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68 Cards in this Set
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George Patton |
general of the third army |
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douglas MacArthur |
American commander in the Phillippines |
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Hideki Tojo |
Japanese Chief of staff |
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Joseph Stalin |
Dictator of U.S.S.R |
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Neville Chamberlain |
Proclaimed "Peace in our time" |
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Charles de Gaulle |
french genral who fled to england |
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winston churchill |
british prime minister |
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adolf hitler |
german dictator |
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benito Mussolini |
Itallian Fascist dictator |
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chester Nimitz |
commander of american naval forces |
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james doolittle |
led U.S. air raid of 16 bombers over tokyo |
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J. Robert Oppenheimer |
scientist who developed the atomic bomb |
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hirohito |
emperor of Japan |
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harry truman |
u.s president who ordered the atomis bomb on Japan |
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Audie Murohy |
Most decorated Hero |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt |
the U.S. Presidemt |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower |
U.S. supreme commander |
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Final Solution |
What hitler called the Holocaust |
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Manhatten Project |
U.S. program to build the atomic bomb |
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Holocaust |
the systematic murder of jews and others |
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internment camps |
Where japanese were held during the war |
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D-day |
the invasion of Normandy coast |
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rationing |
fixed amounts of goods |
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Allies |
U.S., Canada, France, U.S.S.R, Australia |
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Axis Powers |
Germany, Japan, Italy, and others |
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Lend- Lease Act |
Law that allowed U.S. ship arms and supplies |
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Concentration camp |
Nazi prison where slaves worked, starved, and/or died |
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Kristallnacht |
night of the broken glass |
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maginot line |
a conentration of french forces and fortifications which the germans simply flanked |
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Blitzkreig |
speed and concentration, attacking hard and fast, used by germany |
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Nonaggression pact |
an agreement between hitler and stalin to carve up poland |
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appeasment |
giving up principles in an attempt to pacify an aggression |
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fascism |
a political movement stressing beligerent nationalism |
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main Kampf |
Hitlers book |
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wolf pack |
concentration of german submarines |
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German worker's party |
Nazis |
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event in 1983 was an example of appeassment |
the muncih coference where western powers gave hitler what he wanted |
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what region did hitler demand czech give to him |
Sudetenland |
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desert fox |
Erwin Rommel |
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what nation did the us decide should be defeated first |
Germany |
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Luftwaffe |
German air force |
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spitfire |
British fighter planes |
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nation that introduced the tiger tank |
Germany |
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the Zero |
Japanese fighter plane |
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new technology that helped the britsih win |
Radar |
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region of the world that contained most men fighting |
eastern front of Europe |
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Nation the first introduced the act of aggression |
Japan |
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Atlantic Charter |
List of U.S. and British War aims |
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what did stalin plead to the allied leader after hitler attacked Russia |
open up a second war front against germany |
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The battle that was the turning point on the Eastern front between Gemrnay and the U.S.S.R |
Stalingrad |
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natural forces tha thelped the Russians |
Cold russian Winter |
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How did hitler die |
suicide |
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island hopping |
attacking Japanese - occupied islands one by one to cut off supplies and control air bases |
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Japan's last island to fall |
Okinawa |
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name of the battleship upon which the japanese surrendered |
Hiroshima and Nagaski |
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Operation torch |
the allied assault in North Africa |
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Largest group of americans to surrender took place where |
The Batan penninsula in the phillipnes |
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last major german offensive |
Battle of the Bulge |
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leader that gave important concessions at the Yalta Conference |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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what city did the Allies murder Nazis |
Nuremburg |
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which nation surrendered first |
Germany |
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What did Stalin promise at the Yalta conference |
Free and unfettered elections |
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japans first defeat on land |
Guadalcanal |
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native american tribe that contributed a special code to the war |
Navajo |
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FOur locations in the western united states |
arizona= posto and Gile river cali= tule lake and manzanar |
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all black squadron |
Tuskegee Airmen |
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Know the order of these |
invades poland, defeats france, invades the U.S.S.R, pearl Harbor |
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Know the order of these |
Dunkirk, pearl harbor, coral sea, midway, stalingrad, d-day |
