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37 Cards in this Set
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Five Aspects of the Treaty of Versailles that Germany felt were unfair
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1) War Reparations
2) Accept full responsibility 3) Could not maintain an army 4) Give back overseas colonies 5) Return Alsace-Lorraine to France |
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Fascism was found in ____
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Italy
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Fascist leader was ____
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Benito Mussolini
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Nazism was found in ___
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Germany
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Nazi Leader was ___
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Adolf Hitler
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Communism was found in ___
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Soviet Union
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Communist Leader
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Joseph Stalin
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Two presidents durning WWII
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FDR
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Democracy was found in
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United States
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Three countries that made up the Axis Powers
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1) Italy
2) Germany 3) Japan |
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Appeasement
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Policy of giving in to an enemy with the hopes of ending or preventing war
Hitler was appeased by the return of the Sudeteland |
How was Hitler appeased?
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Non-Aggression Pact
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Two Countries who agree not to be hostile towards each other
Pact was between Germany and Soviet Union Germany broke the pact |
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Four Freedoms
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1) Freedom of Speech
2) Freedom of Worship 3) Freedom from Want 4) freedom from fear |
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Lend-Lease Act
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Law passed by congress that allowed U.S. to give money and weapons to allied countries
this moved the U.S. closer to war |
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Pearl Harbor
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Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941
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Office of War Mobilization
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Promoted propaganda
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Office of Price Administration
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Rationed certain supplies
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Rosie the Riveter
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Cultural icon representing American women
She encouraged women to join war efforts |
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Island Hopping
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U.S. strategy adopted in the Pacific to reclaim lost islands to the Japanese
the U.S. faught Japan in the Pacific |
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Two Battled faught in the Pacific
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Iwo Jima
and Okinawa |
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D-Day A.K.A. Operation Overlord
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Took place on the beaches of Normandy, France
on June 6, 1944 |
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Double V Campaign
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Ended racism at home and Nazism abroad
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Tuskegee Airmen
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First African-American military aviators
Trained in Tuskegee, Alabama |
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Native Americans in the War
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Sent and relayed messages in their native tongue
They were called Code Talkers |
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Japanese Internment Camps
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Concentration-Type prisons where Japanese-Americans were held
they were used because of a fear that Japanese-Americans might be spies |
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Korematsu V. United States
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Korematsu was a Japanese-American who sued the U.S. for violating his civil liberties
It was decided that it was more important to protect the country as a whole than his civil liberties |
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Battle of the Atlantic
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German strategy was a blockade around Great Britain (hoping to starve them)
Convoys were used to escort merchant vessels so that they could reach their destination in England |
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Battle of Stalingrad
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Between Germany and Soviet Union
Germans weren't prepared for the cold weather in the Soviet Union which caused them to lose the war Soviet Union won |
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North African Campaign AKA Operation Torch
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Allied powers were under command of Dwight D. Eisenhower
Axis powers were under the command of Erwin rommel AKA The Desert Fox |
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The Big Three
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1) Franklin Roosevelt - United States
2) Joseph Stalin - Soviet Union 3) Winston Churchill - Great Britain |
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Manhattan Project
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first atomic bomb - Little Boy
dropped on Hiroshima |
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Second Atomic Bomb
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Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki
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Anti-Semitism
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Hatred and discrimination toward Jewish people
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Genocide
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Eradication of an entire ethnicity of people
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Final Solution
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Hitler's plan to rid the world of Jewish
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Auschwitz
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largest concentration camp
located in Poland 1.1 Million people died |
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Numberg Trail
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Prosecution of prominent Nazi leaders in Hitler's inner circle
Three crimes 1) crimes against humanity 2) war crimes 3) crimes against peace 12 of the Nazi leaders were executed by hanging |
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