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strictly there on their own, not with official US support during the Spanish Civil

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Abraham Lincoln Brigade

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Austrian WWI Veteran; 1920 joined facist Nazi party; 1923 plotted to overthrow Weimar Republic; supposed to serve five years but instead served nine months; during this time wrote Mein Kampf; Nazis slowly gain seats in German legislature; Hitler made Chancellor of Germany 1933

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Adolf Hitler

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was direct enemy of Committee to Defend America by Aiding Allies; didn’t want war; Charles Lindbergh was prominent member and went cross country making anti war speeches

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America First Committee

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the annexation of Austria by Germany

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Anschluss

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giving into enemy demands to keep things neutral

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Appeasment

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set out war aims for allies, comparable to fourteen points, self determination after war, collective security agreement, League of Nations type organization, freedom of seas, and lower trade restrictions

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Atlantic Charter

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German concentration camp set up in Poland

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Auschwitz

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Italy, Germany, and Japan

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Axis Powers

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when British and American soldiers didn’t get out from Phillipines, 600-650 US died, Japan didn’t follow Geneva convention

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Bataan Death March

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German bombers flew over the urban areas of Britain and dropped bombs; children sent into country side; these children would sometimes disappear into wardrobes

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Battle of Britain

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led by Admiral Chester Nimitz; only aircraft carriers

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Battle of Coral Sea

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June 4-7; US signal corp uses Navaho so Japanese can’t understand; sunk 4 Japanese aircraft carriers; hundreds of planes destroyed; Japan now on defensive

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Battle of Midway

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Belgium: Bulge is driven 80 miles long and 50 miles deep

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Battle of the Bulge

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comes to power in the 1920s; comes up with Facism: political idealology (anti communist), Authoritarian style, One Party rule, strong sense of national aggression, racism, retain private property, dictatorship of upper class; Mussolini promises to rebuild Roman Empire; invade Ethopia and Albania

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Benito Mussolini

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originally a German prisoner of war camp, later a concentration camp

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Bergen Belsen

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German airforce

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Blitzkrieg

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a series of laws and diplomatic agreements, initiated by an August 1942 exchange of diplomatic notes between the United States and Mexico, for the importation of temporary contract laborers from Mexico to the United States

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Braecero

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aggressors could send ships to US to buy things; one of the limited ways US helped the allies

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Cash and Carry

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led the free French

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Charles de Gaulle

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was group wanting to aid allies and support war effort, sometimes known as White Committee

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Committee to Defend America by Aiding Allies

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places of mass homocide set up by German Nazis; exterminated Jews, gypsies, mentally handicapped, and gays

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Concentration Camps

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African American group; 1942; modeled after Ghandi

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Congress of Racial Equality

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a group of merchant ships were guarded by other ships for protection from things such as U-Boats

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Convoy System

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worked out Reciprocal Trade Agreement saying if they lower their tariffs, we’ll lower ours up to 50%; Secretary of state

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Cordell Hull

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first Nazi concentration camp

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Dachua

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takes New Guinea and Manila; claim Marianas; Tokyo is in bombing reach; after Battle of Leyte Gulf there is no Japanese Navy

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Douglass MacArthur

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all British soldiers evacuate on any ships available; German planes cannot see to bomb them; French soldiers either go with Brits or pretend to be civilians and run underground resistance

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Dunkirk

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ran Operation Torch; headed D-Day

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Eisenhower

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official name of Japanese Empire

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East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere

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American broadcast journalist who had an especially good career during WWII

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Murrow

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Embargo of Japan

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German soldier sent to Egypt; Desert Fox; Rommel is defeated in Battle of El Alamein

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Rommel

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invaded by Italy

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Ethiopia

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political idealology (anti communist), Authoritarian style, One Party rule, strong sense of national aggression, racism, retain private property, dictatorship of upper class

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Facism

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the extermination of all Jewish people

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Final Solution

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try to overthrow Spain with his group of Nationalists in Spanish Civil War

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Franco

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was president for three terms, two consecutive; died in his last term; recognizes Soviet Union, felt recognizing Moscow might bolster the US against Japanese; also wanted trade with Russia

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Roosevelt

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came up with merchants of death saying US got into WWI for profit; committee charged bankers for protecting their loans through war; passed acts called Neutrality Acts

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Nye

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Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense; considered second in command

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Marshall

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33rd President of the United States of America

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Trumen

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leading member of the Nazi Party; a veteran of WWI, an ace fighter pilot

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Goering

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general of the Imperial Japanese Army

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Tojo

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Emperor of Japan during WWII

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Hirohito

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mass extermination of Jewish

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Holocaust

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remaining neutral in conflict and not helping either side; USA

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Isolationism

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island battle that helped persuade Truman not to invade Japan

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Iwo Jima

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

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US citizens imprisoned on the West coast because of fear of sabotage and prejudice

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Japanese Internment

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nationalist leader of China

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Jiang Jieshi

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leader of totalitarian government in USSR; part of the Big Three

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Stalin

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condemned Japanese actions; Japan leaves League; Hoover wants no part in the shenanigans

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League of Nations

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1941 items will be lent to the allies with on paper expectation of return after war; total of $48,601,365,000 over thirty eight nations; goes to Soviets

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Lend-Lease Act

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aerial warfare branch

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Luftwaffe

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defensive line built during the interwar years that Germany went around

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Maginot Line

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puppet state set up in Northeast China governed under a constitutional monarchy

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Manchukuo

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efforts in US to build an atomic bomb

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Manhattan Project

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Mao Zedong

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theory the US entered WWI for business purposes

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Merchants of Death

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intense pride in your country

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Nationalism

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group used by US to keep secrets from the Japanese

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Navajo Code Talkers

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Prime Minister of the UK

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Neville Chamberlain

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when President announces foreign war we cannot sale arms to belligerent nations, no loans or credit to belligerent nations, Americans can not travel to warring nations, non military goods can go on cash-and-carry basis, banned involvement in Spanish Civil War

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Neutrality Acts

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wars waged in Egypt and Ethiopia

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North Africa

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used after US island hopping to bomb Japan

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Okinawa

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plans to attack Normandy; 150,000 men land on 5 beaches

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Operation Overlrd

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run by Dwight D. Eisenhower British and Americans trapped Italians and Germans in Tunisia

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Operation Torch

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peace lovers

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Pacifists

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Japanese bombed this Naval based coast in Hawii; main reason US entered WWII

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Pearl Harbor

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leader in the African-American civil-rights movement, the American labor movement and socialist political parties

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Randolph

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Churchill, Stalin, and Truman; establishment of post-war order, peace treaties issues, and countering the effects of the war

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Potsdam Conference

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used to influence US citizens to go for war

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Propaganda

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given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 calling for an international “quarantine of the aggressor nations”

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Quarantine Speech

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rationing stuff

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Rationing

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troops sent to help Franco in Spain under word of fighting communism, given permission to rebuild army

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Rhineland

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a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad

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Stalingrad

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non-Germany inhabited by Germans

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Sudetenland

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canal in Egypt connecting Mediterranean Sea to Red Sea

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Suez Canal

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governor of New York; ran twice, lost twice

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Dewey

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complete control of public and private life by the goverment

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Totalitarianism

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popular group of African-American airmen unit

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Tuskegee Airmen

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German submarines

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U-Boats

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Victory in Europe Day! Hazzah!

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V-E Day

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Victory over Japan Day! Yay!

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V-J Day

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is new prime minister who thinks appeasement is stupid

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Churchill

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what U-Boats traveled around in the oceans to ‘hunt’

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Wolf Packs

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1945; last meeting between big three; Stalin promises to declare war on Japan after German surrender; turn back on word to China promising Manchuria to Stalin instead; Stalin drops his charges on Germany to instead steal everything; Stalin sets up puppet government in Poland

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Yalta Conference

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Riots between US sailors and Hispanic teenagers (who wore Zoot Suits) in June 1943

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Zoot Suits

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