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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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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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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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Giving up principles to pacify an aggresor

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appeasment

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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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german airforce

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luftwaffe

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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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jews were stripped of their citizenship, jobs, and property

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Nuremberg Laws

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Jews were forced to wear this
Star of David
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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
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."
Lend Lease act
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America first peacetime draft
Selective training and service act
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Election of 1940
FDr vs Wendell Willkie
30
Gap chief of staff, launched invasion into china
Hideki Tojo
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Pearl Harbor
7:55 am sept 7, 1941
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WAC
Womens army core
33
Fought inflation by freezing wages, prices, and rent
Office of price admin
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Decided which companies would convert from peacetime to wartime production, allocated materials to companies to produce certain goods
War Production Board
35
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
Battle of the Atlantic
36
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
Battle of Stalingrad
37
Invasion of north africa by the allies, general erwin rommel conquered most of North africa, "desert fox"
Operation torch
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"Ike", prepared operation overload, set up a fake army
Gen D Einsenhower
39
his Africa corps conquered most of North Africa
Gen Erwin rommel
40
they set up a fake army with fake radio transmissions, tanks, and troops across the English Channel from the French port of Calais
Operation overlord
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D-Day date and meaning
June 6, 1944. Three divisions parachuted behind enemy liens after midnight, followed by the largest land and sear operation in army history
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The five beachheads
Utah, omaha, gold, juno, sword
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Election of 1944
Dewey (R), FDR (Dem)
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Battle of the Bulge
at Bastogne
45
V-E Day date and meaning
victory in europe day, may 8, 1945
46
Death of FDR
had a stroke
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Harry S. Truman
takes office
48
forced to leave, promised a return "I shall return"
Gen Douglas MacArthur
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we were forced to surrender
Bataan Death March
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Football player in Bataan death march
Mario Tonellie
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led a raid on tokyo with 16 bomvers
Col Jimmy Doolittle
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Battles of Coral sea and Midway
Five day air battle was the first time maps were stopped and turned back, turning point in war
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The raising of the flag
iwo jima
54
raising of the flag
Mount Suribachi
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manhattan project
dropping the bomb
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hiroshima
august 6, 1945
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enola gay
plane flown by paul gibbets
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nagasaki
august 9, 1945
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September 2, 1945
Jap surrendered upon the uss missourir
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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
Yalta conference
61
stalin agreed to participate in a conference that would lead to the creation of the united nations
nuremberg laws
62
Paid for college and tech schools for troops, gave fed loans for buying homes, farms, or starting businesses
GI Bill of Rights
63
after pearl harbor there were rumors that jap americans were committing sabotage, jap were put in prison camps
Internment camps
64
Gap people born in the US of immigrant parents
Nisei
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Korematsu vs United States
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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