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23 Cards in this Set
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ANSCHLUSS
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annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938
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ANTI-COMINTERN PACT
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Hitler and Japan; offered security against Russia
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ATLANTIC CHARTER
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August 1941; called for peace without territorial expansion or secret agreements; free elections; self-determination for all liberated nations
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CASABLANCA CONFERENCE
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accept nothing less than unconditional surrender of Axis powers
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CHAMBERLAIN
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gullible British Prime Minister; declared that Britain and France would fight if Hitler attacked Poland
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CHURCHILL
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greatest wartime leader; rallied the British with his speeches; confidence; determination; known for his "iron curtain" speech; led the British during WWII; agreed Hitler should be conquered; was thrown out by his own people
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D-DAY
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June 6, 1944; Americans &British forces under Eisenhower landed on the beaches of Normandy; this was history's greatest naval invasion
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BATTLE OF STALINGRAD
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turning point for Germany in the war
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FRANCO
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Spanish General; organized the revolt in Morocco, which led to the Spanish Civil War; leader of the Nationalists; supported by Hitler &Mussolini; won the Civil War after 3 years of fighting
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LEBENSAUM
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room to move; phrase used by Hitler to justify invasion of other countries.
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LEND-LEASE PROGRAM
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1941; US lent money &resources to the European states to help reconstruction
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MAGINOT LINE
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line of defense built by France to protect against German invasion; stretched ftom Belgium to Switzerland
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MUNICH CONFERENCE
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1938; Chamberlain, France and other countries (not Russia); they agreed that Sudentenland should be ceded to Germany; Chamberlain secured peace with Germany
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PACIFICISM
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anabaptists laid great stress on this; they would not run for office or serve in the armed forces; not being involved in many wars
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POTSDAM CONFERENCE
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brought forward many differences over east Europe; postwar conference in July of 1945; Stalin would not allow any type of freely elected government in east European countries; Roosevelt had died and was succeeded by Harry Truman, who demanded free elections.
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ROME-BERLIN ACT
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1936; close cooperation between Italy &Germany; soon Japan joined; resulted from Hitler; who had supported Ethiopia and Italy, he overcame Mussolini's lingering doubts about the Nazis
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ROMMEL
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"Desert Fox" May 1942; German &Italian armies were led by him; attacked British occupied Egypt &the Suez Canal for the second time; were defeated at the Battle of El Alamein; was moved to France to oversee the defenses before D-Day; tried to assassinate Hitler
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RUSSO-GERMAN NONAGGRESSION PACT
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Hitler &Stalin promised to remain neutral if either country were to become involved in war; August 1939; was supposed to last 10 years, but Hitler invaded Russia in 1941
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STALIN
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Communist statesman; leader of Bolshevik Party; became ruler of USSR after Lenin; assumed full military and political leadership; war on peasantry to bring control of state
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SUDETENLAND
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Hitler wanted German speaking people in West Czech; this would be given to Germany
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TEHERAN CONFERENCE
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1943; Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill; confirmed their defense to crush Hitler
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YALTA CONFERENCE
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Big Three met in February 1945 in southern Russia; it was agreed that Germany would be divided into zones of oocupation; would pay heavy reparations to the soviet Union; reparations would be determined by their economic prosperity; east European governments were to be freely elected but pro-soviet
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SPANISH CIVIL WAR
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authoritarian regime was established in Spain
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