Ww2 Vocab

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Non aggression pact

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Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to have peace and secretly divide Poland

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Blitzkrieg

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Lightning warfare

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Charles de Gaulle

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A French general who set up a government -in-exile in London

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Dunkirk

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Battle where British were surrounded but Germany didn't make a move so British boats evacuated soldiers

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Winston Churchill

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The prime minister of Britain who was really good at public speeches

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Battle of Britain

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Bombs from the Luftwaffe rained on Britain until the RAF fought back and Germany retreated.

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Erwin Rommel

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Commanded the Africa korps

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Bernard law Montgomery

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Commander of all land forces that are involved in operation overlord. (Fought under Eisenhower's command)

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Atlantic charter

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Roosevelt and Churchill joint declaration, which outlined the purpose of the war.

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Roosevelt

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U.s president built wartime coalition with Soviet Union and Britain

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Isoroku Yamamoto

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Japans greatest naval strategist who called for the attack on pearl harbor

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Pearl harbor

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Japanese attack on u.s military base in Hawaii

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Battle of Midway

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On midway Island. Allies won and it was a turning point for the war.

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Douglas McArthur

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Commander of allied land forces in Pacific

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Battle of Guadalcanal

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A bloodbath. Japanese called it the island of death. Simply hell

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Kristallnacht

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(glass everywhere) Nazis rounded up 30,000 Jews and sent them to concentration camps

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Ghettos

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Where Jews were forced to live.

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The final solution

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Dehumanize Jews and kill them

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Genocide

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The mass killings of people

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Holocaust

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The systematic mass murder of Jews

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Achewitz birkenou

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The biggest concentration camp

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Battle of Stalingrad

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Germans bombed Stalingrad but the winter got to them

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Joseph Stalin

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Leader of the USSR, dictator

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Dwight d Eisenhower

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Spoon to be president and lead an army in morroco and Algeria

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D-Day

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Invasion of Normandy was the largest sea and land attack in history

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Battle of the bulge

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Germans broke wean American defence along ardennes

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George s Patton

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Led armies from north Africa to Sicily

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Kamikaze

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Japanese suicide bombers

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The atomic bomb

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Dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima to end the war

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The nuremburg trials

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Tried generals and leaders that committed war crimes

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Atlantic theater

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The fight in the Atlantic

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Pacific theater

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The fight against Japan in the Pacific

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Ww2 movie

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Saving Private Ryan