Chapter 16 (World War Ii)

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Agreement between Stalin and Hitler in which the two plotted to divide Poland between them

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Nonagression Pact

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Germany's military strategy of "lightning war"

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Blitzkrieg

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System of fortifications along France's border with Germany

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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 World War II

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Winston Churchill

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Name for Germany's air force

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Luftwaffe

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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 Korps

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Erwin Rommel

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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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September 1, 1939. Started World War II

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Invasion of Poland

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American commander of Allied forces in the Pacific during World War II

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Douglas MacArthur

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Former Nazi leaders faced charges of waging a war of aggression and committing crimes against humanity here

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Nuremburg Trials

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American general who served as commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The first day of the invasion of Normandy in World War II was known as this

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D-Day

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

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Battle of the Bulge

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The process of disbanding a country's armed forces

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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

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Battle of Midway

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To cut off aid and supplies

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Sanction

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Division of a country

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Partisan

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S.S. death squad that arranged the killing of the Jews

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Einsatzgruppen

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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 certain groups of people

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Internment

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Hitler's program of systematically killing Jews

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Final Solution

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Germany, Italy, 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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Japan's greatest naval strategist who called for an attack on the U.S. fleet in Hawaii.

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Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

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December 7, 1941

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Attack of Pearl Harbor

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Japanese abandoned the "Island of Death" after losing more than 24,000 of a force of 36,000 soldiers in this battle

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Battle of Gaudalcanal

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Segregated Jewish areas

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Ghettos

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Systematic killing of an entire people

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Genocide

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Battle that cost the Soviets over one million soldiers but put the Germans on the defensive

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Battle of Stalingrad

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Process of creating a government elected by the people

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Democratization

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What did each leader gain from the nonagression pact?

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They each got half of Poland and it relieved the threat of a Soviet attack on Germany

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What was Hitler's plan for conquering France?

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He went through the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg then used tanks and troops to get through the Ardennes

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What was the outcome of the Battle of Britain?

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The British didn't surrender and Germany backed off and called off the bombing.

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What was the outcome of the fighting at Tobruk?

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The Germans defeated the British and took over Tobruk

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How did Hitler's invasion compare with Napoleon's invasion of Russia?

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They lost soldiers because of the harsh winter and the scorched-earth strategy was used

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Made it illegal to sell arms or lend money to nations at war

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Neutrality Acts

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Allies pay cash then carry goods on their own ships

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Cash & Carry

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President can lend or lease arms and other supplies to any country vital to the U.S.

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Lend Lease Act

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August 6, 1945 U.S dropped the atomic bomb here

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Hiroshima

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September 4, 1941 when a German U-boat fired on a U.S. destroyer in the Atlantic

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Battle of the Atlantic

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Leader of China who became an ally during World War II

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Chiang Kai-shek

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Prime Minister of Japan during World War II who planned the attack of Pearl Harbor and wanted to remove America from the Pacific

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Hideki Tojo

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President of the U.S. during the majority of World War II

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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President of the U.S. after Roosevelt's death

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Harry S. Truman

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The Japanese navy lost disastrously and was eliminated as a fighting force in the war because of this battle

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Battle of Leyte Gulf

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June 22, 1940

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Surrender of France