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37 Cards in this Set
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appeasement
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giving in to the demands of an aggressor to keep peace
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pacifism
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opposition to all war
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Neutrality Acts
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a group of laws enacted by the US to avoid involvement in a European conflict
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Axis powers
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Germany, Italy, Japan
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Francisco Franco
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a conservative Spanish general supported by Fascists and Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War; later became dictator
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Anschluss
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union of Austria and Germany
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Sudetenland
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a region of Czechoslovakia
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Nazi-Soviet Pact
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a nonaggression pact uniting Germany and the Soviet Union
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blitzkrieg
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"lightening war" using improved tanks and airpower
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Luftwaffe
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German air force
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Dunkirk
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site of British troops stranded in France, and their rescue by sea
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Vichy
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location in France of Germany's "puppet state"
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General Erwin Rommel
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German general known as the "desert fox"
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concentration camps
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Nazi detention and killing centers for civilians considered enemies of the state
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holocaust
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the systematic genocide of about 6 million Jews by the Nazis during WWII
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Lend-Lease Act
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law allowing FDR to sell or lend war materials to those who were fighting for freedom
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Rosie the Riveter
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the character who symbolized the millions of women working in essential war industry jobs
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aircraft carrier
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a ship from which aircrafts can take off and land
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Dwight Eisenhower
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a decorated WWII general who later became president of the US
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Stalingrad
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site of one of the costliest battles of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union
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D-day
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June 6, 1944, the day of the Allies' invasion of France
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Yalta Conference
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the February 1945 meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin where they agreed on the Soviet Union's joining the Pacific war, and on postwar arrangements
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V-E Day
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the day the Allies achieved victory in Europe, May 8, 1945
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Bataan Death March
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65-mile march suffered by American and Filipino prisoners of the Japanese
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Douglas MacArthur
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American general who led US forces in the battles to defeat Japan
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island-hopping
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the act of recapturing some Japanese-held islands while bypassing others
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kamikaze
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Japanese pilot who undertook a suicide mission
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Manhattan Project
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code name for a collaboration of Allied scientists who raced to test the first atomic bomb
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Hiroshima
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city in Japan where the first atomic bomb was dropped in August 1945
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Nagasaki
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city in Japan where the second atomic bomb was dropped in August 1945
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Nuremberg
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city in Germany where Nazi war crimes trials were held
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United Nations (UN)
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the body of nations formed to promote world peace
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Cold War
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state of tension and hostility between the US and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies; rarely resulted in direct armed conflict
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Truman Doctrine
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the policy of limiting communism to the areas already under Soviet control
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Marshall Plan
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massive aid package that funneled food and economic assistance to Europe to help with rebuilding after WWII
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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a military alliance between several North Atlantic states to safeguard them from the presumed threat of the soviet union's communist bloc
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Warsaw Pact
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the Soviet Union's military alliance with seven satellite nations in Eastern Europe
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