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british commander helped defeat germany in north africa

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Barnard motgomery

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accoding to roosvelt what date (month day and year) that would live in infamy

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december 7 1941

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“desert fox”

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Rommel

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natioalistic militaristic totalitarian movement

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Fascism

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country never invaded by german soliders

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Britian

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yielding to the demands of an aggressor in order to preserve peace

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Appeasement

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“lighting war”

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blitzkrieg

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massacre of millions of Jews and other that the Nazis considered “lesser peoples”

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holocaust

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Allied strategy for the defeat of Japan

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island hopping

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commander of the all american forces in the far east

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douglas MacArthur

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Japanese sucide pilot

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Kamikaze

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dictator of italy

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Bento Mussolini

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prime minister and military leader of Japan

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Hideki Tojo

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dicator of the soviet union

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Joseph Stalin

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british prime minster who practiced appeasement

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Neville chamberlain

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british prime minister during the WW2

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Winston churchill

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republican candidate for president in 1940

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Wendell Willkie

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supreme allied commander in Europe

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dwight D. Eisenhower

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U.S. president at the close of WW2

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Harry truman

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German dictator and head of the Nazi party

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Adolf hitler

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Island American forces captured as a final prepartion for the invasion of Japan

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Okihawa

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country Germany invaded in operation Barbarossa

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Russia

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Agreement between Churchill and Roosevelt listed their “common principles”

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Alantic character

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section of northern France did the Allied expeditionary Force land on D-day

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normady

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became prime minster after Winston Churchill

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clement Allee

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battle the Nazi’s counterattacked against the Allied invasion of Europe,almost stopping the advance into Germany

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battle of the buldge

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secret weapon brought the Pacific war to an end

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atomic bomb

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country Germany invaded beginning WW2

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poland

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city the first atomic bomb was dropped

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hiroshima

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Act empowered the president to supply any allied nation on almost any terms he wished

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land lease act

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last nation to fail to germany

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France

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american spokesperson for Isolationism

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charles Lindburgh

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country forced to give germany some of its territory as a result of the Minch confernce

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czexhoslovaki

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this critical battle was major turning point of the war. The US had broken the Japanese radio codes,and knew where the Japanese would attack

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battle of midway

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system for conserving vital goods for diversion to the war effort

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rationing

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island three miles from tokyo began the drive to defeat Japan

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Guadelcanol

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special segregated areas where the Jewish were forced to live in crowded unsanitary conditions.Often considered holding areas for the inhabitant’s ultimate transfer to the concerntration camps

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ghetto

38
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during the war the american government removed Japanese-American from their homes and relocated them,fearing they might be loyal to Japan

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interment camps

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which country did germany break a non-aggression pact

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Russia-sovout union

40
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Mein Kampf proposed

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end democracy in germany
and unit all germans
elimanate all Jews

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what was the main provision of neutrailty act of 1939

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It gave permission for warring nations to purchase wapons from the US on a cash bases

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what came first in WW2

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the germna occupation rhineland came first

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steps the US support the war from home

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rationing
recyling
creation of war production board

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3 factors kept the US out of WW2

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great depression
isoltionism
resiment of war debts

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what happened last WW2

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fall of france

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due to the war americanse saw increase in

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national debt
taxes
number of women working

47
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explain the arguments for and against the use of atomic weapons on Japan

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Traditional bombing blockade of the coast of Japan and help Russia could have led to a Japanese defeat. Themendous loss of life possibilities on both sides with an invasion of Japan.Japan and Germany both in the hunt for the bomb and plan to use against the US.

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who surrendered first the german surrender of the japanese surrender

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japanese

49
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where did the United States place thousands of Japanese Americans in without
charging them with any crimes?

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internment camps

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