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What were the two main causes of World War II?

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  1. Mistreatment of Germany in the Versailles treaty
  2. The rise of dictators in Europe
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The Great Depression began with what event?

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Stock Market crash on “Black Tuesday” - Oct 29 1929

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Name three extreme forms of government that arose in Europe before or after the Great Depression.

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  1. Communism
  2. Nazism
  3. Fascism
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What was the main factor that allowed these governments to come to power?

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The promise of prosperity and getting out of the depression.

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What 2 promises did Adolf Hitler give to the German people if they elected him?

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  1. Promises to get out of the depression.
  2. Promises revenge for German mistreatment in the Versailles Treaty.
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Name three beliefs these extreme governments shared in common.

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  1. Demanded fanatic loyalty to leader/country
  2. Totalitarian/police state
  3. Racism- superiority of their race.
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List six groups that the Nazis considered to be “undesirables”. and needed to be cleansed from Germany.

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  1. Jews
  2. Jehovah Witnesses
  3. Slavic people
  4. Disabled people
  5. Homosexuals
  6. Negros
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What was the League of Nations response to the aggressive actions of Japan, Italy, and Germany?

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They do nothing to stop them because of the fear of another world war.

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What event was used by Hitler as a “dress rehearsal for World War II?

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The Spanish Civil War

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Why did Great Britain and France “appease” or give in to Hitler’s demands at the Munich Pact?

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To avoid war

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Why were most German Jews refused asylum (entry)into countries during the 1930’s?

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Because the Great Depression was going on

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The ______ were a brainwashed group of German young people who were fanatically loyal to Adolf Hitler.

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HJ

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Whose country did Adolf Hitler consider a weak, “mongrel race”?

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America

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What country other than Germany was the only one that Hitler respected? Why did he respect this country?

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Great Britain because it had a great empire even though it is a small Island country

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Name the four major Allied Powers in World War II.

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  1. Great Britain
  2. France
  3. Soviet Union
  4. USA
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Name the three major Axis Powers in WWII.

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  1. Germany
  2. Japan
  3. Italy
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Was the code name for the invasion of the Soviet Union

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Operation Barbarossa

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Was the code name for D-Day, The Battle of Normandy

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Operation Overlord

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What were the three major results of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?

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  1. USA enters WWII
  2. Unites the American people
  3. Internment Camps
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What reason did the US government give for putting Japanese-Americans into internment camps? What was the REAL REASON?

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National Security, but the real reason was Fear and Prejudice

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Means hatred of the Jews

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Antisemitism

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What were the Jews forced to wear to identify themselves to others?

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The Star of David

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Nazis political ideology was summarized in Adolf Hitler’s book

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Mein Kampf

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The_____ was a demilitarized “buffer zone” between Germany and France that was occupied by Hitler in 1936

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Rhineland

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What was the importance of the Battle of Britain

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Boosted morale and showed that Hitler was not unstoppable

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The________ Airmen were the first black servicemen to serve as military pilots in World War II

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Tuskegee Airmen

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What were the three major results of the Japanese attack on pearl Harbor?

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  1. USA enters WWII
  2. Unites the American people
  3. Internment Camps
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What reasons did the US government give for putting Japanese-Americans into internment camps? What was the REAL REASON?

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Reason given was for national security but the real reason was fear and prejudice

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What 4 things did Hitler do in his “Final Solution” to rid Europe of the Jewish nation?

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  1. Immigration - make life hard for Jews so they leave.
  2. Mobile Death Squad - make Jews dig trenches and kill them
  3. Ghettos - Isolate and work with little food
  4. Death Camps/Gas Chambers
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During the________, 16,000 Americans and Filipinos soldiers died on their way to a POW camp

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Bataan Death March

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Name and give a brief description of the three different types of German concentration camps used in WWII

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  1. POW Camps - most survived
  2. Work Camps - worked to death
  3. Death Camps - to exterminate people
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Why did the United States decide to use the atomic bomb on Japan rather than to invade the country.

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Because it would save lives compared to a n invasion

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List the results of World War II (6)

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  1. Approx. 70 million death
  2. Europe in ruins - 30 million refugees
  3. Cold war - US vs Soviet Union
  4. Great Britain loses its empire
  5. Nuclear Age
  6. Creation of Israel
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Eva Braun

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Hitler’s mistress that became his wife

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35
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Winston Churchill

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Prime Minister of Great Britain

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James Doolittle

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Commander of the Doolittle Raid

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Dwight Eisenhower

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Commander of the European Theatre

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Charles de Gaulle

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Led French government in exile

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Heinrich Himmler

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Head of SS and in charge of the Holocaust

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Hideki Tojo

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Militarist leader of Japan

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Hirohito

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Japanese emperor

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Douglas MacArthur

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Commander of the Pacific theatre

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Robert Oppenheimer

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Chief scientist that worked on the Manhattan Project

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Erwin Rommel

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German General known as the “Desert Fox”

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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US president during most of WWII

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Joseph Stalin

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Dictator of the Soviet Union during World War II

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Paul Tibbets Jr.

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Piloted the “Enola Gay” and dropped the atomic bomb “Little Boy” on Hiroshima

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Harry Truman

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President of USA after FDR dies

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Adolf Hitler

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Leader of Nazi Germany

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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German pastor that wrote “Cost of Discipleship”; helped Jews

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Corrie Ten Boom

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Dutch Christian that wrote “The Hiding Place”; hid Jews

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Anne Frank

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Jewish girl that wrote the “Diary of Anne Frank”

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Isoroku Yamamoto

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Admiral of the Japanese Navy who plans the Pearl Harbor attack

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Auschwitz

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Most infamous death camp in the Holocaust

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Blitz

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Attack on London for 57 days and nights by the Germans

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Blitzkrieg

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Lightning Warfare

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Bushido

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Japanese code that says to fight to the death or commit suicide; never surrender

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Convoy

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Group of ships sailing together for protection

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Dunkirk

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A miraculous rescue of British and French armies

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Enola Gay

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Plane that dropped the atomic bomb “Little Boy” on Hiroshima

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Einsatzgruppen

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Mobile death squads

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Hiroshima

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The first Japanese city to be bombed with an atomic bomb: Little Boy

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Holocaust

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The systemic mass slaughter of Jews and other undesirable groups

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Hitler Youth

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German young people that are brainwashed into being fanatically loyal to Hitler and the Nazi party

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Island Hopping

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America’s strategy against Japan to get closer to them

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Kamikaze

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Japanese suicide planes

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Kristallnacht

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“Night of Broken Glass”; organized massacre against Jews in Germany

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Lebensruam

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Living space

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Lend Lease program

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Lend or lease arms to any country vital to the defense of the USA.

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Manhattan Project

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secret project of developing an atomic bomb

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Navaho

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USA secret code

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Nisei

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Japanese-Americans

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Nuremberg Laws

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Anti-Jewish laws

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Pearl Harbor

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Longest American naval bases

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Radar

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This turned the tide of the Battle of Britain

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Swing Kids

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German kids that wereinto American jazz music

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Third Reich

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Nazi Germany

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Atlantic

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The longest/continuous and pivotal battle of WWII because it was the suplly line of Great Britain from America

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Britain

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Battle in which Hitler plans to invade Great Britain

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The Bulges

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The great surprise; Hitler’s last offensive of the war

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D-Day

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Battle of Normandy; largest amphibious attack in history

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El Alamein

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Key Allied victory in Africa because of oil

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Guadalcanal

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USA’s starting point to attack Japan; first island taken

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Iwo Jima

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Battle in which 5 US soldiers raise the US flag on Mount Suribachi

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Leyte Gulf

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Battle in which the Japanese navy was destroyed

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Midway

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The battle where the US stops the invasion of Hawaii/coast of US by the Japanese

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Stalingrad

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The battle that fought for control of the Russian oil fields

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China

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The country that Japan first targeted

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Israel

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Became a country after WWII

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Germany

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Major Axis power that caused World War II

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Great Britain

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Major Allied power in Europe that Hitler respects

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Italy

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Fascist Axis Power

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Japan

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Militarist Axis power

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Poland

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World War II officially started when this country was invaded by Hitler/Germany

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Soviet Union

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Communist Allied power

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USA

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Allied power that was known as the “Arsenal of Democracy”

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