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Chapter 17 Flashcards

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Blitzkrieg

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Lightning war

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Appeasement

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Policy of giving in to an agressors demands in order to keep the peace

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Cold war

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State of tension and hostility between nations aligned with the us on 1 side and the soviet union on the other that rarely led to direct armed conflict

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Pacifism

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Opposition to all war

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Genocide

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Deliberate attempt to destroy an entire religious or ethnic group

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Collaborator

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Cooperation with the enemy against ones country

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Winston churchhill

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Prime minister of britain

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Francisco franco

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General

Led a revolt in spain

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Dweight eisenhower

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American general in morocco and algeria

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Haile selassie

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King of ethiopia

Asked un for help after axis tried invading ethiopia

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Dunkirk

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Allies rescued soldiers from the beach

German air attacks going on

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Al alamein

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Egyptian city

Battle

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Guernica

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Painting by pablo picasso

Because of the bombing of guernica

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Hiroshima

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Americans bombed this Japanese city

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Pearl harbor

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Japan bombed pearl harbor in hawaii on a sunday in december

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Spanish civil war

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Republicans vs nationalists

Hitler got involved

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Operation barbarossa

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Wanted to take leningrad

Led to germanys downfall

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D day

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The day france was invaded

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Midway island

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Island in the pacific

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Holocaust

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Murder of jews and other ethnic groups

Done by the nazis

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Battle of midway

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Major turning point of the war in the pacific

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