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Spain had been dominated for centuries by a coalition of... |
The army, landowners, and the Catholic Church |
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Opposition in Spain from |
Peasants, workers and Catalonia/basque regions |
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1931 |
King of Spain abdicates his throne |
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First sign of trouble in Spain |
Trouble came from far left- unions and communist part wanted to see greater changes |
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1933 sp |
Right wing government elected |
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Right wing government resulted in |
A series of general strikes that are put down by the army |
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The popular front (coalition of left wing)... |
Takes over the government |
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Nationalist form from |
Coalition of church, army and 'Falange-Spain's fascists party) |
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1936 spain |
Civil war begins in Spanish Marocco |
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Civil war breaks Spain into |
Nationalists and republicans (popular front) |
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Civil war lasts for |
3 years - nationalists win and Franco is dictator until 1975 |
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Foreign involvement in Spanish civil war |
Soviet Union supports republicans, Germany and Italy support nationalist and Britain and France unofficially support republicans |
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Who was the only independent Asian country with its own empire in the 1920's |
Japan |
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How did Japan pull out of the depression |
They used Keynesian economics |
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Japanese military begins expansion with conquest of |
Manchuria |
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By 1937 the Japanese government has almost lost control of the country to |
The military |
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July 1940 Japan forms |
Greater east Asia co-prosperity sphere |
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Hitler gains control of Germany in |
1933 |
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What idea does hitler introduce in his early rule |
Lebensraum - living space for the German people; Germany should be reunited |
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March 1936 hitler |
Remilitarizes the Rhineland |
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1936 Germany |
Anschluss of Austria |
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1938 Germany takes over |
Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia |
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Summer 1939 |
Nazi -soviet non-aggression pact |
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Sept 1, 1939 |
Hitler invades Poland |
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Sept 3, 1939 |
Britain and France declare war |
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What follows the declaration of war |
The phony war because there is no fighting |
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Blitzkrieg tactics are |
Synchronized attacks by air, land and sea (lightning war) |
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April 1940 |
Germany attacks Denmark and Norway |
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May 1940 |
Germany attacks Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France |
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France evacuated from |
Dunkirk beach |
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Germany controls northern part of France, the southern part becomes known as |
Vichy France because they collaborate with Germany |
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What is operation sea lion |
Germany's goal to conquer Britain |
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1940 German bomber squadron gets |
Lost and bombs London so the British respond by bombing Berlin |
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1939-40 Soviet Union becomes |
Aggressive in Eastern Europe and begins conquering territory |
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Sept 1939 Soviet Union conquers |
Their half of Poland |
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Spring 1940 Soviet Union conquers |
Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia |
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Nov 1939 Soviet Union enter |
Winter war with Finland |
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Finland surrenders |
Spring 1940 |
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What is operation Barbarossa (June 22, 1941) |
Germany invaded soviet controlled territory |
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What policy does Stalin institute when hurler starts invading |
Scorched earth policy which means everything is burned so the Germans cannot steal any resources |
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Why was control of North Africa important |
Because of the Suez Canal (vital shipping route) and oil |
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The fight for North Africa is between |
Britain and Germany |
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Initially in North Africa Britain does not |
Fair well against the German tank divisions |
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Major battle; battle of El Alamein (October. 1942) |
Montgomery is able to defeat Rommel; maintain control of Suez Canal and oil and take out large division of tanks |
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The battle of the Atlantic created struggles with |
Getting supplies to Britain |
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German u-boats hunted in |
Wolf packs |
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Supply ships traveled in |
Convoys |
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1942 in the Atlantic Germany was |
Sinking ships faster than they could be built |
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1943 what was developed to help the war at sea |
Radar that could be used on ships, larger convoys were used and the development of sonar |
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Hitlers einsatzgruppen were |
A special force of the ss meant to deal with undesirables in occupied countries |
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What law did Germany force conquered territories to take on |
The Nuremberg laws |
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What preparations for the final solutions has been made by 1941 |
Gas chambers and crematoria were built |
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July 24, 1944 the first eye witness account of a death camp occurs when |
The soviets liberate majdanek |
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What did countries do to rebel against nazi control |
Smuggled information to Britain, sabotage German trains and equipment, and they attacked/murdered high ranking nazi officials |
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What country refused to give up its Jews |
Denmark |
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By early 1943 in North Africa Germany had been |
Removed |
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1943 Stalin pushed for |
A second front in France |
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Churchill referred to Italy as |
Soft underbelly of Europe |
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July 9, 1943 allies land in |
Sicily - Germany fights to secure the island |
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June 4, 1944- May 2, 1945 the allies |
Capture Rome |
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Mussolini and his mistress are |
Caught and displayed in the streets of Milan |
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What was operation overlord (June 6, 1944) |
The allies plan to recapture France |
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Paris is reclaimed on |
August 25, 1944 |
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Operation market garden |
Allied troops parachute behind German lines in holland and are defeated |
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Battle of the bulge |
Germans attack in the Ardennes forest (dec 1944) |
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Allies launch large scale ______ of german cities |
Bombing |
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April 1945 the U.S. And soviet forces |
Meet south of Berlin and drive north to conquer the city |
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April 30 |
Hitler commits suicide |
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May 2, 1945 |
Berlin taken |
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May 7, 1945 |
Germany surrenders |
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May 8, 1945 |
Victory in Europe |
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Dec 7, 1941 |
Japan bombs pearl harbour |
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Dec 8, 1941 Roosevelt gives |
Day of infamy speech |
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Doolittle raid |
Bomber missions over Japan |
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Battle of the coral sea(may 1942) |
Aerial battle supported by air craft carriers |
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Battle of midway ( June 1942) |
U.s defeat-Japan sinks four of their aircraft carriers |
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Battle of Leyte gulf (oct 1944) |
U.s sinks half of Japanese fleet - Japan begins kamikaze tactics |
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Capture of Iwo Jima (feb 1945) |
Two key islands close to Japan and us begins large scale bombings of Japanese cities |
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Aug 6, 1945 |
U.s dropped little boy on Hiroshima |
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Aug 9, 1945 |
Us dropped fat man on Nagasaki |
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Aug 14, 1945 |
Victory in Japan - Japan surrenders |
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Comfort women |
Women abducted by the Japanese military to be sex slaves for the soldiers |
