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35 Cards in this Set
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Appeasement |
Giving in to the demands of an aggressor |
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Pacifism |
Opposition to all war |
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Neutrality Acts |
Forbade the sale of arms to any nation at war. Outlawed loans to warring nations and prohibited Americans from traveling on ships of warring powers |
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Axis Powers |
The Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis. Germany, Italy, and Japan. |
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Descride the early acts of Japan. |
Japan seized the Chinese province of Manchuria |
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Descride the early acts of Germany |
He built up the German military in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles |
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Describe the early acts of Italy |
Italy invaded Ethiopia |
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Francisco Franco |
Led a revolt that touched off a bloody civil war |
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Explain how other countries got involved in the Spanish Civil War |
Hitler and Mussolini sent arms to help Franco. The S.U. sent arms to fight against fascism |
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Anschluss |
Union of Austria and Germany |
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How did Hitler justify taking over Austria and the Sudetenland |
He wanted access to the natural resources of Eastern Europe, which would help boost production of military equiment |
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Nazi-soviet Pact |
Bound Hitler and Stalin to peaceful relations. The two agreed not to fight if the other went to war and to divide up Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe |
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Blitzkrieg |
Lightning war |
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Luftwaffe |
German air force |
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Vichy |
Germany occupied northern France and they set up a puppet state |
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How did the Axis powers gained control of most of Europe in 1941 |
Even after the Axis triumph, however, Greek and Yugoslav guerrillas plagued the occupying forces |
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Why did Hitler nullify the Nazi-Soviet Pact by invading the Soviet Union |
Hitler wanted more land |
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Lend-Lease Act |
It allowed the United States to sell or lend war materials |
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Atlantic Charter |
Which set goals for the war and for the post war world |
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Hodeki Tojo |
Became Prime Minister in 1951 for Japan |
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Why did Janpanese leaders view the United States as an enemy |
The United States banned the sale of war materials to Japan |
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Holocaust |
campaign of genocide |
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Auschimwitz |
The largest Nazi death camp, destroyed one of the gas chambers |
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Internment |
Confinement during wartime, of citizens of Japanese descent |
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Aircraft Carriers |
Ships that transport aircraft and accommodate the take-off and landing of airplanes |
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"The Big Three" |
FDR, Churchill, and Stalin |
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General Bernard Montgomery |
Led British Forces |
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General Dwight Eisenhower |
American took command of a joint British and American force |
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D-day |
The invasion of France |
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V-E Day |
Victory in Europe |
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Bataan Death March |
Resulted on't the death of POW |
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Douglas MacArthur |
American General trying to get closer to Japan with the strategy of island hopping |
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Kamikaze |
Japanese pilots were undertaking suicide missions, crashing their explosive-laden airplanes into American warships |
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Manhattan Project |
Successfully tested the first atomic bomb at Alamogordo, New Mexico |
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Security Council |
Had more power then the United Nations |
