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5 causes of WWII

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Economic Instability increases throughout the world

WWI peace settlement fails

Dictators gain control of Europe and Japan

Appeasement fails

Germany invaded Poland

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2
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What is the date of Pearl Harbor?

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December 7th, 1941

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3
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Hiroshima

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August 6th 1945

Little Boy

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4
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Nagasaki

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August 9th, 1945

Fat Man

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5
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When did he United Nations Form

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1945

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What three warning signs we missed at Pearl Harbor?

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Periscope sticking out of water

Planes on Radar

Shot at one of minisubs

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7
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Big three at Yalta conference

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Stallin

FDR

Churchill

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8
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2 responsibilities of United Nations

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Peace keeping

Human rights protection

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9
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What are the two beaches we attacked at Normandy?

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Utah and Omaha

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10
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What is the ship that is used as a memorial at Pearl Harbor

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Arizona

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11
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How did Hitler Die?

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Suicide

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12
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How many Jews were killed

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6 million

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13
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When is D-Day

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June 6th, 1944

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14
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Adolf Hitler

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Ruler of Germany

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15
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Benito Mussolini

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Ruler of Italy

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16
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Munich Conference

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1938 British and French let Germany takeover Czechoslovakia

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Neutrality Acts

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Forbid transportation or sales of arms to warring nations

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Appeasement

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Policy of giving into aggressor demands to avoid war

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Winston Churchill

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Prime Minister of Great Britain

20
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Selective Service Acts

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Establish 1st peaceful draft in us history

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Dwight Eisenhower

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Commander of allied forces in the invasion of Normandy

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Lend Lease

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Permitted ban of us war materials

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Harry Truman

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Made decision to use atomic bombs

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Holocaust

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Extermination of 6 million Jews

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Pearl Harbor
Brings us into war from japan. December 7th, 1941
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Axis Powers
Germany, Japan, Italy
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Yalta
Site of February 1945 meeting Churchill, Stallin, and FDR
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Stallin
Soviet Union Dictator 1930
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Hideki Tojo
Japan 1941 Prime Minister
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Hiroshima
1st atomic bomb dropped
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Battle of the bulge
Last German military offense in WWII
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Nagasaki
City destroyed by atomic bomb
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Auschwitz
Nazi Death Camp
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Stalingrad
Key battle Germans lost in Soviet Union
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What three Racial groups did he Nazis want to kill off?
Jews Russian POW’s Gypsies
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The Germans hid their true plans from citizens and inhabitants of the ghettos by claiming Jews were being...
Resettled in the east
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The total figure for the Jewish genocide including shooting and the camps, was between...
5.2 and 5.8 million
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Why did he Nazis begin to dismantle the camps?
To cover up their crimes
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What did Nazis have Jews send back home right before they died?
Postcards