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14 Cards in this Set
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December 7, 1941 |
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor |
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Reinhard Heydrich |
was the leader and organizer of the special strike forces in Germany |
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Sudetenland |
area in Northern Czechoslovakia inhabited by mostly Germans |
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Rhineland |
area in Western Germany that was rich in resources and agriculture |
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New Order |
the attempt to modernize Asia and bring valuable resources to Japan |
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Demilitarized |
area of a country is not to have military weapons or fortifications |
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Appeasement |
when countries are satisfied with the reasonable demands of unsatisfied powers |
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Midway Islands |
where U. S. forces destroyed 4 Japanese aircraft carriers giving U. S. naval superiority |
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Normandy |
the beaches in Northern France where the Americans landed in order to battle German forces |
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Sanctions |
restrictions intended to enforce international law |
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kamikaze |
young Japanese pilots who volunteered for suicide missions against U.S. ships. |
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Divine Wind |
the missions that the kamikaze pilots volunteered for |
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Genocide |
the deliberate, systematic, extermination of a group or race |
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Hiroshima |
city in Japan that the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb |
