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146 Cards in this Set
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The plan to unite all Germans |
The Anchluss |
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When does Paul Von Hindenburg die? |
August 2, 1934 |
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What does "perfidious albion" mean? |
It means backstabber |
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What year does Germany occupy the Rhineland |
1936 |
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What is the regular German army? |
The Wehrmacht |
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When does Germany invade Austria? |
March 1938 |
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When was the Sudetenland Crisis, Czechoslovakian Crisis? |
September 1938 |
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Who brought "peace in our time"? |
Neville Chamberlain |
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Who represented England at the Munich Conference? |
Neville Chamberlain |
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What was given to Germany by Neville Chamberlain? |
Appeasement |
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How does Germany get to keep the Sudetenland? |
The Munich Agreement |
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When does Hitler annex the rest of Czechoslovakia? |
March 1939 |
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Who signed the Non-Aggression Pact? |
Germany and Russia (Adolf and Stalin) |
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When was the Non-Aggression Pact signed? |
August 1938 |
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During the Non-Aggression Pact, who represented the Russian Minister? |
Von Ribbentrop |
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During the Non-Aggression Pact, who represented the Soviet Minister? |
Molotov |
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What are all the Baltic States? |
Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia |
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When does Germany first invade Poland? |
September 1, 1939 |
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What starts WWII? |
The German Invasion of Poland in 1939 |
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When does Britain and France declare war on Germany? |
September 3, 1939 |
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What kind of society is Japan? |
A feudal society |
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Who brings four ships into Japan's harbor? |
Matthew Perry |
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What was Japan's official religion? |
Shintoism |
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When was the Sino-Japanese War? |
1898 |
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Who wins the Sino-Japanese War? |
Japan |
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When was the Russo-Japanese War? |
1904-1905 |
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Who won the Russo-Japanese War? |
Japan |
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What year does Japan annex Korea? |
1910 |
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What does Japan rename Manchuria? |
Manchukuo |
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When does Japan invade the rest of China? |
1937 |
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What city did Japan figuratively rape? |
Nanking (The Rape of Nanking) |
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What defenseless city did Japan bomb? |
Shanghai (The Bombing of Shanghai) |
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What two sides of the Chinese civil war were there? |
Nationalists (Chiang Kai Shek) versus Communists (Mao Zedong) |
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When was Pearl Harbor? |
December 7, 1941 |
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Who said "a date that will live in infamy"? |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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Who was the commander of the Persian Gulf War? |
Schwartzkopf |
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Which General went to West Point and was #1 in his class? |
General Douglas MacArthur |
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What nation was bombed the same day as Pearl Harbor? |
The Philippines |
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Who is known as the fog of the war? |
Douglas MacArthur |
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Where does Douglas MacArthur move the troops (in retreat) while the Japanese are landed on the Philippines? |
Bataan (Not the Bataan Death March) |
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What are the soldiers that retreat to Bataan known as? |
The Battling Bastards of Bataan |
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Who was the Army Chief of Staff of America? |
George Marshall |
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Who does Roosevelt order out of the Philippines? |
Douglas MacArthur |
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What does MacArthur say as he left the Philippines? |
"I shall return" |
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How long was the Bataan Death March and how many died? |
65 miles and 3,300 dead |
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Who was the famous entertainer that visited the troops and brought entertainment to the USO? |
Bob Hope |
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What was Betty Grabel best known for? |
Her legs |
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What two islands slowed up Japan? |
Bataan and Corregidor |
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Who was the Norwegian Politician collaborating with the Nazis? |
Quisling |
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What was the German puppet government in Southern France? |
Vichy Government |
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Who was the head of the French Quislings? |
Henri Philippe Pétâin |
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What was a famous resistance movement? |
Marquis |
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What day does the USA get into the war? |
December 8, 1941 |
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Who led the "Free French"? |
Charles DeGaulle |
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What year does the French government fall to Algeria? |
1959 |
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Who led the troops against Rommel in Africa in 1942? |
Bernard Montgomery |
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What is known as the German-Italian victory against the British? |
Trobuk |
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Where was El Alamein fought? |
Egypt |
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Who wins the Battle of El Alamein? |
British |
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In June of 1942, who is known as the Allied Commander of all generals? |
Eisenhower |
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The Russians want the Allies to invade which country so they can take the pressure off of Russia? |
France
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What is the American Invasion to North Africa called? |
Operation Torch |
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Who led Operation Torch? |
George Patton |
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Who chooses Patton to lead? |
George Marshall |
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Where does Patton go for Operation Torch? |
Morocco, North Africa |
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"Ole blood & guts" |
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What do you call choosing one guy to fight the war, all or nothing? |
A surrogate war |
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The Invasion of Sicily was led by whom? |
Patton and Montgomery |
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What is the imaginary race between Montgomery and Patton called? |
The Race to Messina |
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Who wins the Race to Messina? |
Patton |
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Who was the general that slapped a soldier in the face? |
Patton |
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Who launched 87 amphibious landings? |
MacArthur |
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What is the military strategy that promoted taking down little islands in the hope of taking down the big one? |
Island hopping |
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What are suicide planes? |
Kamikaze |
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The Japanese navy is completely wiped out during which battle? |
The Battle at Leyte Gulf |
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What is the volcanic island in the middle of nowhere? |
Iwo Jima |
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In the famous picture of the Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima, what mountain are they standing on? |
Mt. Suribachi |
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What is the project that works with the Atomic Bomb? |
The Manhattan Project |
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Who is the head of the Manhattan Project and also a famous nucleoscientist? |
Robert Oppenheimer |
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Where did they test the first atomic bomb? |
Alamagorda |
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Where was the lab of the atomic bomb located? |
Los Alamos, New Mexico |
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What is the plane that carries all the atomic bombs? |
The Enola Gay |
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Who is the pilot that bombs Japan? |
Paul Tibbets |
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When was the bombing of Hiroshima? |
August 6, 1945 |
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When was the bombing of Nagasaki? |
August 9, 1945 |
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On what battleship do the Japanese finally surrender? |
The Battleship Missouri |
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Who says "I am death, destroyer of worlds" and where is the quote from? |
Robert Oppenheimer and its from the Vedas |
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After the Japanese surrender, who writes the Japanese constitution? |
Douglas MacArthur |
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Who signs the armistice that puts Italy out of the war? |
Pietro Badolio |
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Who is in charge of the Italian Campaign? |
Mark Clark |
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What is the German line of defense called? |
The Gustav Line |
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What Benedictine Monastery is at the center of the Gustav Line? |
Monte Cassino |
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When was the Battle of Anzio? |
January 1944 |
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What group of soldiers were the most decorated soldiers in all WWII? |
The Japanese American |
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When was D-Day? |
June 6, 1944 |
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What was the D-Day operation called? |
Operation Overlord/Normandy Invasion |
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Who leads the "paper army" |
Patton |
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What is the fake army called in Operation Overlord? |
The Paper Army |
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What was the plan to invade the Soviet Union? |
Operation Barbarossa |
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What strategy did the Russians use when retreating away from the Germans? |
The Scorched-Earth Strategy |
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Which city refused to fall even though Hitler was starving the city? |
Leningrad |
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What Soviet general counterattacked when Hitler was on the outskirts of Moscow? |
General Georgi Zhukov |
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Who was the commander of the Allied Forces in the Pacific? |
Douglas MacArthur |
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"The island of death" |
Guadalcanal |
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"lighting strike" |
Blietzkreig |
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A system of fortifications along France's border with Germany |
Maginot Line |
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What is the "sitting war" |
Sitzkreig |
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In April 1940, which two nations have a surprise German invasion and fall? |
Denmark and Norway |
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When does Germany take Paris? |
June 1940 |
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Who organized the Free French Military Forces? |
Charles de Gaulle |
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What kind of battle was the Battle of Britain? |
An air battle |
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What was the RAF? |
The Royal Air Force |
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What operation is the Battle of Britain known as? |
Operation Adler Tag |
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What is Hitler bombing London and major cities called? |
The Blitz |
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The systematic mass slaughter of Jews and other groups judged inferior by the Nazis |
The Holocaust |
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What laws deprived Jews of their rights to German citizenship and forbade marriages between jews and non jews? |
The Nuremberg Laws |
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What was the day called when the Nazis attacked all Jewish owned stores leaving broken glass all over the streets? |
Night of Broken Glass |
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What are segregated jewish areas? |
The ghettos |
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What is the systematic killing of an entire people? |
A genocide |
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About how many died during the Holocaust and how many survived? |
6 million died and less than 4 million survived |
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Who started the Gestapo? |
Hermann Goring |
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Who beat executioner at the trial of Nuremburg by taking cyanide? |
Hermann Goring |
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Who was the German minister of propaganda? |
Josef Goebbels |
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Who is Hitler's architect? |
Albert Speer |
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Where were convicted Nazi war criminals imprisoned? |
Spandau Prison |
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Site of trials of Nazi War Criminals? |
Nuremburg |
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Who was Hitler's mistress? |
Eva Braun |
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What is the Hitler Youth? |
Jugend |
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What was the poison gas used to exterminate the Jews called? |
Zyklon-B |
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Who was the American Commander of D-Day? |
Omar Bradley |
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Who was the British commander of D-Day? |
Montgomery |
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What was the port city taken by the Allies? |
Cherbourg |
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D-Day was which type of war? |
"Hedgerow war" |
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When was the Battle of the Bulge? |
December 1944 |
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What kind of battle was the Battle of the Bulge? |
A tank battle |
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Where was the place that 101st Airborne were trapped there by Germans? |
Bastogne |
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Who is asked by Germans to surrender? |
General A.C. McAuliffe |
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What was General A.C. McAuliffe's response when asked to surrender by the Germans? |
"NUTS" |
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The Russian Invasion of Germany was led by who? |
Zhukov |
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When was the bombing of Dresden? |
February 1945 |
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How many bombs do the British drop on Dresden |
4,000 |
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What was the title of Kurt Vonnegut's book about the Bombing of Dresden? |
Slaughterhouse Five |
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During the three pronged attack, where do the allies and Russia meet? |
The Elbe River |
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Who was the rocket scientist who developed the American program for missiles and space? |
von Braun |
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Who was known as the "Desert Fox"? |
Erwin Rommel |
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Who was German Tank General in Africa? |
Erwin Rommel |
