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1
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Stalin

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Took over Russia in 1922, communist, “man of steel”

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2
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Treaty of Versailles

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Ended WW1, Blamed Germany

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3
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Paris pact

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Agreement by country saying they would solve differences without going to war

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4
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Totalitarian government

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Wanted to have complete control of citizens; one party would have complete control and ban other parties

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5
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Nationalism

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Loyalty to ones country

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6
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Expansionism

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Wanting to invade for power and more land

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7
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Mussolini

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Took over Italy in 1922; facism

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Fascism

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Strong centralized gov; dominant party in Italy at that time

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Hitler

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Germany; “fuhrer” or leader, nazism, wrote “mein kampf” or my struggle

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10
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Hirohito

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Emperor of Japan, served for 62 years,

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11
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Who was the prime minister of Japan

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Hideki Tojo

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12
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When did Japan invade Manchuria

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1931

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13
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When did Italy invade Ethiopia

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1975

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14
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When did Germany invade Rhineland

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1936

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15
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Why did Germany invade Rhineland

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It was an Area of Germany that got taken away in World War I, and butler wanted it back

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16
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Spains civil war

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1936-1939; loyalists (loyal to the current gov) vs fascists

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17
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Who was the leader of the fascists in Spain?

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Francisco Franco

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18
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What was the U.S’s response to ww2

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Isolationism

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19
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Why did the US choose isolationism in the beginning of WW2

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WW1, Depression, debts owed to the us by allies

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20
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Nye committee

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Created to be able to look at other countries news

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21
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Neutrality act

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Banned a sell of weapons to nations were at war

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22
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Ludlow amendment

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1937, gave them American people the right to go on whether or not to go to war

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23
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Where was Sudetenland

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Czechoslovakia

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24
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Neville chamberlain

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Prime minister in Great Britain

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25
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Danzig corridor

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Strip of land in Poland that separated Germany

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Nonaggression pact

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Soviet Union and Germany agreed not to attack each other and they were both going to invade Poland

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27
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When did Germany invade Poland

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September 1, 1939

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28
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Blitzkrieg

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“Lightning war”, heavy swift fighting w/ tanks

29
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When did Great Britain and France declare war on Germany

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September 3, 1939

30
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Maginot line

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We’re British and French troops got ready

31
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Was evacuation strategy of Dunkirk

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Operation dynamo

32
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Winston Churchill

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New G B prime minister, he wanted to fight hitler

33
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Eagle squadron

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Volunteer American pilots who joined the great Britain airport to help out with the war

34
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Holocaust

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Nazi Elimination of 6 million Jews

35
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Genocide

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Systematic destruction of a people based on religion race ethnicity nationality and sexual preference on an unmatched scale

36
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Who was exterminated in the holocaust

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Gypsies Slavs homosexuals and disabled

37
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How many people died in the extermination process of the holocaust

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9 to 10 million people

38
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What was a Slav

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A person from Poland Belarus or the Ukraine

39
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Nürnberg laws

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Laws that stripped away rights to Jews citizenship in Germany

40
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Kristallnact

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Night of the broken glass, destroyed everything to do with Jews in Germany

41
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Gestapo

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Germany secret police, brutal

42
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Einsatzgruppen

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Mobile killing squads, followed the German army into conquered lands and killed the Jews

43
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SS

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Protection squad, elite personnel in the army

44
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Final solution

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Extermination of Jews through gas

45
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Wannsee conference

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Nazis meet to plan to exterminate Jews with gas

46
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Cheimno

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Vans designed to pump fumes into the van to kill Jews

47
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Concentration camp

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Forced slave labor

48
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Extermination camp

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Killed only

49
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Joseph mengele

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Preferred medical experience

50
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Nürnberg trials

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Nazi war criminals put on trial

51
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Axis powers

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Germany Italy and Japan

52
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Allies

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Britain France Russia and the US

53
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Selective service and training act 1940

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Nations first peacetime draft

54
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Election of 1940

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Roosevelt defeats windell Wilke for his third term

55
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Lend lease act1941

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US could lend weapons to countries who needed it at war

56
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Atlantic charter

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FDR and Churchhill had a secret talk for the plan to conduct operations for world war two

57
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Reuben James

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US naval to store hit by a German U-boat, killed 100 sailors

58
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Export control act

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Give US the right to restrict materials sold to countries such as oil to Japan

59
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Yamamoto

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Admiral of Japanese Navy that would plan attack at Pearl Harbor

60
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What was the Japanese route for Pearl Harbor

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They went north so they could be detected

61
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US codebreakers

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People try to break Japanese cut before Pearl Harbor

62
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Husband kimmel

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Head of Navy at Pearl Harbor

63
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Walter short

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Head of army at pearl harbor

64
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War warning

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Aggressive move by Japan expected in the next few days

65
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USS ward

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Blew up Japanese submarine at entrance to Pearl Harbor

66
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Where did the first wave of bombs hit at Pearl Harbor

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Battleship row

67
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Where did the second wave of bombs hit at Pearl Harbor

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The airfields

68
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When did the attack of Pearl Harbor occur

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December 7, 1941

69
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Jeanette Rankin

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Only congressman to go against going to war

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