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10- year Plan Stalin signed with hitler

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Nonaggression pact

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Lightning war

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Blitzkrieg

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French general who fled to London

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Charles de Gaulle

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British prime minister who declared that his nation would never stand alone

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Winston Churchill

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A series of battles between german and Britain air forces that lasted until May 10, 1941

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Battle of Britain

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Joint declaration that upheld free trade among nations and the right of people to choose their own government

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Atlantic Charter

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Argued that the US fleet was a “dagger pointed at our throat” and must be destroyed

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Isoroku Yamamoto

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Attack from the Japanese American naval base on December 7, 1941

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Pearl Harbor

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Battle that avenged Pearl Harbor and turned the tide of WWI

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Battle of Midway

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Commander of the allied forces in the Pacific

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Douglas MacArthur

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Battle for the control of the island that turned into a savage struggle

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Battle of Guadalcanal

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Germanic people’s

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Aryans

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Mass slaughter of civilians- mostly Jews

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Holocaust

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“night of living glass” November 9

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Kristallnacht

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Segregated Jewish areas

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Ghettos

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Hitlers program of action

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Final Solution

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Systematic killing of an entire people

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Genocide

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General that took the key port city of Tobruk in June 1492

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Erwin Rommel

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Who London sent to take control of British forces in North Africa

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Bernard Montgomery

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Led the force of 107,000 troops to launch operation torch

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Luftwaffe went on nightly bombing raids that set much the city of Stalingrad ablaze

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Battle of Stalingrad

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Invasion of Normandy/ greatest land and sea attack in history/ June 6, 1944

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D-day

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Germans tanks broke though eat American defenses along the 85-mike front of the Ardennes

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Battle of the Bulge

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Japanese suicide pilots

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Kamikaze

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Series of court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany after WWII , in which nazis leaders were tried for aggression, violations of the rules of war, and crimes against humanity

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Nuremberg Trials

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Disbanding the Japanese armed forces

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Demilitarization

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What event unleashed World War I?

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Hitlers invasion of Poland

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Why was capturing Egypt Suez Canal so important to the axis powers?

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It was key to reaching the oil fields of the Middle East

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What was Yamamoto objective at Pearl Harbor?

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To destroy the dagger pointed at Japan’s throat

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How did japan try to win support from other Asian countreis?

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They needed financial help/ they went and took over countries so they can show that they can be help

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Name two tactics hitler used to rid Germany of Jews before creating his final solution?

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Creating ghettos for the Jews to “live” in, launched Attacks on Jewish homes, and made the “others” wear labels so they stand out and they can be noticed more

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What tactics did hitler use during the final solution?

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Made the conditions in the camp even more terrible, established gas chambers to kill thousands of Jews at once, people would be beaten for “not working hard enough”

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Why were items rationed during the war?

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With factories turning out products for the war, the products for the citizens became scarce so they limited them to certain amounts

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What was operation overlord?

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invasion of Normandy was the greater land and sea attack in history

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Why did Europeans leave their homes following the war?

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Joined an army of displaced persons wandering Europe after war/ homes were destroyed/ people didn’t have earnings t buy food that was available

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What were two of the most important steps that MacArthur took in japan following the war?

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Began process of demilitarization and turned attention to democratization

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