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Ch.24-25 Flashcards

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“man of steel” took over after Lenin died, wanted to create a communist state

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Joseph Stalin

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Five years plan

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wanted to make the soviet union an industrial power, purged anyone who threatened his power, established a totalitarian state, individual has no rights

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established the facsist party, LL duce “the leader”

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Benito Mussolini

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Fascism

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stresses nationalism and puts the interest of the state in front of the individual

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stated the national socialist german workers party after WWI- NAZI, Der Fuhrer “the leader”

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Adolf Hitler

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6
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Mein Kampf

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hitlers book, set forth his basic beliefs

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Nicknames for Hitler

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Hitlers private army, set forth his basic beliefs

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Began the spanish civil war and revolted against the republic, with the help of hitler and mussolini he defeated lincoln

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Francisco Franco

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Outlawed arms sale or loans to belligerent nations

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Neutrality acts of 1935

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10
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German troops marches into (Blank) unopposed, hitler announced that its Anschluss (blank) was complete

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Austria and Anschluss

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After invading czech hitler invited french premier and british prime minister, hitler promised sudentenland would be his last territorial demand

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Munich Pact

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12
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Giving up principles to pacify an aggresor

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appeasment

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13
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poland

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hitlers next target, claimed german speaking population was being abused by the poles

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hitler signed this with stalin in order to avoid a two front war

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nonaggression pact

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15
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german airforce

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luftwaffe

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16
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lightning war, used to invade poland

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Blitzkrieg

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17
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defensive line built by the french to prevent german invasion

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Maginot line

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18
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Dunkirk

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German offensive trapped 400K britihs and french soldiers as they fled to the beaches of Dunkirk

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French general who fled to England to set up a government in exile

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Charles de Gaulle

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20
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Prime minister of great britain, made war plans with FDR

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Winston Churchill

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21
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the systematic murder of 6 million jews across europe

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Holocaust

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22
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Kristallnacht

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Night of Broken Glass

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23
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Hatred of Jews

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Anti-semitism

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24
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jews were stripped of their citizenship, jobs, and property

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Nuremberg Laws

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25
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Jews were forced to wear this

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Star of David

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26
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Allowed warring nations to buy arms from the US as long as they paid cash and transported them in their own ships

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Cash-and-Carry Policy

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FDR to the British, the president would lend or lease arms and other supplies to “any country whose defense was vital to the U.S.”

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Lend Lease act

28
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America first peacetime draft

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Selective training and service act

29
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Election of 1940

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FDr vs Wendell Willkie

30
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Gap chief of staff, launched invasion into china

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Hideki Tojo

31
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Pearl Harbor

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7:55 am sept 7, 1941

32
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WAC

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Womens army core

33
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Fought inflation by freezing wages, prices, and rent

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Office of price admin

34
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Decided which companies would convert from peacetime to wartime production, allocated materials to companies to produce certain goods

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War Production Board

35
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Hitler ordered submarine raids against allied shipping in the atlantic in order to starve britain, allies organized ships into convoys, aircraft patrolled the skies spotting submarines

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Battle of the Atlantic

36
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Germans tried to wipe out this major industrial city, germ any controlled most of the city but winer hit, no relief for german troops, germans surrender

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Battle of Stalingrad

37
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Invasion of north africa by the allies, general erwin rommel conquered most of North africa, “desert fox”

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Operation torch

38
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“Ike”, prepared operation overload, set up a fake army

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Gen D Einsenhower

39
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his Africa corps conquered most of North Africa

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Gen Erwin rommel

40
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they set up a fake army with fake radio transmissions, tanks, and troops across the English Channel from the French port of Calais

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Operation overlord

41
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D-Day date and meaning

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June 6, 1944. Three divisions parachuted behind enemy liens after midnight, followed by the largest land and sear operation in army history

42
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The five beachheads

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Utah, omaha, gold, juno, sword

43
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Election of 1944

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Dewey (R), FDR (Dem)

44
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Battle of the Bulge

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at Bastogne

45
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V-E Day date and meaning

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victory in europe day, may 8, 1945

46
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Death of FDR

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had a stroke

47
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Harry S. Truman

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takes office

48
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forced to leave, promised a return “I shall return”

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Gen Douglas MacArthur

49
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we were forced to surrender

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Bataan Death March

50
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Football player in Bataan death march

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Mario Tonellie

51
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led a raid on tokyo with 16 bomvers

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Col Jimmy Doolittle

52
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Battles of Coral sea and Midway

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Five day air battle was the first time maps were stopped and turned back, turning point in war

53
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The raising of the flag

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iwo jima

54
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raising of the flag

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Mount Suribachi

55
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manhattan project

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dropping the bomb

56
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hiroshima

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august 6, 1945

57
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enola gay

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plane flown by paul gibbets

58
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nagasaki

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august 9, 1945

59
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September 2, 1945

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Jap surrendered upon the uss missourir

60
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a temporary division of Germany in tow 4 zones: British, French, American, and soviet. 2. Stalin agreed to join the war against Japan

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Yalta conference

61
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stalin agreed to participate in a conference that would lead to the creation of the united nations

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nuremberg laws

62
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Paid for college and tech schools for troops, gave fed loans for buying homes, farms, or starting businesses

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GI Bill of Rights

63
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after pearl harbor there were rumors that jap americans were committing sabotage, jap were put in prison camps

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Internment camps

64
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Gap people born in the US of immigrant parents

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Nisei

65
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Korematsu vs United States

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camps were justified on the basis of military necessity, lost the case, congress appropiated 38 mil for reimbursement, also gave 20K to all japs sent to a camp, korematsu was awarded the presidential medal of freedom

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