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31 Cards in this Set
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Blitzkrieg |
Means lightening war Radio was an essential tool |
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Propaganda |
Radio movies and posters |
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Pearl harbor |
Brought American industry into the war |
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Holocaust |
Systematic killing by the Nazis |
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Decolonization |
Ruling system removed leaving a vacuum for dictators and tyrants |
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Nuclear arms race |
Competition for supremacy between us and Soviet union |
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Paratroopers |
Invented by germans , air support , captured targets without destroying them |
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Ultra |
German secret code (was deciphered) |
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Coral Sea |
First naval battle fought exclusively in the air |
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Battle of Britain |
German bombers attacked industrial sites but also bombed London killing civilians |
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Mutual Assured Destruction |
An attack on the other would be devastating to themselves |
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ICBMs |
Intercontinental ballistic missiles |
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German commanders |
Given an unusual amount of freedom because the war was moving so quickly. |
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propaganda used against the enemy |
Emotional triggers and negative imagery of the enemy |
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Major turning point of ww2 |
Pearl Harbor, battle of midway ,Stalingrad, d-day |
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Why did Germany invade russia? |
Attempt to neutralize potential enemy and acquire much needed resources |
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Why did Germany's invasion fail? |
Blitzkrieg wasn't fast enough, underestimated the sacrifice the Russians would make, and the extreme cold |
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Most significant turning point in the war? |
Stalingrad because it denied Germany oilfields and put Germans on the defensive bleeding them of resources and men |
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Why was D-day a turning point? |
American entered the war full force and opened a third front which relieved the Russians and was a more accessible rout to Germany |
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Who was the first to attack civilians by air? |
Japan |
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Who did the allies attack? |
British dropped fire bombs on Hamburg and Dresden. US firebombed Tokyo |
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What were the results of the firebomb |
Many were burned but many were asphysicated because the bombs sucked up the oxygen in the air |
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Why did the allies win the war? |
Determination, distance, resources |
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What country shocked the world with an atomic test? |
Soviet union |
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Results of WW2 |
60 million deaths US became a super power Started the cold war Decolonozation |
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Types of terrorism? |
State sponsored or domestic |
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Video* Early German casualties? |
Germany lost 16k in Poland 500k in the beginning |
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Video* German casualties during Stalingrad? |
Lost most here. 500k. 100k pows |
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Which country lost the most soldiers and civilians during ww2? |
Soviet Union lost 8.7million |
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What country had the most Jewish citizens in the camps? |
Polish with 2.7million |
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In Asia which country lost the most civilians? |
China |
