American History Chapter 24-25

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blitzkrieg.-

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identify the term for military tactic which depended on coordinated attacks and used large numbers of masses tanks with air support to break through the lines then encircle the opponents armies

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Anschluss.

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Hitler marches in and takes control of Austria. Identify the term for this action

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Kristallnacht.

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Identify the name for anti-Jewish violence which occurred on November 1938 in which 90 Jewish people had been killed hundreds were injured 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed and 1,800 synagogues were wrecked

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Gestapo. -

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The secret police

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Holocaust

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the catastrophe that ravaged Europe’s Jews, the Nazis killed nearly 6 million Jews

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Auschwitz

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was the largest extermination camp

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Concentration camps

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detention centers established in 1933 to jails political opponents

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Strategic material

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Congressed passed the export control act in July what did this give Roosevelt the power to restrict sale of

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Churchill

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prime minister of Britain

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Goebbels

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minister of propaganda

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Yamamoto

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Identify the Japanese admiral responsible for designing the plan to bomb Pearl Harbor and the battle of midway

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Cost-plus system

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is that the government agreed to pay a company whatever it cost to make a product plus a guaranteed percentage of the cost of profit

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Reconstruction Finance Corporation Corporation

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a government agency set up during the depression was now permitted to make loans to companies to help them cover the cost of converting to war production

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Phony war

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identify the term used to describe the lack of military action along the German French border

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America First Committee

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Identify the name for those Americans who firmly opposed any aid to the allies

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Selective Service and Training Act

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the first peacetime draft in American history

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What did the War Production Board (WPB do

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they had the authority to set priorities and production goals and to control the distribution of raw materials and supplies

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Neville Chamberlain

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British prime minister most responsible for calling the Munich conference

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Hermann Goering

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Nazi interior minister who added insult to injury by fining the Jewish community to pay for the damage for kristannacht

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Erwin Rommel

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Identify the German commander in charge of these units

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Maginot Line

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what was the French defensive military position based upon I 1940

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Radar

Back 22

during the battle of Britain what technological advantage was held by Britain?

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Fight for Freedom Committee

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Identify the name for those Americans who wanted neutrality act repealed and strong action against Germany

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Office of War Mobilization (OWM)

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Roosevelt established this governmental agency to settle arguments between different agencies

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Liberty ships

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the basic cargo ship used during the war

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Dunkirk

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This is Where the British force was trapped on the beach

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The Atlantic Charter

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Identify the name of the agreement between Churchill and Roosevelt that committed two nations to a post war world of democracy, free trade, economic advancement and freedom of seas

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Suez Canal

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Identify the waterway considered to be the link between the British Empire and Britain

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El Alamein

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identify the great British victory over the Germans in North Africa

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Douglas MacArthur

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Identify the commander of the American force in the Philippines when the Japanese attacked in 1941