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28 Cards in this Set
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British prime minister; adhered to policy of appeasement that allowed German territorial annexations in 1938
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Neville Chamberlain
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German foreign minister; signed German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
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Joachim von Ribbentrop
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Nickname for the british tactic of dropping anti-nazi pamphlets from airplanes in Germany
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"Confetti War"
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The Russians lost 200,000 soldiers trying to get Karelia from this country in late 39's and early 40.
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Finland
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A U.S. Army general best known for leading the famous “Raid” in 1942, in which B-25 bombers were launched from an aircraft carrier to bomb Japan and then crash-landed in China.
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James Doolittle
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A U.S. Army general who held the position of supreme Allied commander in Europe, best known for planning project Overlord
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Emperor of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989.
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Hirohito
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The Japanese navy admiral who planned the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and the attack on Midway in 1942.
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Yamamoto Isoroku
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The commander of the U.S. Air Force’s 21st Bomber Command. who developed plan of dropping incidenary bombs on japans cities
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Curtis LeMay
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Fascist prime minister who came to power in 1922 and ruled Italy as an absolute dictator.
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Benito Mussolini
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A field marshal in command of the German Sixth Army at the Battle of Stalingrad. Surrendered what was left of the German forces in February 1943
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Friedrich Paulus
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“Desert Fox” , A field marshal in the German army’s Afrika Korps who specialized in tank warfare.
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Erwin Rommel
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best known for making the controversial decision to use two atomic bombs against Japan in August 1945.
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Truman
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British air forces fight off the luftwaffe in an extended campaign.
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Battle of Britain
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A battle from May 4–8, 1942, in which U.S. naval forces successfully protected the Allied base at Port Moresby, New Guinea,
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Battle of the Coral Sea
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An October and November 1942 battle that was the climax of the North African campaign.
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Battle of El-Alamein
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A campaign from August 1942 to February 1943 in which U.S. Marines fought brutal battles to expel Japanese forces from the Solomon Islands
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Battle of Guadalcanal
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A battle in February and March 1945 in which U.S. forces took this town off japans coast. Famous photo taken.
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Battle of Iwo Jima.
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A battle from June 3–6, 1942, in which U.S. naval forces severely disabled the Japanese fleet at here in the Pacific.
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Battle of Midway
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The last large-scale battle in the Pacific theater, in which U.S. forces invaded the Japanese home island. The battle was very bloody, killing at least 100,000 Japanese soldiers and 80,000 to 100,000 Japanese civilians.
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Battle of Okinawa
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The brutal Nazi secret police force, headed by the infamous Hermann Göring.
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Gestapo
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Two cities where the atom bomb was dropped.
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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agreement among Germany, Britain, Italy, and France that allowed Germany to annex the region of western Czechoslovakia called the Sudetenland.
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Munich Agreement
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The code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, which Hitler predicted would take only six months but ended up miring the German armies for more than two years.
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Operation Barbarossa
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The code name for the Allied invasion of France in 1944
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operation Overlord
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the elite German paramilitary unit.
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S.S
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V-E Day
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May 8, 1945, the day on which the Allied forces declared victory in Europe.
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D-Day
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June 6, 1944
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