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He was the emperor of Japan during world war II

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Hirohito

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The 34th president of the United States and the supreme commander of the allies (troops invading France)

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Dwight Eisenhower

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Leader of Italy, Invented Fascism

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Benito Mussolini

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Was known as the “Desert Fox” and was a German Commander

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Erwin Rommel

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The brigadier general in the air force that flew the “Enola Gay” (named after his mom), and this was the first atomic bomb to be dropped

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Paul Tibits

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32nd president of the United States, created the new deal policies before the war

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Franklin Roosevelt

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The prime minister of the UK, and led the country to the brink of victory. He also said “never was so much owed by so many to so few.”

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Winston Churchill

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Chancollor of the Nazies, and invaded various countries during the war

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Adolf Hitler

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Leader of French government in exile. Led “free France” against Nazi’s in WWll

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Charles de Gaulle

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US general who commanded the pacific army famous. “Returns” to the philippines

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Douglas MacArthur

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“The father of the atomic bomb”

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

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The soviet Dictator during wwII

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Josef Stalin

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33th US President (vice president at the time) who ordered the atomic bomb

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Harry Truman

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Japanese navel officer who lead the attack on pearl harbor

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Isoroku Yamamoto

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The leader of the Japanese Imperial Army (the ones that took over the Japanese government)

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Hideki Tojo

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A militant movement that emphasized loyalty to state and abstinence to the leader

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Fascism

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The germans military strategy

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Blitzkrieg

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The second place that was hit by the atomic bomb in Japan

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Nagasaki

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Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact

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Britain and France asked Russia to join the allies, but at the same time Russia already made a nonaggression pact with Germany

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The place where the japanese made a surprise military attack

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Pearl Harbor

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The German Air Force, largest in all of Europe

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Luftwaffe

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Germany, Italy, and Japan

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Axis Powers

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The German brand of fascism

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Nazism

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“my Struggle,” which was a book that Hitler wrote (while he was in Jail) to set forth his beliefs and plans for Germany

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Mein Kampf

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A person of pure German “Blood”

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Aryan

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The German Empire

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Third Reich

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The first place that was hit by the atomic bomb in Japan

28
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An agreement that Germany can take Sudetenland (a place czechoslovakia)

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Munich Conference

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The belief that political ties to other countries should avoided

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Isolationism

30
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A foreign policy of pacifying and aggressive country through negotiation in order to prevent war

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Appeasement

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What are the three stages of the Holocaust

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Social isolation, Forced isolation, and the Final solution

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What are the three stages of the Holocaust

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Social isolation, Forced isolation, and the Final solution

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The Allied invasion of Normandy, the largest invasion force in human history

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The B-29 bomber to drop the atomic bomb on august 6

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The American-led effort to make a working atomic weapon

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Manhattan Project

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A Japanese suicide tactic to destroy enemy ships (crashing planes)

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Deliberately killing a group of people (ethnic group or nation)

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Trials to determine the leaders (the enemy) punishment or to see if they were guilty or not

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A big attack on Jews “the night of broken glass”

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Kristallnacht

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A place where groups of people are kept forcibly segregated from others

41
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Hitler’s position on the Nazi party

42
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The principal nazi symbol

43
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It’s referred to the mass murder of Europe’s Jews. It brought an end to policies aimed at encouraging or forcing Jews to leave the German Reich and other parts of Europe.

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Final solution

44
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What are the 5 occasions of appeasement

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study them on the page of your study guide

45
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Explain what appeasement is, why it was tried by the allies, and why it failed five times

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Appeasement is giving into an aggressor in order to temporarily keep the peace. It failed because there was no resistance and it’s a test to see how much the allies would give Hitler. It was tried because no one wanted another world war and they did not take Hitler seriously.

46
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What are the three countries that were ruled by fascists to dictators by the end of the 1930s

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Spain, Italy, Germany

47
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The earliest incident leading up to World War II in Asia was Japan invading ____, a region of China

48
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These two world leaders that signed a non-aggression packed one week before the invasion of Poland that started World War II.

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stalin and hitler

49
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know the three following factors that kept countries from challenging and expanding access empires

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  • global depression
  • memories of World War I
  • belief in isolationism
50
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What happened in the Munich conference of 1938? Did Hitler keep his promise?

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The Allies let Germany have czechoslovakia in exchange for peace. Obviously Hitler did not keep his promise

51
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Why did the maginot line fail and what was it

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It was a fortification along the border of France and Germany, it failed because the Germans used blitzkrieg

52
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D-day refers to who invading whom?

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Allies invaded France

53
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what was the German war Strategy

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Blitzkrieg

54
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What battle is considered the major turning point in the war against Japan in the Pacific

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The Battle of Midway

55
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Around how many Jews were put to death as a result of Hitler’s final solution

56
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What battle was Hitler’s last major offense in Europe? Was it successful?

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The Battle of the Bulge and it did not work

57
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Know the following three blenders of Adolf Hitler during World War II

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  • declaring war on the USA
  • invasion of Russia
  • putting so many resources into the extermination of Jews
58
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Which country sells the largest number of Jews killed in the Holocaust?

59
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At which location did Operation Overload meet the most resistance by the Germans? What was the code name of the beach? (hint: over 2,000 Americans were killed here)

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Omaha Beach

60
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Which cities were sites of atomic explosions?

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki

61
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What country saw the most casualties during WWll?

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The soviet union

62
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What organization was created after WWii to prevent another war from starting? It included both USA and USSR.

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The United Nations

63
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What battle cost the USSR over one million soldiers and it put the Germans on the defensive on the Russian front?

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Battle of Stalingrad, Jul 17, 1942 – Feb 2, 1943

64
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WWII Battle Map Key (Use your battle map)

Copy + Paste Link:

https://sgs-austin.myschoolapp.com/ftpimages/679/download/download_8021395.pdf

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A = Battle of El Alamein, Allied
B = Battle of Tobuk, Axis
C = Battle of Leningrad, Allied
D = Battle of Berlin, Allied
E = Auschwitz (Camp)
AB = Battle of Stalingrad, Allied
BC = Dunkirk Evacuated, Axis
DE = D-Day Invasion, Allied
ABC = Battle of the Bulge
AC = Neutral Turkey, no battle
AD = Monte Casino, Allied

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Know and describe the three stages of the Holocaust

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Stage 1 - social isolation
- nuremberg laws = 1935
- negative propaganda
- segregation
- encouraged immigration “Jews not
welcomed”
Stage 2 - forced isolation/ condoned violence
- key event was kristallnacht (11/9/1938)
- Ghettos
- Concentration camps - by the end they
were known as death camps
stage 3 - the final solution
- the secret police
- Einsatzgruppen ( performed executions
with guns)
- death camps which was placed in the
late 1941
- would use gas to kill people
- Auschwitz - largest death camp in
Poland, One out of six million were
killed there
- 90% (3 million) Polish Jews murdered

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