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15 Cards in this Set
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Axis Powers
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Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria
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Allied Powers
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U.S., Britain, France, USSR, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Greece, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Yugoslavia
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Blitzkrieg
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lightening war to test military strength- fast tanks and powerful aircraft to take enemies by surprise
Poland - First Country - Luftwaffe - bombs military bases - fights ended before France, Britain and allies. |
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Phony War
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Sitzkreig - Siegfried line - month long lull of war after war just began
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Battle of Britain
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Summer 1940 Germans were getting ready to invade the French Coast - Germany launched Air force - Luftwaffe bombed British Royal Air Force Bombers pounded London for two months straight - first only airfields then cities
RAF used Radar to plot German planes shot down 185 German planes only lost 26- Hitler called off invasions. Tried to break citizen morale - didn't work Airforce vs Luftwaffe |
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Lend-Lease Act
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Roosevelt ended cash and carry act and gave Britain the right to obtain all US arms it needs on credit - garden hose - America First Committee were against it - Britain and Soviet Union China
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Tojo
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Hideki Tojo made a new Japanese government made as final attempt to at an agreement – did not work. Premier of Japan
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Dunkirk
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Germany Attacked France - they won... 300,000 British troops escaped but got trapped at Dunkirk beaches.
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Pearl Harbor
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December 7, 1941 Japanese planes from aircraft carriers flew over pearl harbor and bombed every ship in sight - two hour bombing - 2,400 Americans killed - 1,100 when the Arizona sank.
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2:1
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For every two sent to Germany, one was sent to Japan
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Operation Torch
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Allied Invasion of French North Africa OMar Bradley - axis surrender Desert fox beaten Casablanca Morroco met to invade sicily and italian mainland
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Accepted US Surrender - General - Chief of the War Plans Division, Led Allies in North Africa and Europe coordinated the war effort
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George Patton
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Leader of 7th and 3rd United States Armies- Normandy Battle of the Bulge - led counterattack on germans into Nazi Germany- Operation Torch - greatest field commander of the war
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Invasion of Italy
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surprise - allies gained 150 miles quickly - Palermo - Benito Mussolini overthrown - German resistence hard to overcome rome liberated at gothic line
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Operation overlord
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INvasion of the coast of France from England not the most logical place to attack from - attack of normandy disinformation - plywood planes and inflatable tanks calais was not the tArget but we made the germans think it was
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