power. |
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Munich Conference |
Adolf Hitler had demanded the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia; British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain tried to talk him out of it. |
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Lend-Lease Act |
Congress authorized the sale, lease, transfer, or exchange of arms and supplies to 'any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the United States’. |
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Nazi-Soviet Pact |
a non-aggression pact were a perceived guarantee of non-belligerence by each party towards the other, and a written commitment that neither party would ally itself to, or aid, an enemy of the other party. |
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Nuremberg Laws |
laws which institutionalized many of the racial theories prevalent in Nazi ideology. The laws excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship and prohibited them from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of "German or related blood”. Also required that all Jews were the star of David on all of their clothing and prohibited them from going to the movies, and even parks. |
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Battle of Stalingrad |
a major battle fought between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. |
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Bataan Death March |
A 65-mile march made by 60,000-80,000 Filipino and American prisoners on April 9, 1942. |
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Yalta Conference |
a meeting of the British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt early in February 1945 as WWII was winding down. There FDR gained free trade and democracy while both Stalin and Churchill agreed to the spheres of influence and protection of borders. |
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Battle of the Coral Sea |
The Battle of the Coral Sea was fought during May 4-8 1942 and was major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. This battle was an important turning point the Pacific because, for the first time, the Allies had stopped the Japanese advance. |
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Battle of Midway |
A naval and air battle fought in WWII in which planes from American aircraft carriers blunted the naval attack in the Pacific Ocean after Pearl Harbor, making it a turning point in the Pacific war. |
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Battle of the Bulge |
This battle lasted from the 16th of December 1944 to the 25th of January 1945. It was a major German offensive campaign launched through the Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxemburg on the Western Front. |
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D-day |
On June 6, 1944 when the Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. It was a successful victory for the Allied forces. |
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Blitzkrieg |
an unexpected and overwhelming military attack. |
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Maginot Line |
The French line that was constructed along the country’s border with Germany during the 1930’s but it was ineffective since it was unable to prevent an invasion by German troops. |
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Circle of Depression |
The United States was the #1 economy in the 1920’s and was giving out loans a lot of countries like Germany, France and England. France and England owed millions to the United States because they were constantly taking out loans that they could not pay back. All of these countries also began to invest in the U.S stock market. |
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Axis Powers |
Germany (Adolf Hitler), Italy (Benito Mussolini), Japan (Hideki Tojo), Hungary (Miklos Horthy), Romania Ion Antonescu, Bulgaria (Boris III). |
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Allied Powers |
U.S (FDR and Truman), Britain (Winston Churchill), France (Charles de Gaulle), USSR (Joseph Stalin), Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada , China, Denmark, Greece,Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Yugoslavia |
