World War 2

Question 1

New deal

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A large public project that helped to provide jobs for the unemployed

Question 2

Non aggression pact

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Pact between hitler and Stalin pledging not to attack eachother

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Dawes plan

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An attempt in 1924 to solve the reparations problem

Loans from American banks to help German economy

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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President of United States during ww2

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Free-enterprise

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Economic system based on private ownership and principles of supply and demand

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Polish corridor

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A strip of land taken from Germany after the treaty of Versailles
Gave Poland access to Baltic Sea

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Arsenal of democracy

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Supplying arms but not soldiers to the free countries of the world
The USA was known as this

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Lend-Lease Act 1941

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Was the principal means for providing US military aid to foreign nations during world war 2

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The allies

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Britain, France, Commenwealth nations

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Blitzkrieg

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Fast-moving weapons of modern war
Tank and airplane
Lightning warfare

Question 11

September 27, 1939

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Poland was conquered

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Phony war

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Was a 6 month time period between the invasion of Poland and France where Germany did not advance

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Winter war

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Fought in heavy snow in 1940

Fought between Finland and Russia for the north

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Luftwaffe

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German Air Force

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Maginot line

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French military line of concrete walls and defence

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Isolationism

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The idea that Americans should avoid political ties to other countries

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Low Countries

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Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg

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June 12th, 1940

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France surrendered to Germany today

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The miracle at Dunkirk

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Allies had their back to the sea and Germany let off so they could get away

Question 20

Vichy France

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Lower third of France left in control of French prime minister after Germany took France

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Operation Sea Lion

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Code name for the invasion of Britain

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Royal Air Force

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Britains Air Force

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Radar

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A secret electronic tracking system Britain had

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Ultra

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A deciding machine which cracked enigma

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Embargo

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Stoppage of all trade with Japan

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Conscription (drafting)

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Forcing people to serve in army

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December 7th, 1941

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Pearl Harbour is bombed

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Hissho

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Means certain victory and was on the bandanas all the pilots wore in pearl harbour

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Operation jubilee

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Dieppe raid | Second World War allied attack on German soil

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Operation torch

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Battle of El-Alamein where allies were victorious on offensive against nazis for the first time

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Champagne campaign

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Italian peninsula that was easy to capture for the allies

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Operation overlord

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D-day | 2 mill troops on coast of France

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April 28th, 1945

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Mussolini's death

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April 30th, 1945

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Hitlers death

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Wolves den

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Bunker where butler killed himself

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April 12th, 1945

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Roosevelt's death

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VE Day Include date

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The fall of Berlin and Germany surrenders. | May 2nd, 1945

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Kamikaze

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Means God wind

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Little boy

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Atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima

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Fat man

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Atomic bomb dropped over Nagasaki

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September 2nd, 1945

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Surrender of Japan

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The holocaust

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Genocide of approx 6 million Jews during world war 2

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Einsatzgruppen

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Mobile killing units

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Heinrich Himmler

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SS commander who ordered troops to kill all civilians

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Warsaw ghetto

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Confined areas of large cities where Jews were kept

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Nazi race science

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The use of scientific techniques to sanction the belief in racial superiority

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Zyklon B

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A crystallized Prussia acid used to kill Jews in death chamber

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Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere

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Japan propaganda concept that outlined the expansion of Japan

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Emperor Hirohito

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Emperor of Japan during world war 2 | Defence minister

Question 50

Joseph Goebbels

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German politician and reich master of propaganda