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41 Cards in this Set
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Rhineland |
a buffer zone between France and Germany |
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Appeasement |
giving into the demands of an aggressor to keep the peace |
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Axis Powers |
Germany, Italy, Japan |
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Allied Powers |
U.S, Britain, France, USSR |
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Isolationism |
a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries |
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Third Reich |
German empire |
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Sudetenland |
German speaking area, Czechoslovakia |
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Non-Aggression Pact |
Hitler and Stalin signed this pact to pledge to never attack one another |
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Blitzkreig |
"lightning war" |
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Radar |
device used to detect airplanes |
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Enigma |
a machine that enabled the British to decode German secret messages |
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Lend-Lease Act |
U.S could lend or lease arms and supplies to the Allies |
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Sanction |
penalties |
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Pacifism |
opposition to all war |
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Anschluss |
union of Austria and Hungary |
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Sonar |
device used to detect submarines |
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Genocide |
to deliberately murder |
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Reparations |
payment for damages caused by imprisonment |
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Island-hopping |
method used by allied forces to recapture some Japanese-held islands in the pacific while bypassing others |
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Kamikaze |
Japanese pilots who undertook a suicide mission |
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Containment |
cold war policy of limiting communism to areas already under Soviet control |
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Satellite |
dependent state |
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Benito Mussolini |
Prime Minister of Italy... Invaded Ethiopia |
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Adolf Hitler |
Leader of Nazi movement... Germany |
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Franklin Roosevelt |
President of USA during the time, died right before declaration of war |
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Joseph Stalin |
Russian Dictator |
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Hideki Tojo |
Prime Minister of Japan |
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Neville Chamberlin |
(1) Prime Minister of Britain... Declared war on Germany |
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Winston Churchill |
(2) Prime Minister of Britain... took spot of Chamberlin |
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Munich Conference |
September 28-29, 1938... leaders of Great Britain, France, and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex certain areas of Czechoslovakia |
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Battle of Britain |
Britain stood alone to fight against Nazis, Hitler called off the attacks after a year without success |
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Operation Barbarossa |
Hitler sent German troops to invade the Soviet Union... Germans were not ready for the cold |
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Pearl Harbor |
December 7, 1941... Japan planned a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, O'ahu, Hawaii |
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Battle of Midway |
Japan planned to attack American airfield on the island of Midway in the Pacific... Turning point of the war in the Pacific |
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Battle of Stalingrad |
Hitler sent troops to the USSR to take over Stalingrad on the Volga River |
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D-Day |
Operation Overlord... Allies planned to strike coast of Normandy... Largest land and sea attack... June 6, 1944 |
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Battle of the Bulge |
Hitler decided to attack American and British forces in attempt to break supply lines and weaken the allies |
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VE Day |
(VICTORY in EUROPE)... May 8-9, 1945... Marks day of German surrender |
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Battle of Okinawa |
April 1-June 21, 1944... American troops battler Japanese for the island of Okinawa... One of bloodiest land battles of all time |
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Manhattan Project |
top secret project that developed the first atomic bomb |
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VJ Day |
(VICTORY over JAPAN) September 2, 1945... declared the end of world war 2 |
