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87 Cards in this Set
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Dynamo
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Rescue at Dunkirk
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Barbarossa
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German invasion of the soviet union
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Sea lion
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Going to be a German invasion at Great Britain
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Overlord
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D-Day landings
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Fortitude
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Americans tried to fake out the Germans with the Fake tanks
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Sept 1, 1939
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Invasion of Poland
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June 6, 1944
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D-Day
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April 30, 1945
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Hitler commits suicide
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May 8, 1945
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V-E day in Europe
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T34
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Russian tank
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Tiger
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German tank
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King Tiger
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German tank
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Sherman
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American tank
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Invasion of Poland
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unleashing of Blitzkrieg
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Dunkirk
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resue of allied forces
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Battle of Britain
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control for the skies/air battles
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Battle of the Atlantic
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U-boats vs. Liberty ships
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Leningrad
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900 day seige
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Stalingrad
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bloodiest fighting
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Moscow
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German troops reached suburbs
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D-Day
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invasion of France
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Bulge
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last major German offense
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Berlin
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last battle of the war, Germans used ole men and little children to fight
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Kursk
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Largest tank battle
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Caral Sea
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battle in the Pacific
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El Alamein
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battle in North Africa
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Black shirts
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Mussolini's private army of the thugs
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Brown shirts/SA
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HItler's army of thugs
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De-Gualle
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leader of free France, liberated Paris
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Munich Conference
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held to decide the fate of the Sudaton land
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Munich Pact
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gave Sudaton land to the Germans
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Appeasement
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to give in to a bully
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Anschluss
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union between Austria and Germany
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Washington Naval Conference
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First disarment conference in History, limited battleships for a nation
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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64 nations signed it, outlawed war
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Ethiopia Invasion
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Italy invaded Ethiopia
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Bletchley Park
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location where Enigma machine was broken
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USS Rueben James
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American ship that was destroyed before Pearl Harbor
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ASDIC
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sonar
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Hemingway
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Wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls For, Old man and the Sea, and the Sun also rises
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Hindenburg
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president of Germany before Hitler
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modern artists
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Picasso, and MIro
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Halie Selassie
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emperor of Ethiopia
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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most important architect in America
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Michael cllins
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Irish Independence Leader
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Ernest Rohm
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Head of the SA
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Dr. Mengele
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doctor at Auswich
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Joseph Goebbles
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minister of propaganda
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Herman Goring
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Head of the German airforce
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Albert Speer
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architect of 3rd reich, did the Nuremberg Stadiums
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Reinhard Heydrich
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2nd in line of the SS, helped plan the Final Solution
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Eva Braun
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Hitler's mistress
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Jimmy Doolittle
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bombing raid in Tokyo
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Adolf Eichman
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Responsible for the Madagascar plan and Final Solution
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Heinrich Himmler
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Head of the SS and tried to renegotiate peace with England
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Laval and H. Petain
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leaders of Vichy France
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De Gaulle
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leader of Free French, liberated Paris
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General Franco
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Fascist leader of Spain
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Mussolini
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Il Dulce, leader of Italy
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J. Stalin
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leader of USSR
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N. Chamberlin
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minister that signed the Munich pact
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W. Churchill
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bulldog, prime minister
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Rosie the Riveter
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woman propaganda figure
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Eisenhower
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allied supreme commander
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Liverty Ships
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cargo ship
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Wolf Packs
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groups of U Boats
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Enigma machine
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German code machine
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Blitzkrieg
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lightening warfare
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Sitkrieg
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phony war
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convoy system
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American liberty ships escorted to avoid attacks from the wolf packs
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Atlantic wall
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defenses that protected the French border
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Pointe du Hoc
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D-Day cliffs
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101 Airborne
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lines at Bastone in the battle of the Bulge, dropped behind enemy lines on D-Day
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82ne Airborne
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Dropped behind enemy lines on D-Day
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Lend Lease
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US loaned weapons and ships to Great Britain
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RAF
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British airforce
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Blitz
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Nazi bombing of London in the Battle of Britain
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Island Hopping
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American strategy in Pacific
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Kamikaze
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Japanese suicide pilots
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Radar
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helped British in the battle of Britain
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Nato
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American's allies post WW2
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Guernica
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Spanish city bombed during war
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Gestapo
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German secret police
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Locarno Treaty
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treaties settled borders between Germany and France
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Commonwealth of Nations
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group of nations-former British colonies with special trading rights
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Ruhr Valley
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Industrial section of German that the allies tried to bomb
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Higgins boat
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landing boats used in WW2
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