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37 Cards in this Set
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giving in to the demands of an aggressor in order to keep the peace
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appeasement
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opposition to all war
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pacifism
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Avoided involvement in the war for the US
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Neutrality Acts
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Tome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
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Axis Powers
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A conservative general who led a revolt that touched off a bloddy war
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Francisco Franco
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union of Austria and Germany
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Anschluss
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a region of western Czechoslovakia
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Sudetenland
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bound Hitler and Stalin to peaceful relations
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Nazi-Soviet Pact
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"lightning war"
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blitzkrieg
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German air force
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Luftwaffe
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beach were the Britain soldiers were stranded
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Dunkirk
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German "puppet state", France's capital
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Vichy
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"desert Fox" pushed Britain back across the desert toward the Cairo, Egypt
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General Erwin Rommel
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detention centers for civilians considered enemies of the states
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concentration camps
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The Nazis massacre of six million Jews.
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Holocaust
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Allowed the president to sell or lend war materials to countries that were in need of it
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Lend-Lease Act
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symbolized women helping in industries to help the war
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Rosie the Riveter
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ships that transport aircraft and accomodate the take-off and landing of airplanes
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aircraft carrier
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Took command of a joint British and American force in Morocco and defeated Rommel
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Dwight Eisenhower
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were Hitler only got to while trying to get the rich oil fields of the south of Russia
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Stalingrad
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June 6, 1944, invasion of France
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D-Day
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meeting of the big three
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Yalta conference
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May 8, 1945, after Germany surrender
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V-E Day
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Japanese soldiers killing many American and Filipinos in Philippines
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Bataan Death March
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led the American army towards Japan
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Douglas MacArthur
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goal was to recapture some Japanese-held islands
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island-hopping
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pilots who crashed their planes
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kamikaze
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code name for research done to harness the atomic bomnb
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Manhattan Project
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First city to be hit by the atomic bomb
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Hiroshima
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second city to be hit by the atomic bomb
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Nagasaki
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Were Allied held war crime trials
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Nuremberg
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helped world affairs and invovled 50 nations
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United Nations
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a states of tension and hostility between aligned withthe United States on one side and the SOviet Union on the other
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Cold War
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rooted in the idea of containment, limited communism to the areas already under Soviet controls
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Truman Doctrine
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massive aid package
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Marshall Plan
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New military alliance of the US, Canada, and ten other countries
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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Soviet Union's own military alliance
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Warsaw Pacts
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