World War 2 Flashcards
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Alliances
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- Axis: Japan, Germany, and Italy
- Allies: Brit,France, Russia, US
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Munich conference
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- 1938 conference where Brit, France, Germany, and Italy met to make an appeasement and allowed Nazis to take Sutenland in Czech. if Hitler pledge to respect their border
- 6 months after Hitler broke it and seized Czech and poland
- Signed nonaggression pact with USSR
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World War 2
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- War lasting 1939-1945 where the allies and axis faced off
- Hitler uses “blitzkrieg warefare”-“lightning warfare”
- France and brit declared war when Hitler took over Poland
- France surrendered in 1940 to Germans
- Hitler breaks nonagression pact with USSR and invades
- Hitler retreatsbc used scorched earth policy
- US enters war in 1941 when Pearl Harbor
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How it ended
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- Germany fights on two fronts
- 1943 defeated Mussolini and hung him
- US created internment camps at home for Japanese
- 1944 D-Day: allies invaded European mainland coming the waters
- liberated France, Belgium, and Luxemburg
- Battle of the bulge took out last German offense
- 1945 Germans took unconditional surrender and Hitler commited suicide
- V-E Day may 7,1945
- US dropped 2 A-Bombs on Japan to make surrender
5
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Holocaust
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- Started 1930s with Hitler where Hitler mass slaughtered Jews through the Nazis
- Nuremberg trials used after war to jail all Nazis
6
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Peace Plan
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Yalta Conference where US, Britain, and USSR met
-divided Germany into 4 parts controlled by allied forces
-Germany had to pay reparations to USSR
-Eastern Europe had free elections
Created United Nations
-48 countries forming international peace organization intended to protect the members agst. aggression
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Causes
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1) Hitler defies peace treaty many times and league of nations does nothing
2) Alliances
- Axis and allies
3) Militarism
- Germany starts militarizing again
4) Imperialism
- Hitler annex czech., poland, and tries to invade USSR
