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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"
Aryan
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The German Empire
Third Reich
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The first place that was hit by the atomic bomb in Japan
Hiroshima
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An agreement that Germany can take Sudetenland (a place czechoslovakia)
Munich Conference
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The belief that political ties to other countries should avoided
Isolationism
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A foreign policy of pacifying and aggressive country through negotiation in order to prevent war
Appeasement
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What are the three stages of the Holocaust
Social isolation, Forced isolation, and the Final solution
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What are the three stages of the Holocaust
Social isolation, Forced isolation, and the Final solution
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The Allied invasion of Normandy, the largest invasion force in human history
D-day
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The B-29 bomber to drop the atomic bomb on august 6
Enola Gay
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The American-led effort to make a working atomic weapon
Manhattan Project
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A Japanese suicide tactic to destroy enemy ships (crashing planes)
Kamikaze
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Deliberately killing a group of people (ethnic group or nation)
Genocide
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Trials to determine the leaders (the enemy) punishment or to see if they were guilty or not
Nuremberg
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A big attack on Jews "the night of broken glass"
Kristallnacht
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A place where groups of people are kept forcibly segregated from others
Ghetto
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Hitler's position on the Nazi party
Fuhrer
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The principal nazi symbol
Swastika
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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.
Final solution
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What are the 5 occasions of appeasement
study them on the page of your study guide
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Explain what appeasement is, why it was tried by the allies, and why it failed five times
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.
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What are the three countries that were ruled by fascists to dictators by the end of the 1930s
Spain, Italy, Germany
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The earliest incident leading up to World War II in Asia was Japan invading ____, a region of China
Manchuria
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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.
stalin and hitler
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know the three following factors that kept countries from challenging and expanding access empires
- global depression - memories of World War I - belief in isolationism
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What happened in the Munich conference of 1938? Did Hitler keep his promise?
The Allies let Germany have czechoslovakia in exchange for peace. Obviously Hitler did not keep his promise
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Why did the maginot line fail and what was it
It was a fortification along the border of France and Germany, it failed because the Germans used blitzkrieg
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D-day refers to who invading whom?
Allies invaded France
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what was the German war Strategy
Blitzkrieg
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What battle is considered the major turning point in the war against Japan in the Pacific
The Battle of Midway
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Around how many Jews were put to death as a result of Hitler's final solution
6 million
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What battle was Hitler's last major offense in Europe? Was it successful?
The Battle of the Bulge and it did not work
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Know the following three blenders of Adolf Hitler during World War II
- declaring war on the USA - invasion of Russia - putting so many resources into the extermination of Jews
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Which country sells the largest number of Jews killed in the Holocaust?
Poland
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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)
Omaha Beach
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Which cities were sites of atomic explosions?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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What country saw the most casualties during WWll?
The soviet union
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What organization was created after WWii to prevent another war from starting? It included both USA and USSR.
The United Nations
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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?
Battle of Stalingrad, Jul 17, 1942 – Feb 2, 1943
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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
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
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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