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44 Cards in this Set
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Pearl Harbour
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December 7, 1941
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The Second Front
opened what year... idea that USA & Britain should invade western Europe |
1944
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The Battle of the Coral Sea
entire battle...planes vs. planes between Japanese & Americans |
May 1942
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The Blitz
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September 1940 - May 1941
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The Italian Campaign
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1943
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Nagasaki
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August 9, 1945
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Holocaust
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1938 - 1945
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Tehran Conference
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November - December 1943
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Yalta Conference
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February 1945
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Potsdam Conference
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July - August 1945
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Operation Overlord
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June 6, 1944
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Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere
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1937 - 1942
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Appeasement
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1937 - 1939
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Battle of Stalingrad
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September 1, 1942
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The Nazi-Soviet Pact
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August 23, 1939
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The Battle of the Midway Islands
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June 1942
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Battle of Leyte Gulf
largest naval battle in history kamikaze pilots American victory |
October 1944
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Iwo Jima
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February 1945
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Okinawa
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April - June 1945
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Manhatten Project
when did it begin? |
March 1943
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Hiroshima
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August 6, 1945
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Salerno
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September 1943 - May 1945
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Operation Sealion
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July 16, 1940
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Atlantic Charter
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August 1941
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Battle of the Bulge
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December 15, 1944
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El Alamein
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October 1942
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Sudetenland
seized by Nazis when? |
September 1938
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Island-Hopping
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1943
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Dunkirk
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May - June 1940
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Battle of Britain
Luftwaffe vs. Royal Air Force battle for control of the skies above Britain & Eng. Channel |
July - September 1940
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Winter War
AND when was peace treaty signed? |
November 30, 1939
March 12, 1940 |
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Nuremburg Trials
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1946
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Phony War
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September 1939 - April 1940
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Wannsee Conference
Nazis put finishing touches on Final Solution |
January 1942
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The Rhineland Crisis
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March 1936
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The Spanish Civil War
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July 1936
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The Anschluss Annexation
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March 1938
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The Munich Crisis
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October 1938
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The end of Czechoslovakia
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March 1939
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Invasion of Poland
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September 1939
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Japanese aggression
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1940
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Barbarossa
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June 22 1941
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Newfoundland (Wartime Conference)
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August 1941
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Battle of the Atlantic
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Spring 1943
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