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Hiroshima
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city in Japan that the Americans bombed on August 6th, 1945. 210,000 people died because of this
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Nagasaki
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City in Japan bombed three days after the first atomic bomb. 70,000 people were killed immediately
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Auschwitz
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the largest of the extermination camps during the Holocaust. It had huge gas chambers that could kill as may as 6,000 humans a day
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Battle of Britain
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a series of battles between German and British air forces, fought over Britain. Germans faced their first loss.
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Blitzkrieg
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Germany's military stratagey known as the "lightning war" which involved using fast-moving planes and tanks followed by massive infantry forces. Suprise attack and overwhelmed the enemy
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"Final Solution"
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Hitler's program of systematically killing the entire Jewish population. This was genocide
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Demilitarization of Japan
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disbanding of Japanese armed forces. General Douglas MacArthur achived this quickly
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Nuremberg Trails
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series of court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany, after WWII, in which Nazi leaders were tried for aggression, violations of war, and crimes against humanity
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Soviet Union
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Country with most lives lost in the war
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Shipped to relocation camps that were restricted military areas located far away from the coast. They were called "enemy aliens"
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The Japanese Americans during WWII
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Kamikazes
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Japanese suicide pilots who would sink Allied ships by crash-diving their bomb filled planes into them
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D-Day
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Invasion of the European mainland on June 6th,1944. British, American, French, and Canadian troops fought their way onto a 60-mile stretch of beach in Normandy. 2,700 American casualties.
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They had an alliance with Poland, who was under German attack
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Why did Great Britain and France enter WWII?
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Eisenhower
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high-ranked American general who was commander of the enormous D-Day force
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"Island Hopping"
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plan developed by General Douglas MacArthur to "island hop" or pass over Japanese strongholds and seize islands that weren't well defended but were closer to Japan.
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Battle of Midway
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sea and air battle in which American forces defeated Japanese forces in the central Pacific
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Bataan Death March
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Japanese forced the Allies to marh more than 50 miles up the Batann Peninsula. Treated them cruel
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Yamamoto
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Admiral who called for a suprise attack on the US fleet in Hawaii, Pearl Harbor.
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Atlantic Charter
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declaration of principles issued in August 1941 by British prime minister, Winston Churchill, and US president, Franklin Roosevelt, on which the Allied peace plan at the end of WWII was based
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Douglas MacArthur
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Allied general and commander of the Allied land forces in the Pacific. Developed military tactic of "island-hopping"
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Holocaust
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mass slaughter of Jews and other civilians at concentration camps where they were killed in gas chambers, shot, or died from starvation. Carried out by Nazi government
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genocide
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systematic killing of an entire people
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