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Fascism

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A militant movement that believed in a party dictatorship, extreme Nationalism, denying personal freedom, and strong rule over the weak

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Treaty of Versailles

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Treaty that ended war with Germany and the Allies

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Mussolini

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Italy’s fascist leader

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Mein Kampf

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Hitler’s book on his beliefs and goals for Germany

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Lebensraum

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Living space

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Neutrality Acts

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Neutral companies/countries that do not engage in war; cannot buy, sell, or trade with countries at war

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Lend Lease Act

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US can lend or lease military supplies, money to nations, vital to the US

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Port of Danzig

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Reason Hitler invaded Poland was to unite German citizens

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Sitzkrieg

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7 months of no fighting

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Dunkirk

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French seaport, 338,000 troops evacuated and sent back to Britain

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Battle of Britain

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Aircraft war over Britain

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Operation Sea Lion

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Hitler’s plan to invade Britain

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Luftwaffe

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German airforce

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Operation Barbarossa

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Hitler’s plan to invade the USSR

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Atlantic Charter

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FDR and Churchill met to write post-war Europe would have free trade and self-governance

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Emperor Hirohito

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Spiritual and godlike leader of Japan

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Bushido

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Japanese soldier code of conduct, death before surrender

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Pearl Harbor

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Home of America’s Pacific Fleet

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“A date which will live in infamy”

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FDR’s statement about attack on Pearl Harbor

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Japanese Internment

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Forced relocation of Japanese Americans to interior of US

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Asia for Asians

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Japanese strategy for taking over European colonial land

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Bataan Death March

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Forced march without food or water for 63 miles, up to %25 casualties

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“I shall return”

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MacArthur’s statement on his troops before leaving the Phillipines

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Doolittle’s Raid

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Aerial bombing of Japanese cities after Pearl Harbo

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Battle of the Coral Sea
Battle which stopped Japan's southern expansion, saved Australia and New Zealand
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Battle of Midway
Surprise attack on Japanese navy turned tide of war
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Douglas MacArthur
Commander of Allied ground forces in Pacific
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Island Hopping
Strategy of taking islands not heavily fortified by Japanese
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Battle of Guadalcanal
American victory in first Battle of Island Hopping campaign
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Aryans
German master race
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Anti-Semitism
Prejudice against the Jews
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Nuremberg Laws
Laws depriving Jews of citizenship, jobs, and property
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Einsatzgruppen
German death squads
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Kristallnacht
"Night of Broken Glass", attacks on Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues
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Wannsee Conference
Held to determine the fate of the Jews
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Jewish Problem
Hitler's dilemma of what to do with the Jews in Germany and Europe
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Final Solution
Hitler's plan to eliminate the Jewish race
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Genocide
Eliminating an entire race of people
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Subhumans
Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, E. Europeans, physically/mentally disabled
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Eugenics/Racial Hygiene
Efforts by Nazis to cleanse/purify Aryan race
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Auschwitz, Sobibor, Treblinka, Bergen Belsen, Dachau
Nazi death camps
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Big Three
Stalin, FDR, Churchill
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Battle of El Alamein
British victory over Rommel in North Africa
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Operation Torch
American forces land in North Africa
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Casablanca Conference
Churchill and FDR decide to invade Italy and only accept unconditional surrender
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Operation Overlord
Allied invasion of France
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D-Day
June 6, 1944- invasion of France
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Battle of the Bulge
Hitler's counter attack against Allied forces
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V-E Day
May 8th, 1945- victory in Europe
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Battle of Leyte Gulf
Naval battle that destroyed Japanese naval forces
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Kamikaze
Japanese suicide pilots
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Winston Churchill
British leader
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Battle of Iwo Jima
First battle on Japanese soil, 99% of Japanese soldiers killed
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Battle of Okinawa
Last major battle in Pacific Theater, over 100,000 Japanese soldiers killed
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Manhattan Project
Project to develop the atomic bomb
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Enola Gay
Plane that carried atomic bombs
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Fat Man and Little Boy
Fat man plutonium bomb, little boy atomic bomb
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Hiroshima
August 6th, 1945- city destroyed by atomic bomb
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Battle of Stalingrad
Soviet victory over Germany, their retreat begins
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Adolph Hitler
Leader of the Germans
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Nagasaki
August 9th, 1945- city destroyed by plutonium bomb
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V-J Day
September 2nd, 1945
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Blitzkrieg
Lightning War, using planes, tanks; and infantry in rapid attacks
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Maginot Line
Heavily fortified area between Germany and France
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Isoruko Yamamoto
Japanese naval strategy
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Ghettoes
Jews relocated to ghettoes
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Hideki Tojo
Political and military leader of Japan
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Enigma
Code breaking device used by British
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Katsugo
All Japanese citizens forced to be suicide fighters
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League of Nations
Organization to promote peace
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Appeasement
Giving in to an aggressor to avoid conflict
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Axis Powers
(1936) Japan, Italy, and Germany
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Isolationism
Avoiding political and military ties to other nations
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Third Reich
Germany's third Great Empire
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Sudetenland (1938)
Area of Czech., German speaking
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The Munich Conference
Germany, Italy, France, Britain need to discuss Sudetenland
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Neville Chamberlain
British Prime Minister
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Non-Aggression Pact
Agreement between Soviet Union and Germany not to attack one another
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Nuremberg Trials
Trial of Nazi war criminals
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Allies
The major Allies in World War 2 were Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, the United States, Canada, and Australia
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Banzai Attack
Japan human wave attacks
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
President and leader of America
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Holocaust
Systematic genocide of Jews, as ordered by the Nazis
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X Day
Decide to negate Japanese invasion

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