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Finals Vocabulary Flashcards

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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

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Battle which stopped Japan’s southern expansion, saved Australia and New Zealand

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Battle of Midway

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Surprise attack on Japanese navy turned tide of war

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Douglas MacArthur

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Commander of Allied ground forces in Pacific

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Island Hopping

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Strategy of taking islands not heavily fortified by Japanese

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Battle of Guadalcanal

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American victory in first Battle of Island Hopping campaign

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Aryans

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German master race

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Anti-Semitism

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Prejudice against the Jews

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Nuremberg Laws

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Laws depriving Jews of citizenship, jobs, and property

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Einsatzgruppen

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German death squads

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Kristallnacht

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“Night of Broken Glass”, attacks on Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues

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Wannsee Conference

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Held to determine the fate of the Jews

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Jewish Problem

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Hitler’s dilemma of what to do with the Jews in Germany and Europe

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Final Solution

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Hitler’s plan to eliminate the Jewish race

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Genocide

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Eliminating an entire race of people

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Subhumans

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Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, E. Europeans, physically/mentally disabled

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Eugenics/Racial Hygiene

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Efforts by Nazis to cleanse/purify Aryan race

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Auschwitz, Sobibor, Treblinka, Bergen Belsen, Dachau

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Nazi death camps

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Big Three

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Stalin, FDR, Churchill

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Battle of El Alamein

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British victory over Rommel in North Africa

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Operation Torch

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American forces land in North Africa

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Casablanca Conference

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Churchill and FDR decide to invade Italy and only accept unconditional surrender

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Operation Overlord

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Allied invasion of France

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D-Day

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June 6, 1944- invasion of France

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Battle of the Bulge

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Hitler’s counter attack against Allied forces

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V-E Day

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May 8th, 1945- victory in Europe

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Battle of Leyte Gulf

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Naval battle that destroyed Japanese naval forces

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Kamikaze

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Japanese suicide pilots

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Winston Churchill

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British leader

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Battle of Iwo Jima

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First battle on Japanese soil, 99% of Japanese soldiers killed

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Battle of Okinawa

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Last major battle in Pacific Theater, over 100,000 Japanese soldiers killed

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Manhattan Project

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Project to develop the atomic bomb

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Enola Gay

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Plane that carried atomic bombs

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Fat Man and Little Boy

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Fat man plutonium bomb, little boy atomic bomb

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Hiroshima

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August 6th, 1945- city destroyed by atomic bomb

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Battle of Stalingrad

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Soviet victory over Germany, their retreat begins

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Adolph Hitler

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Leader of the Germans

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Nagasaki

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August 9th, 1945- city destroyed by plutonium bomb

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V-J Day

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September 2nd, 1945

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Blitzkrieg

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Lightning War, using planes, tanks; and infantry in rapid attacks

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Maginot Line

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Heavily fortified area between Germany and France

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Isoruko Yamamoto

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Japanese naval strategy

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Ghettoes

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Jews relocated to ghettoes

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Hideki Tojo

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Political and military leader of Japan

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Enigma

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Code breaking device used by British

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Katsugo

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All Japanese citizens forced to be suicide fighters

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League of Nations

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Organization to promote peace

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Appeasement

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Giving in to an aggressor to avoid conflict

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Axis Powers

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(1936) Japan, Italy, and Germany

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Isolationism

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Avoiding political and military ties to other nations

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Third Reich

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Germany’s third Great Empire

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Sudetenland (1938)

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Area of Czech., German speaking

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The Munich Conference

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Germany, Italy, France, Britain need to discuss Sudetenland

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Neville Chamberlain

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British Prime Minister

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Non-Aggression Pact

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Agreement between Soviet Union and Germany not to attack one another

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Nuremberg Trials

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Trial of Nazi war criminals

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Allies

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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

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Japan human wave attacks

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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President and leader of America

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Holocaust

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Systematic genocide of Jews, as ordered by the Nazis

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X Day

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Decide to negate Japanese invasion

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