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Chapter 16 And 17 Study Guide Flashcards

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Battle of Stalingrad

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The turning point of the war in Europe. Between the Germans and Soviet Union

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Sudetenland

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The outer border of Czechoslovakia and hurled promised he would make it his last territorial gain

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Rationing

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A country effort. Rationed: has, sugar, electricity, etc.

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First people to come upon the death camps

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Soviet soldiers

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Battle of coral sea

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Stopped Japan from attacking Australia

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Kristallnact— where did Jews go after?

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Ghettos/ fled

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What countries hurled targeted first

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Austria, Czechoslovakia

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Agriculture during ww2

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It rose and flourished

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Increase in marriage

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300%

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Lend-lease act

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U.s was willing to send arms to the allies

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Roosevelt’s fear of going to war

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He didn’t want to loose support

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Appeasement

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Giving into an aggressor as yo not cause conflict

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Germany and the soviet unions nonaggression pact

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They agreed to not invade each other

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Battle of the bulge

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Hitlers last attempt to fight back

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War plan priorities

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The u. S will fight Germany and Italy first, then move on to fight japan

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Reasons for invading Austria and Czechoslovakia

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There were Germans being “abused”

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How scientists mobilized for war

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Radar, sonar, atomic bomb, pesticides, penicillin

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Yale’s conference

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A meeting between the allies. They were discussing what to do with Germany after the war ended. Created United Nations

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The phony war

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The Germans and French sat and waited for each other to invade each other

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Number of Jews killed in the holocaust

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6 million

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How women participated in ww2

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Nurses, took men’s jobs, helped on the homefront

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Manhattan project

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Code name for atomic bomb research

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Nuremberg trials

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Tried nazis for war crimes. Established self responsibility even during wartime

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GI bill

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Said if people enlisted, the government would pay for their collage and housing afterwards

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Sonar and radar

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New tech advances

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Purpose of the office of price administration

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Used to fight inflation

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Joseph stalin

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Communist leader in Russia

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Benito Mussolini

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Fascist leader in Italy

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Adolf hitler

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Dictator in Germany

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Winston Churchill

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The British prime minister

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FDR

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U. S. President

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Final solution

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Hitler decided to implement death camps to exterminate Jews

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Genocide

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The intentional mass extermination of a group, more specifically because of race, religion, etc

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Holocaust

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The mass extermination of Jews during ww2

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Nuremberg laws

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Determined who was a Jew

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Neutrality acts

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Said US won’t give weapons to warring countries

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Cash and carry

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That countries will have to pay cash for weapons and provide their own transportation

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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The 2 Japanese cities bombed by the atomic bomb

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Blitzkrieg

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The lightening war, Germany’s new form of fighting

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War production board

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Determined which factories will be consumer and which will be wartime producers

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Tuskegee airmen

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All black air squadron that were hero’s in combat

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D-day

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3 million Allies soldiers, the biggest military invasions. Invaded Normandy. The goal was to liberate France

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Battle of midway

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The turning point of the war in the pacific

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Kamikaze

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The way the japs would fight. It was basically suicide fighting

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Executive order 9066

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Ordered the Japanese Americans to go to internment camps

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Zoot -suit

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The Mexican Americans way of rebelling by wearing pleated pants and a long coat

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Island hopping

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America went from island to island liberating them from the Japanese

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