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The World at War, The Allied Victory (Chapter 26 & 27) Flashcards

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Rhineland

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-Regained

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Nazi/Soviet Pact

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-Jointly invade Poland
-WII has begun

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Axis/Allied Powers

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-Axis: Germany, Italy, and Japan
-Allied: Great Britain, France, and Russia

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Tojo

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-Leader of Japan

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Pearl Harbor

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-US Navy Base
-December 7th, 1941

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Erwin Rommel

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-Desert Fox
-“Ghost Division”

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Eisenhower

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Holocaust

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-“Final Solution”
-Mass genocide

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Munich Pact

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-Gave Hitler land (Czechoslovakia)

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Lend Lease Act

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-Lend materials to defend US

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Luftwaffe

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-aerial-warfare branch of the Wehrmacht before and during World War II

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Mussolini

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-Fascism

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Midway

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-Turning point in the war

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Operation Overlord

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-D-Day
-Normandy, France
-Eisenhower (5k ships, 10k planes, 150k troops)

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Iwo Jima

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-Base near the Japanese Coast

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Chamberlin

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-British Prime Minister

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Dunkirk

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-Escape across the Channel

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Operation Sea Lion

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-Hitler’s invasion of Britain

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Stalin

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-Collectivism

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Coral Sea

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-Ships don’t engage

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Stalingrad

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-Germany invades USSR
-2 million killed or injured
-Winter forces Germany to retreat
-Order No. 227

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Okinawa

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-Bloodiest battle of the Pacific war

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Sudetenland

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Blitzkrieg

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-Lightning War

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Winston Churchill
-British Prime Minister
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Hitler
-3rd Reich
27
MacArthur
-"I shall return"
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El Alamien
-Ended Campaign
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Battle of the Bulge
-Hitler's Final Defeat -Lasted 6 wks
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Manhattan Project
-Hiroshima/Nagasaki

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