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46 Cards in this Set
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Hitlers Targets |
Gypsies, homosexuals and Jews- he started killing them because he kept taking the countries he would kick them to |
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U.S. Women |
They worked to make the items needed for the war |
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Characters of Facism |
Extreme nationalism, social Darwinism, and blind loyalty |
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Battle of Midway |
4 Japanese carriers were destroyed and 1 US carrier was destroyed-US Won |
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Stalingrad |
Was a huge turning point in the war because Russia finally won and turned the Germans back |
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El Alamein |
Turing point in the war in Africa-British win and push in to Italy |
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D-Day |
Overall commander was Eisenhower- The worst fighting was on Omaha Beach- the Allies won |
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Battle of Bulge |
Hitlers last attempt to beat the Allies and he fail |
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Generals Who crossed the Rhine first |
Bradley
Patton Montgomery |
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Hitler |
was a leader of Germany and he was put in jail because he started a revolt he Wrote Mein Kompf while in jail then he committed suicide two and is reign
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Island hopping |
The US fought from island to island to get to Japan |
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Countries Japan took |
China Philippines, Korea |
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Internment camps |
Americans of Japanese decent were placed in these after the Pearl Harbor attack |
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Kamikaze |
Means divine wind and they were Japanese pilots who would fly planes into boats |
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Douglas Mac- arthur |
General for the Us in the pacific who said I have returned when he retook the Philippines |
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IWo Jima |
An island that a famous flag raising took place on |
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Estimated Allied casualties to take Japan |
1,000,000 |
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Truman |
Was president of the US after FDR ordered atomic bombs dropped on Japan 1st one was on August 6 1945 3 days later second one was dropped |
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Allies |
Won WWII |
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Germany after war |
Was spilt into 4 seconds |
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USS Missouri |
US. Ship the Japanese surrendered on |
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Numbering trials |
We're very famous because they dealt with the biggest and worst criminals |
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FDR |
Leader of the US at the start of WWII |
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Mussolini |
Leader of Italy member of the Fascist party |
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Winston Chruchill |
Leader of England |
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Hirohito |
Leader of Japan |
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Jiang Jeshi |
Leader of China |
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Stalin |
Leader of Russia |
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Chamberlain |
Prime minister of England before the start of WWII |
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Montgomery |
General for the British at El Alamein |
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Nazi Soviet pact |
Divided Poland and agreed to stay out of each other's wars |
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Blitzkrieg |
Lightening war |
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Magi not line |
A line on the border of France and Germany used by the French to keep Germans out |
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Battle of Britian |
The British Air Force beat the German Air Force |
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Hitler bombs london |
Wanted to destroy London because he was mad because the RAF had taken out most of his planes |
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Operation Barbossa |
Hitler plan to invade Russia |
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Leningrand |
A city in Russia that the Germans laid seige to for over a year killing one million people. |
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Pearl harbor |
Dec.7 1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbor drawing the US into WWII |
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Weimar Republic |
The government set up in Germany after the WWII |
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Australia |
First country to annexed by Germany |
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Rhineland |
Hitler wanted this because it was most industrialized and it was a demilitarized zone |
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Sudetenland |
Hitler wanted this part of Czechoslovakia |
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Poland |
Hitler started WWII by invading this country on Sept 1 1939 |
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Vichy France |
The name of the government of France during the nazi Occupation |
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Axis Powers |
Germany Italy Japan |
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Allied Powers |
Russia Britain France America |