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40 Cards in this Set
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What were two countries that were taken in North Africa?
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Morocco and Algeria
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Which act said that America won't take sides in the Spanish Civil War?
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3rd Neutrality Act
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Who was the dictator in Spain after the Spanish Civil War?
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Francisco Franco
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The Nuremburg trials charged what group?
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Nazis
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The people's republic of Germany was what type of government?
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Cummunist
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Who complained about FDR running for a third term?
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Wilkie
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What does Blitzkreig mean?
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Lightening War
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Who became the world's 2nd largest power in 1937?
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USSR
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Who was the communist dictator in Russia before Stalin?
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Lenin
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Who was the head general in the Pacific?
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McArthur
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Who planned the black march in Washington in 1941?
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A. Philip Randolph
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What two nations did the Nazis take in order to prevent the British blockade?
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Denmark and Norway
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The USS Pene was accidentally attacked when Japan was attacking what country?
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China
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Who was in charge of creation of the Atomic bomb?
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Oppenheimer
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The upper and middle class in Italy supported what type of gov't?
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Facism
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What act created a peace time draft in America?
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Selective Service Act
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What group did 9066 target?
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Japanese Americans
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What was the operation that planned to go accross the English Channel to take France?
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Overlord
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What was the attack on the Japanese the increased American morale?
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Doolittle Raids
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Which program developed the Atomic Bomb?
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Manhatten Project
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What islands did McArthur say "I will return"?
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Philippennes
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In what battle did the Japanese and Americans use airplanes?
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Coral Reef
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Three reasons why we dropped the atomic bomb
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-We believed it would shorten the war
-Believed it would save American lives -To intimidate the USSR |
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Targeted groups in the Holocaust
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Jews, Jehovah Witnesses, Catholics, Gypsies, Homosexual males, Blacks, and Communists
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First Neutrality Act
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America won't sell arms to other countries in the war
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Second Neutrality Act
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America won't make loans to countries at war
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Third Neutrality Act
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America won't help either side in the Spanish Civil War
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Fourth Neutrality Act
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Cash and Carry
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Munich Conference
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Germany allowed to keep Sudentland
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Casablanca Conference
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Attack Sicily and Italy
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Tehran Conference
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Open front in France
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Yalta Conference
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Free elections in Poland
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Potsdam Conference
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Harsh on Germany, tell Stalin about Atomic bomb
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San Francisco Conference
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Establish United Nations
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Occupation of Japan
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-Reduce size of Japan
-Democratize-free elections -Disarm-smaller military -Warcrime Trials -Economic Recovery |
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Nazi goals of Mein Kampf
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-Unite all German Speaking people
-Racial purification -Lebensraum-expand living space |
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Communist
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Militaristic, expansiontistic, censorship of information, absense of private property, totalitarian
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Facist
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Nationalistic, militaristic, expansionistic, protection of private property, censorship of information, totalitarian
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European theater battles
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Dunkirk, Britian, Atlantic, Stalingrad, North African, Bulge, D-Day
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Pacific Theater battles
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Doolittle Raids, Coral Sea, Midway, Lyete Gulf, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Pearl Harbor
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