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36 Cards in this Set
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Neutrality Acts of 1935/1937 |
laws to avoid policies that drew the US into WWII |
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Isolationism |
staying out of European affairs |
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Appeasement |
practice of giving into aggression in order to avoid war |
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Aggression |
warlike act against a country without a reason |
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Lend-Lease Act |
law during WWII that allowed the US to sell arms and equipment to Great Britain |
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Munich Conference |
1938 meeting of leaders from France, Great Britan, Italy and Germany in which they appeased Hitler and allowed him to take part of Czechoslovakia |
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Rationing |
limitations on the amount of goods someone can buy |
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Josef Stalin |
leader of the Soviet Union during WWII |
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Adolf Hitler |
leader of Nazi Germany |
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FDR
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president of USA during WWII |
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Vladmir Lenin |
leader of communist Russia before Stalin |
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Winston Churchill |
leader of Great Britain |
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Benito Mussolini
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leader of Italy |
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Hirohito |
leader of Japan |
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Dwight Eisenhower |
general in charge of d-day invasion |
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Douglas McArthur |
general in charge of US forces in the Pacific |
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Allied Powers |
USA, Great Britain, France, Soviet Union |
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Axis Powers |
Germany, Italy, Japan |
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Pearl Harbor |
US naval base in Hawaii that was attacked by Japan on December 7, 1941 • cause of US declaring war on Japan |
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Interment Camps |
camps used by the US to house Japanese-American from the West Coast after Pearl Harbor |
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Executive Order 9066 |
presidential order removing 110,000 Japanese-Americans relocation camps • prejudice towards Jap-Am were a threat to US security |
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Dictator |
a person who hold complete control over a country and its people |
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Nazi |
member of the National Socialist German Workers Party |
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Totalitarian |
single party controls government and every aspect of people lives |
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Blitzkrieg |
the swift air attacks launched by Germany in WWII • 1st used in Poland |
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Concentration Camps |
prison camps for civilians who are considered enemies of the state |
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D-Day |
June 6, 1944: opens a new Allied front in Europe |
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Liberty Bonds |
bonds sold by the US Govt. to raise money for the war |
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Operation Overlord |
code name for the invasion of Europe by the Allied forces in June 1944 |
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Island Hopping |
allied strategy of capturing islands held by Japan to regain control of the Pacific |
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Holocaust |
genocide (slaughter) of European Jews by Hitler during WWII |
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Manhattan Project |
code name for the building of an atomic bomb |
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Hiroshima |
8/6/1945: 1st atomic bomb was dropped by US |
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Nagasaki |
8/9/1945: 2nd atomic bomb dropped • 8/19/1945: Japan surrendered |
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Yalta Conference |
conference of the Big 3 Allied powers (Great Britain, Soviet Union, USA) |
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Nuremburg Trials |
nazi war crime trials held in Nuremburg, Germany after WWII that help hold individuals accountable for their crimes |
