ch. 16&17 Flashcards by Taylor Mastin | Brainscape

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Franco

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Spanish general

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Mussolini

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totalitarian in italy

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Hitler

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national socialist german workers party

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Churchill

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face of great britain

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Openheimer

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developed first atomic bomb

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Chamberlain

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prime minister of GB

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Randolph

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important African American labor leader

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Tojo

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prime minister of japan

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Stalin

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“man of steel”

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Bradley

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one of the three most famous generals

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Truman

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president of us at the end of the war

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McCarthy

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command of allied forces on island

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Nimitz

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commander of American naval forces

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Marshall

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army chief of staff

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DeGaulle

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fled to Britain after the fall of france

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internment

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???

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blitzkrieg

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lightning war

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D-Day

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famous allied invasion to liberate europe

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V-E Day

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nickname given to the day American beat europe

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Natzism

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german brand of facism

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Neutrality Acts

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outlawed arms sales or loans to nations at war

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War Production Board

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gov’t agency

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Atlantic Charter

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statement of goals

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Nagasaki

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bombed dropped in japan

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Hiroshima

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every building collapsed to dust

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Axis Powers

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Germany Italy & japan

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Genocide

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systematic killing

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Nuremburg Trials

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Nazi war criminals would be brought to justice

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OPA

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agency of federal gov’t

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Kristallnacht

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November 9, 1938

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Concentration Camps

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prison camps

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Allied Powers

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us, Britain, soviet

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Naval Batteries

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???

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Corps

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???

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totalitarian

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gov’t maintains complete control

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lend-lease act

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allowed leasing or lending arms

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GI

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federal gov’t assisted veterans

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nonaggression act

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not to attack each other

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rationing

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restricting the amount of food

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facism

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nationalism

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womens auxiliary army corps

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female volunteers to serve

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holocaust

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systematic murder of 11 million jews

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ghetto

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segregated neighborhood