VOCAB NEXT CHAPTER Flashcards

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Non-Aggression Pact

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Ten-year protection given to Stalin by Hitler

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2
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Blitz Krieg

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Lightning War

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3
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Charles de Gaulle

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French general, set up a government-in-exile in London

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4
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Winston Churchill

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New British Prime minister, declared his nation would never give in

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5
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Battle of Britain

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Germany attack Britain from September 7, 1940, to May 10, 1941, with bombs.

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6
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Erwin Rommel

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general who commanded the Afrika Korps

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7
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Atlantic Charter

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Roosevelt and Churchill met secretly and issued the joint declaration

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8
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Isoroku Yamamoto

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Admiral, Japan’s greatest naval strategist, called attack on US and Hawaii

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9
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Pearl Harbor

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Japanese Bombing Attack

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10
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Battle of Midway

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Battle against US vs Japan, America wins, leaving Japan crippled

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11
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Douglas MacArthur

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general, commander of the Allied forces in the Pacific, developed a plan to handle the problem

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12
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Battle of Guadal canal

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Battle on land and sea, Japan abandoned the Island of Death

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13
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Aryans

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Germanic master race

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14
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Kristallnacht

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Night of Broken Glass

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15
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Ghettos

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Segregated Jewish areas

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16
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“Final Solution”

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Hitler’s plan, developed after being impatient

17
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Genocide

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The systematic murder of an entire people

18
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Holocaust

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Systematic mass slaughter of Jews

19
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Dwight D Eisenhower

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American general who led Operation Torch

20
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Battle of Stalingrad

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Bombings, Stail said to fight to the death for the city named after him

21
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D-Day

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Invasion of a beach used tank traps, arty, trenches, massive anti-tank weapons, giant guns.

22
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Battle of the bulge

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The push into allied lines

23
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Kamikazes

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Japanese suicide pilots

24
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Nuremberg Trials

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22 Nazi leaders charged with waging the war of aggression

25
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Demilitarization

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Disbanding armed forces

26
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Democratization

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Process of creating a government elected by the people