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39 Cards in this Set
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Operation Barbarossa
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Code name for German's invasion into the Soviet Union
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Luftwaffe
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The German Airforce
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Hossbach Memorandum
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Secret meeting between Hitler and Hitler's military leaders to discuss the future foreign policies and expansionism plans.
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Blitzkrieg
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Military tactic of the Germans based on an opening bombardment followed by a fast mobilization of ground units to deny the enemy's fight back.
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WWII started when Germany invaded which country?
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Poland
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Which of the following is not an ally power: United States, Italy, China, or the Soviet Union?
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Italy
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Who was Germany's secret police commanded by?
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Himmler
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What was the purpose of the Manhattan Project?
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To develop the Atomic Bomb
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Where did the name "Battle of the Bulge" come from?
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Nazi’s pushing ally forces back creating a bulge in the ally military line.
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Goebbel's was the German Minister of...?
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Public Enlightenment Propoganda
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For the Soviet Union, what was the turning point in the war in Europe?
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Their victory in Stalingrad
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Describe Blitzkrieg.
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A swift and powerful military tactic used by Hitler and the Nazis.
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What Ally forces were involved in D-Day?
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Canada, US, and Uk
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What best describes the timeline of the invasion in Normandy?
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Ally troops were overpowered in the first day, but continued to persist and by the third day had turned the beaches into an Ally port.
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Which is not a significant reason for Hitler’s defeat?
Fighting Russia in winter, invading too many countries too fast and being too spread out to supply all Germans, weak luftwaffe (air force) put the Germans at a disadvantage, or the Blitzkrieg was not effective in the invasion of Poland. |
The Blitzkrieg was not effective in the invasion of Poland.
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Harry S. Truman
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33rd President: Commander in Chief of the United States military during the final months of WWII.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Commanded the D-Day while servicing as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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32nd President: Led the US through the great depression and all but 4 months of WWII
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Douglas MacArthur
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Commanded the war the in the Pacific in WWII
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Erwin Rommel
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"Desert Fox"
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Adolf Hitler
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Leader of the Nazi Party
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Winston Churchill
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Prime minister of Britain and First Lord of the Admiralty who fought the Nazis
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Neville Chamberlain
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Prime minister of Britain who decided to hand over the Sudetenland to Germany for "Peace in our time"
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Benito Mussolini
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Fascist leader of Italy who sided with the Nazis in WWII
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Joseph Stalin
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Communist Dictator of the USSR who was part of the Allied forces during WWII
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Joseph Goebbels
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Head of propaganda for the Nazi Party
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Herman Goering
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Chief of the Luftwaffe in Germany/Chief of the German Air Force.
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Military act that brought the U.S. into the war
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Pearl Harbor
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The first significant act that started WWII
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Germany invaded Poland.
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When did the USA and Britain declare war on Japan?
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December 8 1941
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Japan presented a secret ultimatum in January 1915 designed to give Japan regional ascendency.
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The "Twenty-One Demands" on China
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Japan's immediate response was to occupy Saigon, Vietnam with Vichy France's acquiescence.
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US freezes all Japanese assets.
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One reason that the Soviets were able to defeat German Army.
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In 1941, Hitler took over the army himself, which had a disastrous impact on the conduct of the war.
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American drops the A-bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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August 6 1945
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The Empire of Japan surrendered on September 2, 1945
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End of WWII
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Japan launched aggression against China on July 7, 1937.
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The war between Japan and China started.
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China declared war on Japan
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December 9, 1941
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Britain and the US were primarily fighting in the air and sea. Stalin wanted them to open up another front to….
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Divert the Germans from the Soviet Union
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US won the battle of Midway in June 1942
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The turning point of the war in the Pacific.
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