Chapter 24 Flashcards

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Good guys

A

Allies

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Battle of Midway

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Turning point in the fight against Japan

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2
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After the second a-bomb was dropped on __________, Japan surrendered.

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Nagasaki

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3
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Hirohito

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Emperor of Japan during WW1

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4
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Political system with extreme nationalism and blind loyalty to the leader

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Fascism

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5
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Leader of the third reach

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Hitler

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6
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The Baatan Death March

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65 mile trek to a Japanese prison camp in the the Philippines

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7
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Stalin

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Soviet leader who initially signed an agreement with Hitler but became a US ally

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8
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British, American, and Canadian troops stormed the beaches of ___________, France during D-Day

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Normandy

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9
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MacArthur

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Allied commander in the Pacific theater

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10
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Nazi Germany’s slaughter of the Jewish people

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Holocaust

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11
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Giving into aggression to avoid war

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Appeasement

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12
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State in which a single party controls the government and people’s lives

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Totalitarian

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13
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Wartime acts of cruelty beyond accepted rules

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War crime

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14
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Rationing

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Limiting the amount of things you can buy or use

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15
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Surviving Nazi leaders were out on trial at __________ in 1946

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Nuremberg

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16
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Supreme Allied Commander in Europe

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Eisenhower

17
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The taking of Okinawa and __________ __________ cost almost 20,000 Americs lives

A

Iwo jima

18
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Hitlers invasion of _________ in 1939 started WW1

A

Poland

19
Q

The attack on ________ Harbor brought America into WW1

A

Pearl

20
Q

First Japanese city to face the a-bomb

A

Hiroshima

21
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Mussolini

A

Fascist leader of Italy

22
Q

Japanese Americans on the West Coast were forced into ________ camps

A

Internment

23
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Rosie the river

A

Symbol of women in the war effort

24
Q

Suicide missions carried out by Japanese pilots

A

Kamikaze

25
Q

Japanese minister of War when Pearl Harbor was bombed

A

Tojo

26
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Roosevelt

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Elected to an unprecedented 4th term as president in 1944

27
Q

President Truman

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Made the decision to end the war with an a-bomb

28
Q

The _________ airman were an African American flight unit

A

Tuskegee

29
Q

Hitlers invasion of the _______ ________ was a huge tactical error

A

Soviet Union

30
Q

Allied invasion of Europe in 1944

A

D-Day

31
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Genocide

A

Attempt to wipe out a race of people

32
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Battle of the Buldge

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Last big Germany offense of WW2

33
Q

The U.S. supplied the Brits with the _____ act?

A

Lendlease

34
Q

______ code talkers helped keep our strategies a secret.

A

Navajo

35
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Anti-Semitism is hatred against

A

Jews

36
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Ethiopia

A

African country invaded by Italy

37
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Churchill

A

British prime minister who vowed never to surrender

38
Q

Bad guys

A

Axis

39
Q

Took six weeks for Germany to conquer ________.

A

France

40
Q

Hitler committed __________ in 1945 as the Allies closed in

A

Suicide