Wwii

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Appeasement

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Satisfying demands of dissatisfied powers to maintain peace and stability.

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Blitzkrieg

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German for “Lightening War,” a swift and sudden military attack

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Winston Churchill

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British leader during WWII.

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Adolf Hitler

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German leader during WWII.

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Mussolini

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Leader of Italy during WWII.

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Stalin

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Leader of Soviet Union during WWII.

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Chiang Kai-Shek

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Leader of China during WWII.

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FDR

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American leader during WWII.

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Charles De Gaulle

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French leader during WWII.

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The Axis Powers

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Germany, Italy, Japan

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The Allies

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US, Great Britain, France, Soviet Union, China

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September 1, 1939

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Outbreak of WWII. Germans invade Poland.

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December 7, 1941

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Pearl Harbor. Japan attacks US, US enters the war.

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June 6, 1944

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Normandy Invasion. Liberated France.

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Eisenhower

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Overall allied commander in Europe.

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Erwin Rommel

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German General named Desert Fox. Later commits suicide.

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Douglas MacArthur

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American general who proclaimed, "I shall return" as he left the Phillippines

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Luftwaffe

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German Air Force

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Battle of Britain

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Fought entirely with planes

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Yalta

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Meeting between Churchill, FDR, and Stalin which would determine how the post war world would be divided.

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Iwo Jima

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Island immortalized by US marines raising the American flag over Mt. Suribachi

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Chamberlain

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British prime ministers would appeased Hitler

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Battle of the Bulge

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Germany's last attempt to win the war

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Maginot Line

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Series of Fortifications along France's German border

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island hopping

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US tactic to gain military bases in the Pacific

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Stalingrad

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Battle on the eastern front that turned the tide in favor of the allies

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Truman

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President who dropped the atomic bomb on Japan.

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Two cities in Japan that US dropped atomic bombs

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Anchluss

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Political union of Germany and Austria

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kamikaze

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Japanese pilots who flew suicide missions

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appeasement

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policy of granting concessions in order to maintain peace

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Why Truman wanted to avoid invasion of Japan

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The belief that Americans would suffer heavy losses

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Italy

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The soft underbelly of Europe, according to Churchill

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Midway Island

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The turning point of the war in Asia that established US naval superiority

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unconditional surrender

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What the allies wanted from axis powers

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Japanese domination of the Pacific

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Japan thought the US would accept this

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My Struggle

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Mein Kampf, Hitler's book

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Aryan, according to Hitler

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ancient Greeks and Romans, Germans, Scandanavians

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Kristallnacht

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A destructive rampage against the Jews led by the Nazis.

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Hitler's goal

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Third Reich

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Hitler's political theories

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racism, Darwinism, nationalism

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D-Day

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Allies invasion of Normandy

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Dictatorships

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Between the wars, many European democracies turned to this to lead people through the depression.

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Important Islands in the Pacific Theater

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Iwo Jima, Midway, Okinawa

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Hideko Tojo

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Leader of Japan during WWII.