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23 Cards in this Set
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Front (Term) Battle of Midway |
Summer of 1942 Japan plans ambush but U.S. decodes message and sets up ambush instead. U.S. WINS |
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U.S. generals |
Douglas MacArthur Admiral Chester Nimitz Dwight Eisenhower George Patton |
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Island hopping |
Allied strategy in Pacific of invading specific islands and using them as bases to advance closer to Japan |
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KamiKaze |
Japanese suicide pilot |
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Nisei |
Japanese American born in the U.S. |
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Battle of Stalingrad |
August 1942 Germans surrender in January 1943 Between Soviet Union and Germany Soviet Wins |
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Battle of Alamein |
November 4, 1942 Britain stops Germany Egypt Britain Won |
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When was Mussolini forced out of power? |
1943 |
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D - Day |
June 6, 1944 Normandy, France Led by George Patton Operation Overlord Sept. 1944 France is liberated from Germany |
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When does Hitler kill himself?
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April 1945 |
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When do Nazis surrender? |
May 7, 1945 Dwight Eisenhower |
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Pacific War |
1944-1945 Douglas MacArthur Spring 1945 Marines have control of Iwo Jima and Okinawa U.S. WON |
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When and where was the Atomic Bomb successful? |
June 16, 1945 New Mexico |
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When and where did America drop the atomic bomb? |
August 6, 1945 Hiroshima
August 9, 1945 Nagasaki |
2 times and two places |
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When did Japan surrender? Who led the occupation? |
Sept. 2, 1945 General MacArthur |
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Name 5 things about Total War |
1. Mobilizing the Economy 2. Rationing and Victory Gardens 3. Women in the Work Force 4. Propaganda 5. Military Tactics |
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When did Japan surrender? Who led the occupation? |
Sept. 2, 1945 General MacArthur |
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Name 5 things about Total War |
1. Mobilizing the Economy 2. Rationing and Victory Gardens 3. Women in the Work Force 4. Propaganda 5. Military Tactics |
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When was, who was in, and what was the Yalta Conference? |
Feb. 1945 Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin Made decisions about Postwar, Germany, and Poland Divided Germany into 4 occupation zones ( U.S., USSR, France, and Poland ) Couldn't agree on Poland |
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When was, who was in, and what was the Postdam Conference? |
July 1945 Berlin, Germany Attlee, Truman, and Stalin 1. Outlawed Nazism 2. Dismantled German military 3. Re organized the Germans economy 4. Instituted a representative group 5. Demanded the unconditional surrender of Japan |
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What was the U.S. Occupation in Japan? |
Sept. 1945 Lasted 5 yrs. Led by General MacArthur Created a new govt. Reconstructed infrastructure |
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What was the Marshall Plan? |
Proposed aid to all European countries who needed it Worked to keep communism from spreading to Western Europe |
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What was The United Nations? |
International peacekeeping organization FDR was the principal architect of the UN |
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