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Opposition to all war

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Pacifism

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1930, passed by US, forbade sale of arms to nation at war, no traveling on ships of warring powers goal was to avoid conflict

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Neutrality acts

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Rome Berlin Tokyo, fight soviet communism agree not to interfere with expansion

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Axis powers

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Conservative general, led a revolt, 1936, Spain backed by nationalists

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Francisco Franco

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Union of Austria and Germany

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Anschluss

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Region of west Czechoslovakia

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Sudetenland

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Divide up Poland, no fighting between hitler and Stalin

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Nazi soviet pact

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Iightning war by hitler, uses tanks and airpower

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Blitzkrieg

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German Air Force

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Luftwaffe

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British sent all avaliable ships here to save stranded soliders form nazis

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Dunkirk

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German puppet state south France with capital in

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Vichy

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Hitlers commander, desert fox, sent to North Africa, pushed British back to Egypt

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General Erwin Rommel

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13
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Detention centers for people considered enemy of the state

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Concentration camps

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14
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March 1941, congress passed, US, sell or lend materials to any country the president deems vital to US defense

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Lend lease act

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Character symbolized women, inspired women to join war effort

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Rosie the riveter

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Ships that transport aircraft and accommodate the take off and landing of airplanes

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Aircraft carriers

17
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American General, took command of joint British and American force in morocco and Algeria

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Dwight Eisenhower

18
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City in Soviet Union where the Germans reached. Turning point

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Stalingrad

19
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Alied invasion of France June 6 1944

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D day

20
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Meeting where Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin agreed that SU will war against japan, get land

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Yalta conference

21
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May 8 1945 victory in Europe

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V e day

22
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Japanese gain control of Philippines killed 10000 Americans and Filipinos

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Bataan death march

23
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Capaign to recapture some japan islands while bypassing others

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Island hopping

24
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American forces general, moved north towards japan

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Douglas Mac Arthur

25
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Pilots with suicide missions

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Kamikaze

26
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Research to create atomic bomb

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Manhattan project

27
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Aug 6 1945 Americans dropped bomb here in japan

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Hiroshima

28
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Aug 8 US dropped bomb here

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Nagasaki

29
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Germany, allies held crime trials

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Nuremberg

30
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Charter 50 nations

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United Nations

31
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State of tension an hostility between nations with US on one side and SU on other

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Cold War

32
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Policy by US limit communism to areas under SU

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Truman doctrine

33
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Us aid package for west Europe food and economic assistance

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Marshall Plan

34
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Policy developed by west, giving in to demands to keep peace

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Appeasement

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