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43 Cards in this Set
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not letting a country build up its military
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demilitarized
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To give into an aggressor to keep peace
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appeasement
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stay out of foriegn affairs and wars
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isolationism
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lighting war (massive army comes in quick and overwhelming)
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blitzkrieg
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Nothing was happening between Germany and France; they were at a stare off
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sitzkrieg(phony war)
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a name for the german airforce
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Luffwaffe
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When you cut off supplies or refuse to trade with a country
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sanctions
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Its the division of a country
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partisans
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Camps equited with huge gas chambers that killed 6,000 people a day
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death camps
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Camps were they put jews to work(slave labor prisoners)
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concentration camps
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what was Hitlers elite security force called
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Einsatzgruppen
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People who worked with Germany in France
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collaborators
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Japanese suicide pilots
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kamikaze
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The systematic mass slaughter of Jews and other groups judged inferior by the Nazis
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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 systematic killing of the entire Jewish people
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final solution
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Germany, Italy, and Japan
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axis powers
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Britian, Soviet Union, and United States
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allied powers
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A system of fortifications along France's border with Germany
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Maginot Line
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1941 battle the demonstrated the Hitlers attacks could be blocked
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Battle of Britian
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The American commander of the land forces in the Pacific during WWII
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Douglas MacArthur
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French port city near the belgain 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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Commander of Hitler's crack German tank force, the Afrika Korps
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Erwin rommel
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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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Joint declaration issued by Roosevelt and churchill that upheld free trade amoung nations and the people's right to choose their own government
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atlantic charter
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British prime minister during WWII
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winston churchill
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Agreement between Soviet leader Stalin and Hitler in which the two plotted to divide Poland between them
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nonagression pact
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The american general who served as commander of the allied forces in Europe during WWII
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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After WWII, former Nazi leaders faced charges of waging a war of agression and committing crimes against humanity
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Nuremberg trails
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The first day of the invasion of Normandy in WWII
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D-day
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The battle that brought the war in Europe to a quick end
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The battle of the bulge
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The short battlew that turned the tide of the war in favor of the Allies in the pacific
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battle of midway
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When WWII start
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September 1,1939
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When was the blitzkrieg against Denmark and Norway
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April 9,1940
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The guy in Vichy that set up a puppet government in Southern France
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Marshall Phillippe Petain
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They were in charge of capturing North Africa and to get the suez canal from the British
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Italians
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Laws that made it illegal to sell arms or lend money to nations at war
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Neutrality
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allies would pay cash and then carry the goods on their own ships
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cash and carry
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Could lend or lease arms and other supplies to any country vital to the United Sates
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Lend-Lease Act
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Leader of Italy that declared was on France and Great Britian
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Benito Mussolini
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Prime Minister of Great Britian before WWII That set up the Munich Pact
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Neville Chamberlain
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
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December 1941
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He approved the use of the atomic bomb
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Harry S. Truman
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