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63 Cards in this Set
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What was the Nazi ideology?
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Discrepancy between those who fit Nazi ideals and those who did not.
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Who were considered "genetically inferior" and were probably sent to concentration camps?
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Roman Catholics, Jehovah's witnesses, Gypsies, mixed race children, criminals, prostitutes, alcholocs, gays,JEWS
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What is the luftwaffe?
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the german airforce
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What is kristallnacht?
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a program during which jews were killed and their property was destroye?
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What is Blitzkrieg? (ANSWER)
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Answer is A + B
TATIC violent military offensive aerial bombardment |
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What happened as soon as Hitler came to power after Germany defied the Treaty of Versailles?
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they began organizing an army then they organzied the airforce
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What did Germany do to the Rhineland?
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They re-militarilized it.
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What was the anschluss the Germany created?
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it was a union between Germany and Austria.
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What did the Germans rename Czechoslovakia as?
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Sudetenland
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What is appeasement? (ANSWER)
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to bring a state of peace and to avoid war
answer=3rd reich |
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Axis powers
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Germany
Italy Japan |
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allied powers
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France, Great Britian, United States, Soviet Union, China
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What did the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact do?
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It stalled war between Germany and the soviets
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What did the League of Nations do during WW two?
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they were weak, didnt have any power NOTHING
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What was the Maginot Line?
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It was a series of fortifications to try to stop German advancement
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what did britain do in 1940 when germany overtook denmark and norway?
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They tried to stop them but failed and later germany invaded france
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Where was the Vichy government?
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Normandy
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Who was marshal philippe pettain?
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he was the ruler or Vichy France
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Who was Charles de Gaulle and what did he do?
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He escaped to Great Britain and declared himself leader of the Free French government in exile
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Who and why said "we shall never surrender"
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Winston Churchill because he wanted to motivate citizens
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What did germany do to london every night?
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they bombed london every night
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What was the Battle Of Britain?
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Despite German bombings, the britains never surrenedered and by November the British had won the battle
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Who was emperor Hirohito? what did he want
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he was the emperor of japan and wanted to expand japanese territory in Asia
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What did emperor Hirohito do to Manchuria?
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he invaded manchuria for natural resources
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waht country did emperor hirohito invade in 1937?
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china
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what was the Rape of Nanking?
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a period of slaughter and war crimes against the chinese
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Who was Mao Zedong?
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he was a communist leader
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Who said the 2nd quote?
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FDR
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What did Harry Truman do?
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declared the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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What was the Operation Barbarosa?
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Germany invaded the USSR and wanted to crush the USSR in six weeks before the Russian winter set in
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Pearl Harbor
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suprise attack against the Us naval base at pearl harbor in hawaii by the japanese navy on the morning of sunday december 7, 1941
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What was a result of the attack of Pearl Harbor?
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The Us immediately declared war on japan
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after the rape of nanking what did FDR do?
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he condemned japan's actions in asia and supplied china with supplies
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why did FDR see japan as a threat to the US in the phillipenes?
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because japan was invading vietnam, laos and cambodia
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embargo (what the us did)
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the us enacted an embargo against japan and cut off their oil supply through naval blockades
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embargo (DEF)
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prohibiting movement of merhcant ships into or out of its ports
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How did hitler come to power?
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C
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picture
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eiwoshima
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D-Day: Who led the Anglo-american forces?
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General DWIGHT EISENHOWER
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what was the plan/reason for the dday invasion?
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to take back france from german control
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where did the dday invastion occur?
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Normandy in northern france
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what happened after the dday invasion at the end of the year?
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allies had pushed germany out of france
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What happened at the Battle of Midway?
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the us fleet inflicted heavy losses on the japanese which forced them to retreat BACK UPTHE PACIFIC
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cold war question
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all of the above
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What was Iwo Jima and Okinawa?and what happened to them
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they were tiny islands near the mainlands and allies got control of them
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How was the us affected by the ar?
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total war, rationing and glorious war
PROTESTS |
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national resources (letter)
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A
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what were japanese internment camps?
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forcible internmnt of 120,000 people with japanese ancestry.. many were american citizens, half were children.
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What was removing people to the camps like?
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no charges were filed against any one, families were given tags, you could only bring what you could carry.
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what happened with your property if you had to go to an internment camp?
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you were forced to sell your property within 48 hours which causes many dollars lost for families
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what was life liek in the camps?
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forced labor, no acces to medical care, fenced in areas, barracks
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What was the end of the war like for germany?
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they were running out of oil,supplies and soldiers.
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at the end of the war, what did allies do to germans
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they pushed them back into germany and the germans surrenedered in 1945
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Who were the representatives at the Postdam Conference?
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Winston Churchill, (later Clement Attlee) President Truman, Joeseph Stalin
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who wasnt invited to the postdam conference
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france
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what was outlined at the postdam conference
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consquences for germany and demanded japan to surrender
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postdam conference ( letters)
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A and B
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what were 4 reasons why president truman used atomic bombs
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1. end war quickly and not cost american lives
2. get back at japan (pearl harbor) 3. test out the atomic weapons from the manhattan project 4. show how powerful the us war |
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what was the first attack
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Hiroshima
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attack of hiroshima (bombs name? deaths?)
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Little Boy
140,000 |
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What was the second attack?
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attack on Nagasak
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attack on Nagask (bomb? deaths?)
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Fat Man
70,000 |
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who was Clement Attlee
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He later was a representative at the postdam conference
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