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54 Cards in this Set
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Who was the U.S president during the majority if world war two |
F D R |
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Who was the British prime minister in the early years of world war two |
Neville Chamberlain |
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Who was the German leader who was forced to commit suicide due to trying to overthrow Hitler |
Erwin Rommel |
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Who was the USSR leader in world war two |
Stalin |
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Which president represented the U.S at the Potsdam conference |
Harry Truman |
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Who was the American who allied Europe's forces and planned the D day invasion |
Dwight Eisenhower |
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Which British prime minister helped rally English people to resist Hitler |
Winston Churchill |
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Who was emperor of Japan during world war two |
Hirohito |
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Name three big leaders at the Yalta conference |
Churchill, F D R, Stalin |
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Name the German Chancellor Hitler replaced |
Paul Hindenburg |
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Who was Hitler's second in command |
Herman Goering |
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Who was the leader of the italians |
Benito Mussolini |
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Who was the emperor of Ethiopia |
Hope Selassie |
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Who led the French |
Charles gaulle |
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Who planned the pearl harbor invasion |
Isoroku Yamamoto |
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Which two American generals were in charge of the Pacific campaign |
Namitz and MacArthur |
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Who was the head scientist of the Manhattan project |
Robert oppenheimer |
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Who sent the letter to FDR claiming a nuclear bomb was possible |
Albert Einstein |
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Who helped institute democracy and capitalism in japan |
Douglas MacArthur |
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Which president dropped bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
Harry Truman |
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Who was the leader of the Vichy french government |
Marshall Petain |
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Who appointed Hitler as Chancellor |
Hindenburg |
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Who led the B -25 raid |
Jimmy Doolittle |
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Who was the leader of spain |
Franco |
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Leader of the German ss |
Himmler |
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Leader of German sa |
Ernst |
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Who painted Guernica |
Picasso |
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Word for lighting war |
Blitzkrieg |
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What started world war two |
Germany invaded poland |
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World war two cause are |
Great depression, crashed stock market, Hitler, treaty of Versailles |
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Axis powers were |
Germany Italy and Japan |
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Italy invaded which African nation in 1935 |
Ethiopia |
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A campaign that includes us and great Britain fighting Germany was called |
Operation torch |
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Hitler's form of government was |
Fascism |
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America's attitude about war was |
Isolationist |
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Which battle became the turning point |
Stalingrad |
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The treatment of the Jews is an example of |
Genocide |
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Why was the Japanese invasion of China important |
It led to a us oil embargo |
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What wall was built by the french |
The Maginot line |
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Why was the battle of Britain important |
It was Germany's first big defeat |
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The union between Germany and Austria was the |
Anscluss |
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Germanys last counteroffensive in Belgium was |
The battle of the bulge |
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Fascism |
No freedom of press, speech, military build up |
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What event put Hitler in jail |
The beer hall putsch |
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U.s strategy in the Pacific |
Island hopping |
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Define kamikaze |
Divine wind - they were Japanese suicide pilot's |
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Name of the b-29 that dropped the bombs |
Ebola gay |
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Code that soilders lived by |
Bushido |
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Date of pearl harbor |
12/7/41 |
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Battle fought in 1942 |
Midway, sunk four Japanese carriers |
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36 day battle |
Battle of Iwo jima |
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1935 laws were passed that Discriminated against Jews |
Nuremberg laws |
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Nazi symbols |
Swastika and Phoenix |
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What law gave Hitler unlimited power |
The enabling act |
