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52 Cards in this Set
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Who gave hitler an appeasement hoping it would be enough to stop Hitler? |
Neville Chamberlain |
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What was the first place Hitler took? |
Austria, after signing an agreement with them |
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Who was chosen as supreme commander for operation overlord? |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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Who was Hitlers Mistress? |
Eva Braun |
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Where did Churchill, FDR and Stalin meet to divide Germany into 4 parts? |
The Yalta Conference |
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What Islands did we first win during the pearl Harbor Island Hopping? |
Iwo Jima & Okinawa |
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Where did the soviets & allies meet that meant there was no Nazi Germany army to fight? |
Torgau at the Elbe River |
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What is an Embargo? |
An official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a country |
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Why did FDR put an embargo on oil on Japan? |
Japan was taking areas in the pacific |
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When/Why did England & France (ALLIES) declare war on Germany? |
Germany took Poland in 4 weeks |
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When did WW2 Officially Begin? |
September 1, 1939 |
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When did WW2 Officially End? |
May 8, 1945 (VE-Day) |
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Who was the Chinese Leader? |
Chiang Kai-Shek |
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What did Hitler Call himself? |
Fuhrer or Chancellor |
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Germany became a what? |
A Totalitarian State (Government Has Full Control) |
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Auschwitz |
A network of concentration camps and extermination camps; The worst of all camps |
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Total Deaths in WW2 |
50,000,000 People |
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Heinrich Himmler |
Leader of the S.S & overseer of the concentration camps. |
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What is the name of Hitlers Auto- Biography? |
Mein Kampf (My Struggle) |
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Gestapo |
Hitlers Secret Police |
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Franklin Delanor Roosevelt (FDR) |
Served 3 terms as president; He died of a stroke on April 10, 1945 |
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June 6, 1944 |
Was called D-Day when allies stormed the coast of Norman D France; We Freed France from German control |
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Rationing |
When the government will only let people buy a certain amount of edible good |
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England (Britain) & France |
In 1939, in response to Hitler's invasion of Poland, , both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany. |
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December 7, 1941 |
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor Hawaii |
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Blitzkrieg |
A German term for “lightning war,” it's a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. |
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Joseph Stalin |
Took over the USSR after Vladamir Lenin died/ |
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Genecide |
To wipe out an entire Race |
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Nazi Death Camps |
Hitler acted out his hatred of the jews by killing 6,000,000 |
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Albert Einstein |
Escaped Nazi Germany; Told FDR the possibilities of an atomic bomb and its point of destruction in Germany and that the US should start creating one themselves |
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How did Hitler Die? |
He committed suicide in a Bunker in Berlin |
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What places did Hitler/ Germany take? |
Austria, Poland, Norway, Denmar, Belgium and the Netherlands |
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How did Germany fail by air? |
England used a radar to defeat the germans in the Battle of Britain |
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What was Hitlers first loss and The best air battle fought? |
The Battle of Britain |
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Hermann Göring |
Leader of the German Air Force in WW2 |
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Nazi Soviet Pact |
A treaty made by Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939 that opened the way for both nations to invade Poland. |
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Sudetenland |
Area in Czechoslavakia that contained a lot of germans |
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V-Day |
May 8, 1945 |
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VJ- Day |
Victory against Japan August 14, |
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Atomic Bombs |
B29 captain Anola Gay |
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Who took over after FDR's death? |
Harry Truman |
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Lend-Lease Act |
We gave war supplies to the allies fighting against the axis powers |
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Who was Japans Leader? |
Hirohito |
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What did Hitler claim to need more of for Germany? |
Hiroshima (Living Space) |
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Hitlers last major offensive |
In Belgium Germans pushed a 60 mile bulge in allies blinds but could not break through |
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What is Nazi short for? |
National Socialism |
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Douglas MacArthur & Chester Nimitz |
Americans who helped the allies in the pacific (As in Island Hopping) |
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In Eurpope when did Fascism appear most? |
When bitterness was the deepest |
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What is fascism |
an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization |
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How did Benito Mussolini die? |
Rome was liberated by Allied forces, who marched on to take control of Italy. He was killed after trying to fleet to Switzerland |
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Where did Dictators come to power? |
Europe & Asia |
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What was Benito's nikname? |
El Duce |
