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Was a German military strategy that depended on surprise and overwhelming forces. |
Blitzkreg |
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This Japanese city was destroyed by the atomic bomb "Little Boy". |
Hiroshima |
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The submarine commander that planned a US bombing raid on Tokyo by launching B-25b Bombers of an aircraft carrier. |
Doolittle |
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This event broke the "Non-aggression" pact between Germany and Russia. |
Operation Barbarossa |
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In charge of putting together the atomic bomb. |
Robert Oppenheimer |
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"a date which will live in infantry." |
Pearl harbor |
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Location of a large jewish "death factory" or Nazi extermination camp. |
Auschwitz |
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"The Night of Broken Glass." |
Kristallnact
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This series of hearings addressed the attrocities of the Holocaust |
Nuremberg Trails |
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First country to where Hitler ordered his troops, that DID NOT want them there. |
Czechoslovakia |
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This ship was sunk by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, and has a memorial built over it today. |
USS Arizona |
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Used to mass kill jews in the Gas Chambers |
Zyklon B |
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What naval battle changed the course of the Pacific war in favor of the US forces and against the Japanese. |
Midway |
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The crucial lesson that Hitler's advances could be blocked was learned at what Battle? |
Britain |
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Leader of Russia during WWII |
Stalin |
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State where Pearl Harbor was located |
Hawaii |
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Although an ancient symbol of future success, the Nazi party chose it as their emblem and has since been see as a symbol for hate. |
Swastika |
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US program to develop the atomic bomb |
Manhattan Project |
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The repeated bombing of British towns by the German Luftwaffe, and an attempt to bomb Britain into submission |
The Blitz |
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Japanese town that was destroyed by the atomic bomb "Fat Man" |
Nagasaki |
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After WWII, who caused the Japanese emperor to have reduced power. |
The Allies |
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This battle marked the last and final German offensive |
Battle of the Bulge |
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Plane that dropped the atomic bombs on Japan |
Enola Gay |
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Germany's invasion of this country prompted Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany |
Poland |
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The leader of the Nazi party and the Chancellor of Germany during WWII |
Adolf Hitler |
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The first area to where Hitler marched his troops. |
Rhineland |
