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Pearl Harbor - HomeFront Flashcards

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Philippine Islands

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“American Territory”

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Bataan Death March

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70k Filipino prisoner forced to March 50 miles.

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Douglas Mac Arthur

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“I Shall Return”

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Col James Doolittle

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“Suicide mission”

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Admiral Chester Nimitz

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American Fleet Commander

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Battle of the Coral Sea

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USA fleet stops the Invasion of Australia

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Battle of Midway

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US defeats Japanese and stops the invasion of Hawaii.

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Battle of Guadalcanal

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6-month bloody battle to control the airfield

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Henrick Himmler

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Head of the SS

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SS (BLACK SHIRTS)

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In charge of the holocaust

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Final Solution

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Code Word

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Immigration

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make life so bad in Germany.

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Mobile Death Squads

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dug trenches and were machined gunned to death

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Einsatzgroupen

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Poland/Soviet Union

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Ghettos

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Jews rounded up on the cities closed behind barbed wire and forced to work with little food.

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Death Camps/Gas Chambers

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Jews gassed in showers.

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Peak

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Up to 15,000 per day KILLED

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Corrie ten Boom

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Dutch Christians who hid Jews.

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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German protestant pastor who gave his life (cast of discipleship)

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Oskar Schindler

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businessman who gave his life saving Jews.

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Anne Frank

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Jewish girl who wrote a diary “Diary of Anne Frank”

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POW camps

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Held prisoner of war mostly in Germany

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Work Camps

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used slave labor to help the German war effort.

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Death Camps

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used to exterminate people.

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Geneva Convention

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Rules of War

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Homefront

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the activities of the civilians in a nation at war

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Total War

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everything involved in war effort in the same way.

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Battle of Pearl Harbor

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USA naval base in the pacific

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3 Targets

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Aircraft Carrier (Flat tops) Battle ships and airfields

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