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FDR

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Franklin Delanor Roosevelt President of the United States at the beginning of WW2.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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General who directed the Allied invasion of Europe

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Harry Truman

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US President who made the decision to drop the Atom bomb on Japan

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Benito Mussolini

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Head of Italy during World War Two

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Joseph Stalin

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Leader of Russia during World War Two

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Winston Churchill

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Prime Minister of Britain during ww2.

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inflation

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Rise in prices combined with a decrease in the value of money.

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depression

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an economic period when people lose jobs

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fascism

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idea that the govt is deemed more important than the individual people

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Douglas MacArthur

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US Army commander in the Pacific during WW2.

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collectivization

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combining small farms into large factory-like farms.

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genocide

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killing of an entire group of people

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totalitarianism

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political leaders try to totally control the way citizens think and live

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appeasement

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meeting another govts demands to avoid war

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Concentration camps

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places where people are imprisoned because of their heritage, political beliefs, or religious views

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kristallnacht

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night of shattered glass; Nov 9, 1938. Nazis burned synagogues, jewish shops and killed jews.

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Battle of Britain

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air battle lasting for months before Hitler gave up on plans to invade Britain. It was Germany’s attempt to control England and was an air battle in London.

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Pearl Harbor

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Dec 7, 1941, Japan bombs US Naval base in Hawaii, destroying most of the US Pacific fleet.

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D Day

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June 6, 1944. The day that the allied invasion of France began.

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Nations that have fascists govts in the 1930s and 40s:

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Japan, Germany, Italy

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The African country taken over by Italy:

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Ethiopia

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Examples of how Hitler broke the treaty of Versailles:

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builds new airforce
increased size of the army
sent troops to Rhineland in 1936 (invaded France)

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Events that led to the outbreak of war in Europe:

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March 1938- Hitler annexes Austria
Sep 1938- Britain and France give into Hitler’s demands for Sudetenland
Mar 1939- Hitler takes control of all of Cz
Britain promises to defend Poland from Hitler
Sep 1 1939- Hitler invades Poland, beginning WW2 in Europe;
Britain and France declare war
Blitzkrieg starts (the beginning of the Battle of Britain)
Poland falls in a month
April 1940- Germany enters France
June 1940- Paris falls
Battle of Britain began

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the allies

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US, Britain, France, China, and Russia

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the axis powers

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Germany, Italy, and Japan

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tehran conference

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  • FDR, Churchill, Stalin meet to make plans for post-war Europe. They agreed to divide Germany to monitor after the war.
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Manhattan Project

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Program to build the 1st atomic bomb

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What cities were the bombs dropped on?(don’t have to know the dates)

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Hiroshima Aug 6, 1945

Nagasaki Aug 9, 1945

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The name of the US strategy for getting closer and closer to Japan

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Island Hopping

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Nuremburg trials

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special war crimes trials that tried all the Nazi leaders. Took place in Nuremburg, Germany

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Who/what did Hitler blame for Germany’s problems?

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inflation, the great depression, jews, France, the treaty of versailles

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What part of the govt took control of Japan in the early 1930s?

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Japan’s military

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Who signed a non-agression pact?

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Russia and Germany, specifically Hitler and Stalin

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the Holocaust

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genocide of the jewish people

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what happens to Hitler?

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commits suicide

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United Nations

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organization to investigate and propose settlements to international problems

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