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World War Flashcards

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Leader of Britain

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Churchill

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Leader of Germany

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Hitler

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Leader of Italy

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Mussolini

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What was fascism

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Rooted in extreme nationalism militarism and imperialism

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What is a totalitarian state

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A single party controls the government every aspect of peoples lives

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What happened to Ethiopia when Mussolini became aggressive

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They asked the league of Nations for help and they responded weakly

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7
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Who were the Nazis

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The Nationalist Socialist German workers party

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Who brought the Nazis to power

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Hitler

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9
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Who did Hitler blamed for Germany’s troubles

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Jews and other traitors

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10
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What did Hitler control in Germany

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The German government

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What were Jews rounded up and placed in

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Concentration camps

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12
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Who all was put in concentration camps

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Jews,gypsies, Slavs

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13
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What was the Platt amendment

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Limited the independence of Cuba

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14
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What is a blitzkrieg

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A lightning war

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15
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What is appeasement

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The practice of giving into aggression in order to avoid war

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16
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Did the Japanese and Chinese people get along

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No

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17
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Did Japan attack China

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Yes they bombed China

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18
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Allied powers

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United States
Britain 
France
Soviet union
France
China
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19
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Axis power

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Germany 
Italy 
Japan
Romania
Hungary
20
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did Poland surrender to the Nazis

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Yes

21
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What happened at the attack of Pearl Harbor

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June 7

Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and killed about 2400 people, dropped bombs from planes
Many injured \ killed

22
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What happened at the battle of Britain

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German planes bombed London and many other cities

23
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How did President Roosevelt support allies

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He asked Congress to repeal the neutrality law and he gave Britain 50 old American destroyers (ships)

24
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What is the land lending lease act

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Allowed sales and lows of woman tale to any country he’s Defence the president deems vital to the defense oft he US

25
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What was the war production Board

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Helped factories shift frim making consumer goods to making guns, ships, Aircrafts and other materials

26
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What is a victory garden

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Gardens to combat food shortages

27
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How did women contribute to the war effort

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Almost 5,000,000 entered the workforce in and replaced men who joined Armed Forces

28
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Who was Rosie the riveter

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A symbolic fictional factory worker, a symbol of American women’s contribution to the war effort

29
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What was the double V campaign

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Victory over the enemy abroad and victory over discrimination at home

30
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Who were the Tuskegee airmen

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African American fighter pilots that trained at Tuskegee, Alabama

31
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What was the impact of sub Marines

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They sunk ships faster than the allies could

32
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Who commanded the US forces in the Pacific

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Douglas MacArthur

33
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What happened at the battle of Midway

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U.S. Navy sinks four Japanese aircraft carriers and destroys hundreds of airplanes: major Japanese offensive is turned back

34
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Who commanded the American forces in the northern Africa

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Dwight D Eisenhower
Omar Bradley
George S Patton

35
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What happened at D-Day

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Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy and go onto free France from Germany control

36
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Who was president after FDR

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Harry S Truman

37
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What was Allies VE day in Europe

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Their victory of Europe

38
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Who were Navajo code talkers

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Navajo soldiers made their own language

39
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What happened to hiroshima on August 6, 1945

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American bombers dropped an atomic bomb on Japan

40
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What was a kamikaze pilot

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A pilot who intentionally killed themselves. They loaded old planes w bombs and then deliberately crashed them and Allied ships

41
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What was VJ day

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Victory of Japan

42
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What was the holocaust

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More than 6 million Jews were tortured or murdered

43
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What happened at the Nuremberg trials

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12 Nazi leaders were sentenced death thousands were imprisoned

44
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What is the timeline of World War II

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1931 to 1945

45
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Leader of Soviet union

A

Stalin

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