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36 Cards in this Set
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lebensraum |
the desire for the German people to have more living space |
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Rhineland |
area between France and Germany where Hitler first marched to build a German empire |
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Neville Chamberlain |
British Prime Minister who believed he had achieved "peace in our time" by yielding to Hitler's expansionistic plans in Czechoslovakia |
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Blitzkrieg |
lightning war |
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Luftwaffe |
German air force |
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RAF |
British Royal Air Force |
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panzer |
German armored vehicle |
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kamikaze |
Japanese suicide pilots |
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Dunkirk |
port city where Allied troops were rescued by almost anything from Britain that could float; known as the "Miracle of Dunkirk" |
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Charles de Gaulle |
led the Free French Resistance Movement after Hitler conquered France |
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D-day |
Allied invasion of Normandy, France; June 6, 1944 |
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December 7, 1941 |
day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor |
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Operation Overlord |
code name for the Normandy invasion by the Allies |
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Battle of the Bulge |
the last offensive attack made by Germany |
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Churchill |
British prime minister during World War II; encouraged the British people with these words "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight in the fields . . . We shall never surrender." |
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Eisenhower |
supreme Allied commander in Europe |
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Franco |
leader of the Spanish Fascists |
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MacArthur |
American commander in the Pacific |
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Montgomery |
British commander at El Alamein |
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Quisling |
Norwegian traitor |
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Rommel |
German commander known as the "Desert Fox" |
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September 1, 1939 |
Day Germany swept into Poland officially beginning World War II |
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May 8, 1945 |
"V-E" Day; Allies declared victory in Europe on this day |
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September 2, 1945 |
"V-J" Day; end of the war in the Pacific with the Japanese |
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Why did Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek call a truce in their Chinese civil war? |
the Japanese invaded China |
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Why was the Spanish Civil War called a "dress rehearsal" for World War II? |
Germany and Italy tried out new weapons during the Spanish Civil War |
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The world was shocked in August 1939 when Hitler announced that Germany had signed a non-aggression pact with what country? |
the Soviet Union |
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Why did the Germans defeat France in 1940? |
because the French did not expect Hitler to come through the forests of the Ardennes |
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To whom was Winston Churchill referring when he said "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"? |
pilots of the royal Air Force |
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What was the role of the United States during the Battle of Britain? |
the U.S. offered Britain all types of aid short of declaring war |
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"A day that will live in infamy" is a quote by President Roosevelt referring to what? |
the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
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Why was the island-hopping technique successful in the Pacific? |
American troops simply bypassed Japanese troops on islands that would not make good air bases |
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Why was Iwo Jima important to the Americans? |
because it provided an excellent air base in close proximity to Japan |
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Who were the Navajo "Code Talkers" and what did they do? |
the United States used Navajo Indians speaking their own language as a code to send messages that the Japanese were never able to break |
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List four consequences of World War II. |
1. World War II proved to be the costliest war in history 2. It transformed the political, social, and economic situation in Europe 3. The war divided the world into two groups, each led by a "super power" 4. It led to the creation of the United Nations
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Manhattan Project |
Code name for the highly secretive project to build the first Atomic Bomb |
