Ch. 16 Wwii

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Agreement between Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler in which the two plotted to divide Poland between them?

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Nonaggression Pact (Nazi-Soviet Pact)

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Germany's military strategy of "lightning war"

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blitzkrieg

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A system of fortifications along France's border with Germany (phony war)

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Maginot line

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French port city near the Belgian border from which a fleet of British ships and civilian craft evacuated trapped soldiers in 1940

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Dunkirk

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French general who organized the Free French military forces to fight the Nazis

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Charles de Gaulle

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British prime minister during WWII

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Winston Churchill

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Name for Germany's air force

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Lutwaffe

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1941 battle that demonstrated that Hitler's attacks could be blocked

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Battle of Britain

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Commander of Hitler's crack German tank force, the Afrika Corps

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Erwin Rommel(Desert Fox)

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Joint declaration issued by Roosevelt and Churchill that upheld free trade among nations and the people's right to choose their own government

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Atlantic Charter

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The American commander of the Allied land forces in the Pacific during WWII was ?

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Douglas MacArthur

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After WWII former Nazi leaders faced charges of waging a war of aggression and committing crimes against humanity?

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Nuremburg Trials

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The American general who served as commander of the Allied forces in Europe during WWII was?

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The German air attacks on Britain's air force and cities that lasted from the summer of 1940 until May 10, 1941 is known as?

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Battle of Britain

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The first day of the invasion of Normandy in WWII is known as ?

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D-Day

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The battle that brought the war in Europe to a quick end was the?

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Battle of Bulge

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The process of disbanding a country's armed forces is called?

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demilitarization

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The short battle that turned the tide of war in favor of the Allies in the Pacific was the ?

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Battle of Midway

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Give in to the aggressor to keep peace?

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appeasement

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Avoid getting in another country's affair?

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isolationism

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Sitting war

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sitzkrieg

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Cutoff supplies to trade/ refused to trade?

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sanctions

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German airforce

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Luftwaffe

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Division of a country?

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Partisans

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Camps equip with huge gas chambers that killed up to 6,000 people a day?

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death camps

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Put the jews in to work ?

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concentration camps

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S.S. group arranged the killings of the Jews?

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Einsatzgruppen

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People worked with Germans in France?

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collaborators

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Japanese suicide pilots?

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kamikaze

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Mass killing of over 6 million jews and others ?

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Holocaust

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Camps used to segregate a certain group of people?

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internment

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Hitler's program of killing Jews?

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Final Solution

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Germany, italy, and japan

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axis powers

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Britain, Soviet Union, U.S.

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Allied powers

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Prime minister of G.B. before WWII, munich pact , and policy of appeasement with Hitler?

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Neville Chamberlain

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Leader of the Axis Powers/Dictator of Germany, involved with all acts of German aggression on the European and African Fronts, driving force behind all of Germany's aggressive actions?

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Adolf Hitler

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New prime minister of G.B., Atlantic Charter, blocked Hitler's attack in the Battle of Britain?

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Winston Churchill

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Dictator of Soviet Union WWII, Battle of Britain, attacked British soldiers pushing 60 miles inside N. Africa, allied with Hitler to fight against France and G.B.?

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Benito Mussolini

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Dictator of Soviet Union WWII, signed nonaggression pact with Hitler (hitler invades soviet union), joined allies in defeating Hitler?

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Joseph Stalin

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French general, set up a government in exile in London, committed all energy to reconquering France, called on the people after 9 months of France to join him?

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Charles de Gaulle

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Unruly leader of "warlords" China, helped defeat japanese to become Allies, supported by U.S.?

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Chiang Kai-shek

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Prime minister during Pearl Harbor attack in Japan, planned attack of pearl harbor, remove americans from the Pacific with Pearl Harbor?

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Hideki Tojo

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German leader of the tank force , forced British forces to retreat east to Tobruks, Libya, pushed the Britain back in N. Africa "Desert Fox" trying to get Suez Canal?

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Erwin Rommel

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Supreme Commander of Allied forces in Europe, leader of D-Day invasion, accept unconditional surrender from Germany?

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Commander of Allied forces in Pacific, leader of Battle of Guadalcanal, used island- hopping against Japan?

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Douglas MacArthur

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President of U.S. during majority of WWII, signed Atlantic Charter with churchill, cut off all oil supplies to Japan?

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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President of U.S. after Roosevelt die, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, approved the use of the atomic bomb?

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Harry S. Truman

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What did each leader gain from signing the nonaggression pact?

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Piece of Poland, and removed a threat attacking Germany

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What strategy did Hitler use to conquer Poland?

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blitzkrieg

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What was Hitler's plan for conquering France?

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Went through the netherlands, Belgium, Ardenne Forest with tanks

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What happened at Dunkirk?

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French trapped to sea and English saved them