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Aryan
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"superior race"
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Gestapo
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Secret police...the SS.
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barracks
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place where people sleep
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Jeep
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General Purpose vehicle (GP)
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isolationism
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avoiding involvement in other countries' affairs
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Winston Churchill
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Prime Minister of England.
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Appelplatz
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roll call area in concentration, labor, and death camps
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Nazism
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German form of Fascism, stressed nationalism over anything
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Tuskeegee Airmen
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All African-American fighting squadron that escorted American bombers on bombing runs.
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Prejudice
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attitude toward person or group formed without adequate information
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crematorium
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large furnace where bodies are burned to ashes.
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Third Reich
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Hitler abolished the Weimar Republic and totally disregarded the Treaty of Versailles and in its place created the _____.
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Royal Air Force (RAF)
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Great Britain's fighter planes.
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Soft Underbelly
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Instead of the Allies invading Nazi-held France, they attacked the German's in North Africa and then Italy.
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Doolittle's Riad - Colonel james Doolittle leads a raid to bomb Tokyo
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2nd- April 1942
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Josef Stalin
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dictator of the Soviet Union, turned the Soviet Union into a totalitarian state
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What was V-E Day?
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Victory in Europe, German surrender
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Great Depression
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Where Germany and many other countries economy failed.
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Ghetto
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place where Jews were forced to live during World War II.
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gas chamber
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also called "the showers"; place where victims of the Holocaust were killed with poisonous gas
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Zyklon-B
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gas used to kill Jews in gas chambers of Auschwitz
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What was V-J day?
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victory in Japan, end of WWII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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dictator
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A ruler who has complete power over a country
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How was Japan like Hitler?
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they believed that Japanese were better than other Asians and non-Asians
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Why was Hitler unable to conquer Britain?
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They never gave up
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Nazi Revolution
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In 1923, at a rally in Munich Beer Hall, Hitler proclaimed the _____.
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Where did the U.S. drop atomic bombs?
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in Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan
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Harry Truman
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VP under FDR until he died and then he became president.
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What people were targeted by the Nazis in WWII?
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Jews, Poles, Slavs, Gypsies, communists, and people with physical and mental disabilities
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What was the significance of the Battle of the Bulge?
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Germany was unprotected from the east and west sides
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