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why did France and gray Britain enter the war |
because Germany attacked poland |
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who did the Germans first use the blitzkrieg attack on |
poland |
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who was Charles de gaulle |
leader of the French government in exile |
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what were the avantage of great Britain while fighting the battle of britain |
radar and breaking enigma |
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what was the Atlantic Charter |
upheld free trade among nations and the right of people to choose their own government. signed by Roosevelt and Churchill. |
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how did the lend else act benefi y the us |
made money and allies |
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what led to the fall of france |
French government surrendered |
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what was Hitler's reason for attacking poland. |
part of Germany was given to poland by the treaty of Versailles after world War one. |
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why is Yamamoto famous |
japan's greatest naval strategist. |
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who want on the Bataan Death March and why |
prisoners of war because Japanese forced them |
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what even turned the tade of war in favor of the allies |
Battle of coral sea |
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how were the islands siezed by the island hopping campaign |
us troops storm guadalcanal and eventually size control of the island |
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who was the mastermind behind island hopping |
Douglass MacAurthur |
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who was supreme commander of the western allied troops |
Dwight Eisenhower |
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what did island hopping involve |
taking control of weaker islands close to Japan. |
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how were the Holocaust and the final solution connected |
the Holocaust was the final solution |
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how did kristallnacht demonstrate nazis persecution of jews |
night of broken glass. nazis killed many nit caring if weak or strong young or old |
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what was the location of an infamous nazis extermination camp |
auschwitz was located in poland |
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what happened on d day |
Allied troops stormed the beach at Normandy but German soldiers anticipated the attack. many died |
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who were the targets of the kamikazes |
Allied ships |
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who led victorious troops in the battle of El alamien |
montgomery |
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why were Japanese Americans interned at relocation camps |
they were considered a danger to national security |
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how do civilians join the war effort |
filling in jobs. war bonds. |
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why did Truman agree to use the atomic bomb |
To end the war in the pacific |
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what happened at the battle f stalingrad |
German forces were defeated in their attempt to take the Russian city of stalingrad. |
