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46 Cards in this Set
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Third Reich
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Hitler's government
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more land and more power
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All 3 Axis powers wanted this same thing
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Austria
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Hitler's first aggressive move
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Luftwaffe
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German airforce
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Winston Churchill
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British Prime Minister during WWII
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Pact of Steel
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When Japan joined Germany and Italy in mutual feelings of aggression, they became known as this
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The Axis powers
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Germany, Italy, Japan
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When Hitler invaded Poland
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Britain and France declared war on Germany
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France
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the first Allied nation to surrender to Hitler
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Battle of Britain
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first air war in history and the first German defeat in WWII
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Edwin Rommel
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German tank commander in North Africa
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Desert Fox
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Rommel's nickname
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collaborators
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leaders of a country who betrayed their country and gave aid to Hitler
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Lend-Lease Bill
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a bill passed during WWII that allowed the U.S. to loan supplies to countries fighting Hitler. Payment would be worked out after the war.
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kamikaze
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Japanese suicide planes, zero planes with TNT in the nose
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3 strong dictators that arose after WWII
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Hitler- Germany, Mussolini- Italy, Tojo- Japan
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Eisenhower
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the General in charge of a surprise landing in North Africa
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Eisenhower's surprise landings in North Africa were in what 3 places
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Casablanca, Oran, Algiers
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Rome, Italy
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first Axis capital to surrender
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Operation Overload
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code name for the preparation for the invasion from Britain onto the shores of France
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D-day
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the day of the invasion onto Hitler's "fortress Europe"
June 6, 1944 |
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Eisenhower
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in charge of planning D-day
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sonar
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finally neutralized the u-boat threat
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Battle of the Bulge
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last German drive of the war
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Island hopping
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The U.S. plan to hop, skip, and jump from one island to another working their way to Japan.
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May 8, 1945
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V-E day (victory in Europe)
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May 7, 1945
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Germany surrendered
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Battle of the Coral Sea
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The Japanese had to give up their plan to take Australia and New Guinea
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Battle of Midway
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The Japanese fleet was mauled so badly that they had to retreat. This put the U.S. navy on the offensive.
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Douglas MacArthur
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led U.S. troops in the Pacific
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Battle of Leyte Gulf
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was fought to retake the Philippines
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Okinawa
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by taking this island the Americans moved to within 350 miles of the Japanese mainland
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Harry Truman
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became President after Roosevelt died
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Potsdam Declaration
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a document that warned Japan of immediate destruction if she did not surrender
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England, France, Russia, U.S.
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4 of the Allied Nations in WWII
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name 4 things the occupied people of Europe did to show they resisted the Germans
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1. wrecked trucks and blew up ammunition dumps 2. put glass in oil and sugar in gasoline 3. made bullets and shells that wouldn't explode 4. killed Nazi officers and soldiers
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September 1, 1939
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Hitler invaded Poland
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September 3, 1939
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Britain and France declared war on Germany
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June 22, 1940
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France surrendered to Germany
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December 7, 1941
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Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor
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December 8, 1941
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The U.S. declared war on Japan
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December 11, 1941
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Germany and Italy declared war on the U.S.
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August 6, 1945
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atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
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August 9, 1945
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atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
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September 2, 1945
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Japan surrendered
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What kind of revenge did Hitler order because of Reinhard Heydrich's death
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In the village of Lidice, every man (190) was machine gunned down. THe 195 women were sent to concentration camps. The 82 children were scattered abroad and sent to re-educational camps. Every trace of Lidice was destroyed, and the ground was plowed flat.
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