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25 Cards in this Set
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Totalitarianism |
Govt. (Dictator) has complete control over it's citizens |
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Joseph Stalin |
Communist: Dictator of the Soviet Union. Made SU a superpower and had a lot of deaths
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Benito Mussolin |
Facist dicator of Italy, rules the counry from the 20's-40's |
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Adolf Hitler |
Fascist/Nazi dictator of Germany belief in the racial superiority: leads to holocaust
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Hidek Tojo |
Military ruler of Japanese Empire |
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Facism |
Strong Centralized govt. opposed to communism, Use uniforms, hand salutes, extreme natalism |
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Nazism |
Form of Facism that takes of racial rhetoric |
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Causes of WWII |
1. Germany and Soviet Union angered over loss of land 2. Failures of Treaty of Versailles:Germany pay for WWI 3.Appeasement: Conceding to aggression 4.Non aggression Pact: Germany and SU sign to not fight each other |
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Blitzkrieg "Lightening War" |
New Military tatic that catches Britian and France by suprise |
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The Phoney War |
Errie calm for 3 months after Germany and France declare war. (Sitting War |
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Allies |
France, US, SU, Great Britian |
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Axis: |
Germany, Italy, Japan |
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Pearl Harbor |
Dec 7th, 1941, Japan bombs US |
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Peration Torch |
Invasion of AFrica led by General Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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Turning point for Allies |
Battle of the Bulge |
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D-Day |
June 6th 1944 America and British forces land on the beachees of Normandy and Omaha in France-Western Front |
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Lend-lease Act |
Spent $50 Billion on building war to time good: Food and Supplies to Allies |
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V-E Day |
Victory in Europe Day: Surrender of Germany makes victory in Europe--May 8th 1945 |
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Chester Nimitz |
Naval Commander of the Pacific--Island Hopping |
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Important battles with Japan |
Iwo Jima and Battle of Okinawa |
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Manhattan Project |
Secert project to create the atomic bomb led by Oppenheimer |
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Little Boy and Fat Man |
Dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima |
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Churchill |
British governer |
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The Yalta Conference |
Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt meet to discuss end of the war ---Create the United Nations |
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Holocaust |
The night of broken glass, Nov 19th 1938 (Kristallnact) |
