Ch.12 World War 2 Flashcards

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Dictator

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Leaders who control their nations by force

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Totalitarian

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Leaders crush all opposition and try to total control all areas of society

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Fascism

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Government characterized by militarism and racism

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Appeasement

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Avoiding war by accepting demand

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Anti-semitism

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Hatred of Jews

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Benito Mussolini

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Italian dictator who won power by saying that Italy won little in the treaty of Versailles

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Joseph Stalin

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Was a murderous communist leader of the Soviet Union

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Munich conference

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British and French leaders agreed to give Sudetenland to Germany if they halted expansion

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Adolf Hitler

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Was the leader of the Nazi party who practiced anti-semitism

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Rhineland

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The treaty of Versailles had made it a neutral area

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Austria

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Hitler insisted that German speaking Austria should be united with Germany

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Sudetenland

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Hotter claimed that they were being mistreated so they should be part of Germany

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Invasion of Poland

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Germany attacked Poland swiftly with bombs and machine guns also they had thousands of soldiers

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American Neutrality

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When Roosevelt won he openly supported the allies and lend-lease act to lend weapons to the allies

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Blizkrieg

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Lightning war

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Allied powers

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Great Britain and France

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Axis powers

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Germany,Italy, and Japan

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Winston Churchill

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Helped boost moral during the Battle of Britain

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Pearl Harbor

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When Japan attacked the Hawaiian military base

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Battle of Britain

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When Germany bombed Britain for 8 months

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Interment camps

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After Pearl Harbor Japanese-Americans were moved to harsh, uncomfortable, and overcrowded camps

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Tuskegee airmen

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African American fighter pilot shot down over 200 enemy planes

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Navajo Code Talkers

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Navajo native Americans spoke a language that only they knew so the US used it as a code that could not be deciphered

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Genocide

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Wiping out an entire group of people

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Holocaust
When hitler and the Nazis killed 6 million Jews and others like people with disabilities or are homosexual
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Concentration camps
Large prisons used to hold people for political reasons
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Dwight D Eisenhower
American general who drove Germany out of North Africa
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George Patton
American general who lead the troops during the invasion of Italy
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D-Day
The invasion to liberate Paris that went wrong because Germany had the upper hand
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Harry Truman
After Roosevelt died suddenly he vacate president
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Invasion of Italy
As the allies advanced the Italians overthrew Benito Mussolini and surrendered and took Rome the capital of Italy
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Invasion of North Africa
American forces joined British forces in Africa advanced west and drove Germany out of Africa
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The final solution
When the Nazis destroyed the evidence of the Holocaust by building death camps and killing as many Jews as possible
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Island hopping
Attacking and capturing key islands
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Douglas MacArthur
American general who was forced to retreat in the Philippines
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Bataan Death March
Japanese forced their Batam prisoners to march to a prison camp and many died along the way
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Battle of midway
The US navy destroyed four Japanese aircraft carriers and hundreds of planes
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The manhattan project
A top secret atomic bomb that Franklin Roosevelt built but Harry Truman dropped
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Nagasaki and Hiroshima
The US dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima between 80,000 and 120,000 people died 3 days later a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki between 35,000 and 74,000 people died