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40 Cards in this Set
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what is a nonaggression pact?
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an agreement that says they will not attack or invade one another
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The leader of Germany was...
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Adolf Hitler
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The leader of the Soviet Union was...
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Stalin
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The leader of the French gov. and army was...
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Charles de Gaulle
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The leader of Great Britain
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Winston Churchill
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Italy's leader who joined Hitler's side was...
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Benito Mussolini
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Our U.S. president at the beginning of WWII was...he met with Churchill before getting involved.
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President Roosevelt (FDR) Franklin D. Roosevelt
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German General was...
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Erwin Rommel
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The British Army was led by...
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General Bernard Mongomery
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The American troops were under the command of this general during the D-Day invasion
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Dwight D. Eisenhower (IKE)
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Our U.S. President Roosevelt died and the U.S. President that took over close to the end of WWII was... (he ordered the atomic bomb to be dropped on two cities in Japan)
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President Harry Truman
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The Japanese Admiral who planned the attack at Pearl Harbor was...
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Isoroku Yamamoto
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The U.S. general who commanded Allied forces in the Japanese Pacific was...
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Douglas MacArthur
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Warfare in which surprise air attacks are followed by massive attacks on land ( Germany invaded Poland and used this technique on them to cause them to fall)
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Blitzkrieg (lightning war)
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The allies were...
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France
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The Soviet Army was called the...
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Red Army
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The Axis group was...
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Germany
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Roosevelt met with Churchill in Aug. 1941 to issue a statement called the ______. It supported free trade and the right of people to form their own gov.t.
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Atlantic Charter
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Germany lost in this battle. It lasted many months and the germans were unable to break British defenses
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so Hitler called of the attacks.
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The Soviets (Red Army) forced the Germans out of Stalingrad. It was a major victory for the Soviets.
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Battle of Stalingrad
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This was a huge allied invasion to take back France from Germany. Thousands of ships
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planes and soldiers were launched.
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Hitler ordered his army to make one final
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large scale attack in the west
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Japanese suicide pilots sank Allied ships by crashing their bomb-filled planes into them were called...
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kamikaze
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The two Japanese cities where Truman ordered atomic bombs to be dropped were...
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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The U.S. Navy base in Hawaii attacked by Japanese which caused the U.S. the very next day to declare war on Japan was called...
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Pearl Harbor
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Sea and air battle fought in the Pacific where American forces defeated the Japanese forces.
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Battle of Midway
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Six month battle in which American and Australian troops defeated the Japanese.
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Battle of Guadalcanal
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These were built by the Nazi's. They were camps equipped with gas chambers for mass murder.
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Nazi extermination camps
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Trials of Nazi leaders charged with crimes against humanity
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held in Nuremberg
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The breaking down of armed forces is called...
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demilitarization
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The process of creating a government elected by the people is called...
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democratization
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After the war with Japan
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the U.S. occupied Japan under the command of General MacArthur. He helped do what that was very important for Japan?
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German people were called this... Hitler believed they were a "master race"
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Aryans
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The killing of millions of Jews and other groups considered inferior by Nazis.
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Holocaust
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On November 1938 Nazi mobs attacked Jews throughout Germany. It was a major step-up in the Nazi policy of persecuting the Jews.
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Kristallnacht
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Hitler ordered all Jews in Germany to live in certain parts of the cities called...
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ghettos
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Hitler got tired of waiting for the Jews to die in the ghettos so he came up with a plan to kill as many Jews as possible... this plan was called the...
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final solution
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The systematic killing of an entire people
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genocide
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Prisons used to house Jews and used the inmates as slave workers. Many died of starvation and diseases here...
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concentration camps
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In the end ____ million Jews were killed by the Nazis. Fewer than four million Jews survived.
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six
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