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Mein fuhrer
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hitler
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windtalkers
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Native Americans
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Erwin Rommel
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"Desert Fox"
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Capture of Berlin
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atomic bomb
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President Harry Truman
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FDR's death
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April 12, 1945
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Swastika
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Symbol of the Nazism
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Ration
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A limit on goods
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Date- Japanese Internment
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February 19, 1942
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FDR's lending arms policy
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Lend-Lease Act
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russia
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hitler violated the non-aggression pact, when he invaded which country
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Demilitarization
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disbanding the japanese armed forces
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Blitzkrieg
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"lightening war," involving fast moving airplanes and tanks, followed by massive infantry to overwhelm enemy (Poland); Poland fell, west annexed to Germany and east annexed to Russia
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V-j Day
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September 2, 1945, Japanese surrender
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Appeasement
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policy by which Czechoslovakia, Great Britain and France agreed to Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland in agreement for not taking any additional Czech territory.
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Kamikaze
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Japanese suicide pilots who loaded their planes with explosives and crashed them into American ships.
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manchuria
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what lands did japan conquer? (1931)
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Norman Rockwell
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A twentieth-century American artist and illustrator, known for his warm-hearted paintings of rural and small-town life in the united States. Many of his paintings appeared cover illustrations for the magazine The Saturday Evening Post.
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Joseph Stalin
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communist dictator for Soviet Union
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Holocaust
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the mass slaughter of civilians, especially Jews
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Reich
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Empire. Third Reich equals third empire of Germany
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Atlantic Charter
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Agreement signed by President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1941 outlining the two nations' war aims - would later be the basis for the United Nations
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Nationalism
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love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
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Neville Chamberlain
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British statesman who as Prime Minister pursued a policy of appeasement toward fascist Germany (1869-1940)
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Dictator
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Political leader who rules a country with absolute power, usually by force
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Iwo Jima
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Mt. Suribachi, Marines took island after tremendous losses
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Mein Kampf
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book written by Hitler in jail
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Lend-lease
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an arrangement made in 1941 whereby the U.S. supplied military equipment and armaments to the UK and its allies, originally as a loan in return for the use of British-owned military bases.
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Paul Von Hindenburg
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president of Germany that dies
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Adolf Hitler
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Politician wh believed that Germany had to overturn the Treaty of Versailles and combat communism; founded the "National Socialist German Workers' Party", or Nazism; took the title of "Der Fuhrer: promised to conquer eastern Europe and Russia; became Chancellor of Germany and turned it into a totalitarian state; took control of the economy and decreased unimployment; believed Jews were of a "less-superior, non-Aryan" race and waged war on them
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Munich Conference
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1938 conference at which European leaders attempted to appease Hitler by turning over the Sudetenland to him in exchange for promise that Germany would not expand Germany's territory any further.
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League of Nations
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an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations
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Japanese Imperialism
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The conquering and annexing of neighboring countries by Japan. Was a result of a growing population and limited natural resources in Japan at the time.
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Allied Powers
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Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia, and later the US
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Blizkrieg
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german word meaning lighting war; the swift attacks launched by germany in ww2, a massive attack on a country
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Kristallnacht
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AKA "Night of Broken Glass" NAZIs destroyed Jewish buildings with sledgehammers. Jews were beaten to death or sent to concentration camps.
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Pearl Harbor
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American naval base in Hawaii; attack by Japanese on this facility in December 1941 intended to crippled American fleet in the Pacific and caused entry of United States into WWII. However, the Japanese only sunk the battleships, which were the relics of a bygone era, and failed to find the carriers, which were out at sea and were much more important.
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why-pearl harbor
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started the actual war between america and japan WWIB we learned from that what intensity we had to fight at (A-Bomb intensity)
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Hiroshima/ Nagasaki
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nuclear attacks during World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States of America at the order of U.S. President Harry S. Truman
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Winston Churchill
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After the German offensive into France (June 1940) that trapped almost 400,000 British and French soldiers on the beaches of Dunkirk, __________ ________ organized a naval rescue
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Munit-Pact
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this was considered to be the epitome of appeasement, giving into Hitler, since Sudatenland is given to Hitler
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El Alamein
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A battle in Africa that stopped Rommel's advance
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nuremberg trials
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where leaders of Nazi Germany were prosecuted and punished
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Rhineland
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Name of area around french border that German troops had been forbidden since the Versailles treaty
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CONCENTRATION CAMPS
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german labor camps, used as prisions and instruments of death
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Utah Beach
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the second American landing site in France on D-Day
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USS Missouri
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Place where Allied and Japanese met for Japanese surrender
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Lend-Lease Act
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during World WarII the law that allowed the U.S. to sell arms and equipment to Britain
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Extermination Camp
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a Nazi facility where victims were killed on a mass industrialized scale and their bodies burned or buried in mass graves.
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Totalitarian
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a single party and leader who suppress all opposition and control all aspects of people's lives
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cash-and-carry
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Allies pay cash for U.S goods and carry them in their own ships
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Hiroshima
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City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II. (p. 797)
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Moscow
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place where Germans had to give up hope of conquering the Soviet Union
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aggression
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any warlike act by one country against another without just cause
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Star of David
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After 1941, all Jews in German-controlled areas had to wear a yellow star of david patch.
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D-Day
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June 6, 1944, the date of the allied invasion of France in western Europe
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why-allied powers
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helped each other out during the war WWIB they ended up winning the war
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english channel
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germans wanted to control it but they had to control the air space above britain first
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Stresa Front
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made up by Italy, France, and Britain to keep the status quo in Europe when Hitler decided to rearm Germany
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1943 1945
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from ________ to ________ is when the soviet liberations of camps and british and american liberation of camps
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battle of Iwo Jima
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lasted 6 weeks, several thousand marines, and more than 20,000 Japanese soldiers were killed, this battle is also notable for the famous photograph of US marines lifting the American flag to a standpoint
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Office of War Mobilization
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Federal agency formed to coordinate issues related to war production during World War II
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General MacArthur
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commander of the US forces in the Philippine Islands who directed the Allied occupation of Japan
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Office of Price Administration
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Administration: set limits on consumer prices and rent to prevent inflation.
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Josif Broz Tito
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led the World War II Yugoslav resistance movement against the Axis forces, the Yugoslav Partisans (1941-45). After the war, he was the authoritarian Prime Minister (1945-63) and later President (1953-80) of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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Yalta Conference
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A conference held in Yalta in February 1945 where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill planned the final stages of World War II and agreed to the territorial division of Europe
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the two fronts of the war -
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eastern adn western
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Name 4 characteristics of Germany between the wars
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Democratic government weakened, Depression, Extreme nationalism, National Socialism (Nazism)
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September 1, 1939
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The beginning of the German invasion of Poland and the start of WWII
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1967 war
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when Israel goes to war with Egypt (israel gained control of whole territory)
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Zoot Suit Riots
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A series of riots in which Mexican Americans were attacked by whites
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To acquire needed resources
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For what primary purpose did Japan invade Manchuria?
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Douglas MacArthur
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he was in command of Allied forces on the island during the time of Japanese invasion in December 1941.
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Lend- Lease Act
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..., allowed sales or loans of war materials to any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the U.S
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Battle of Midway
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This battle was the turning point for the Allies against Japan
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Fascist Party
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By 1922 it had gained enough power to force the king of Italy to declare Mussolini the head of the government
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Rosie the Riveter
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symbol of American women who went to work in factories during the war
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national self determination
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right of the people to decide how they should be governed
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liberation of concentration camps
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after the war was over, the Americans and USSR find the camps and free them
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One way that Native Americans served the US Military during World War II was as Navajo code talkers.
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True - Other people couldn't understand it.
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What did the Potsdam Declaration do?
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It gave an ultimatum to Japan, it accepted that the Soviet Union controlled Eastern Europe, and the partition (the division) of Germany.
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how did the united states government's actions influence civilian life during world war II?
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1. food was rationed
2. the power of the federal government grew
3. supplies were limited
4. us govt encouraged people to invest in war bonds
5. employment rate was low
6. women worked in the factories
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