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Road to WW2 vocab Flashcards

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Adolf Hitlers mistress whom he got married then she unalived herself

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Eva Braun

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Prime minister of Great Britain

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Winston Churchill

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received the medal of honor for his raid over tokyo with 80 volunteers

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James Doolittle

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Commander of the European of theater

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Dwight Eisenhower

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French gov in exile

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Charles de Gaulle

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Head of the SS (Black Shirts)

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Heinrich Himmler

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Japanese military leader

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Hideki Tojo

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Japanese Emperor

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Hirohito

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US commander of the pacific theater

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Douglas MacArthur

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chief scientist of the atomic bomb and the Manhattan project

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Robert Oppenheimer

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German general Desert Fox

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Erwin Rommel

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President of the US during WW2

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Dictator of the soviet union

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Joseph Stalin

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American aircraft pilot/ flew the Enola gay

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Paul Tibbets Jr.

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President after Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Harry S. Truman

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Nazi leader and dictator of Germany

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Adolf Hitler

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German protestant pastor who gave his life

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Dutch Christian who hid Jew

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Corrie Ten Boom

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Jewish girl who wrote a diary

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Anne Frank

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Admiral of the japanese navy

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Isoruku Yamamoto

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21
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Most famous prison death camp

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Auschwits

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London attacked for 57 consecutive Day/Nights

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Blitz

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German style of warfare

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Blitzkrieg

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japanese warriors fight to the death or commit suicide- Never surrender

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Bushito

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group of ships sailing together for protection

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Convoy

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Amphibious operation that miraculously rescued & the british/ french armies

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Dunkirk

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(B-29 Bomber) plane that dropped the atomic “little boy” bomb on hiroshima

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Enola Gay

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Mobile death squads - dug trenches and were machined gunned to death

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Eizengruppen

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Japanese city the was destroyed by the atomic bomb

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Hiroshima

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The systematic mass slaughter of the jews and other

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Holocaust

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HJ 13-18 year olds/ all were brainwashed with the nazi’s propaganda in school

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Hitler youth

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purpose was to get close enough to launch bombing attacks on japan

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Island Hopping

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“Night of the broken glass” A program (organized massacre) against the german jewish community in germany

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Kristallnacht

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Japanese suicide planes used in desperation

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Kamikaze

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breeding program between Aryan woman and ss officers/ goal was to create “racially pure” people

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Lebensraum

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The USA could lend or lease arms or other supplies to any country

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Land-Lease Program

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City with major anti Jewish laws in Germany

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Nuremburg

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secret atomic bomb program

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Manhattan Project

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Japanese americans

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Nisei

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“code talkers”- secret US code

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Navaho

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US naval battle base in the pacific (hawaii)

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Pearl Harbor

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turning tide of the battle of britain

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Radar

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“Lifeline” of Great Britain between USA and great Britain/ longest continuous battle of WW2

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Battle of Atlantic

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German kids who were into jazz music

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Swing Kids

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Nazi empire

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Third Reich

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the first German attack to take great Britain but Adolf Hitler lost

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Battle of Britain

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Dec. 1944 “Great surprise” Hitler lost the offensive of the war. Bought an end to the war in Europe sooner!

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The Bulge

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Deliverance day/ Largest amphibious attack in history

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D-Day

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key allied victory in africa

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El Alamein

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6 month bloody battle to control airfield and the first major island taken for the japs

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Guadalcanal

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USA takes the first of the Japanese home islands/ 5 men raise the US flag on mt. suribachi

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Iwo Jima

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Japanese island are destroyed and the Philippine islands are liberated

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Leyte Gulf

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US defeats the Japanese and stops their planned invasion of Hawaii/ west coast of US

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Midway

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Fought for control over the Russian oil fields

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Stalingrad

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the country japan first targeted

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China

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Jewish homeland

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Israel

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the country that initiated WWII / The aggressors

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Germany

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“rise of militarism” ( glorification of war) “Militarist” ran government

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Japan

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major allied power in Europe

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Great Britain

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fascist axis power

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Italy

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where WWII officially started when this country was invaded by germany

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Poland

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communist allied power

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Soviet Union

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allied power that was known as arsenal of democracy

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USA

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