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46 Cards in this Set
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sanctions
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Forbidding the sale of certain materials to a country
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lebensraum
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"Living space"; Hitler's early reason for expanding German territory
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panzer
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German armored vehicle
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Luftwaffe
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Nazi Germany's air force
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appeasement
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Buying off an aggressor by territorial concession
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blitzkrieg
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"Lightning war"; fast-moving attack that sought to penetrate enemy lines
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sitzkrieg
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"Sitting war"; the beginning of World War II in the West when there were no major offenses
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fifth columnists
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Individuals within a country who secretly aid the enemy by spying, spreading enemy propaganda, carrying out acts of sabotage, or other similar activities
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amphibious
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On land or sea
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summit
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Conference of high-level officials
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banzai
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War cry shouted by Japanese troops
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kamikaze
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Japanese suicide pilots
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Third Reich
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Empire of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945
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Rome-Berlin Axis
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Alliance between Nazi Germany and fascist Italy
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Axis Powers
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Germany, Italy and Japan
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Allies
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Opponents of the Axis powers; primarily Great Britain, United States and Russia
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Munich Conference
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Conference in which Britain and France gave the Sudetenland to Hitler
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September 1, 1939
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beginning of WWII when Germany invaded Poland
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RAF
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British Royal Air Force
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December 7, 1941
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Day Japan attacked Pearl Harbor
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"Big Three"
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Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin
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Operation Overlord
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Code name for the Allied invasion of France during World War II
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D-Day (June 6, 1944)
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The day an attack is to be launched; June 6, 1944, the day the Allied forces invaded France
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Battle of the Bulge
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Germany's final attempt to push back the Allied advance into Germany after D-day
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Yalta Conference
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Meeting of Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin that recognized Soviet control of eastern Europe
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Holocaust
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Nazi Germany's attempt to exterminate the Jews
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May 8, 1945
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Germans surrendered unconditionally to the Allies
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September 2, 1945
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Japanese and Allied representatives signed the surrender document aboard the USS Missouri
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United Nations
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An international organization founded in 1945 that seeks the maintenance of international peace and security
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Sun Yat-sen
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Chinese organizer of the nationalist party
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Chiang Kai-shek
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Took control of the Chinese nationalist party after the death of Sun Yat-sen
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Mao Zedong
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led the radical communist forces in China
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Francisco Franco
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led the Fascist revolt against Spain's republican government
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Neville Chamberlain
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prime minister of Great Britain who met with Hitler and believed he had achieved "peace for out time" by yielding to Hitler's expansionistic plans in Czechoslovakia
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Edouard Daladier
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prime minister of France who represented France at the Munich Conference
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Winston Churchill
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prime minister during WWII; one of his famous quotes to the British people during the war was "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight in the fields . . . We shall never surrender."
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Vidkun Quisling
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Norwegian traitor whose name is now synonymous with being a traitor
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Henri Petain
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headed the new vichy French government in the South of France for the Germans
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Charles de Gaulle
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led the Free French movement
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Erwin Rommel
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Commander o the German forces in Africa
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Hideki Tojo
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fanatical militarist, became the virtual dictator in Japan who led the attack on Pearl Harbor
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Bernard L. Montgomery
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leader of the Allied troops in North Africa defeated the Germans in a decisive battle at El Almein
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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leader of the Allied forces in Europe
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Douglas MacArthur
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American commander in the Pacific theatre of WWII; escaped fighting in the Philippines but vowed "I shall return"
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Harry Truman
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president of the United States at the end of WWII and ordered the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan
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Clement Attlee
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British Prime Minister who replaced Winston Churchill at the end of WWII
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