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Winston Churchill

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Famously said “Never with so much and to so many to so few” about the RAF

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Charles de Gaulle

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Leader of “free France” but went into exile when France was captured by the Nazis

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Dwight Eisenhower

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US commander of all Allied forces in Europe who led the D-Day invasion

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Hirohito

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emperor of Japan before and after the war

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Adolf Hitler

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leader of the Nazi party in Germany

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Douglas MacArthur

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allied commander of the entire pacific war who famously said, “I shall return”

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Benito Mussolini

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Junior member of Axis who led and founded the Fascist party

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

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leader of the Manhattan project

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Erwin Rommel

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German commander who earned the nickname “Dessert Fox”

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Franklin Roosevelt

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US president during war

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Josef Stalin

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leader of the soviet union that was double crossed by Hitler

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Paul Tibbets

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flew the plane that dropped a bomb on Hiroshima

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Hideki Tojo

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prime minister of Japan who was hung for his war crimes

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Harry Truman

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US president at the end of the war that authorized use of the Atomic bomb

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Isoroku Yamamoto

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Japanese Navy leader who led the bombing of Pearl Harbor

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Facism

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Political movement that emphasized loyalty to the state and obedience to its leader

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Nazism

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The Fascist Movement deployed in Germany;belief of racial superiority of German people

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Mein Kampf

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Hitler’s book about struggles

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appeasement

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giving in to an aggressor in order to keep peace temporarily

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Axis Powers

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Germany, Italy, and Japan

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Isolationism

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philosophy that opposes involvement in political affairs/wars of other countries (neutrality)

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Third Reich

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name for the Nazi government

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Munich Conference

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decided the fate of czechoslovakia

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Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

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signed by stalin and hitler deciding not to attack each other

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blitzkrieg

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German war strategy

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Nagasaki

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city the 2nd atomic bomb was dropped on

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Hiroshima

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Bombed by US along with Nagasaki

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Luftwaffe

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German air force defeated by the RAF

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Pearl Harbor

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Japanese bombing on American ships led by Yamamoto on 12/7/1941

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Aryan

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Nazis glorified Germans as members of the “aryan race”, the race that was superior to others. Being “non-aryan” meant they were weaker (jews, black people, etc)

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3 stages of the Holocaust

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Social Isolation, Forced Isolation/condoned violence, and Final Solution

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Kristallnacht

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Night of Broken glass 11/9/38

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ghetto

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Forcing all Jews to a small area of a city

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Final Solution

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the murder of all the European Jews;Auschwitz;Gas Chambers;Einsatzgruppen (trained soldiers performing the killing), and Death Camps

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genocide

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mass killings of a group of people

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kamikaze

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Japanese suicide pilots

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Manhattan Project

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used to develop the atomic bomb

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swastiska

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The Nazi symbol

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Enola Gay

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The plane flown over Hiroshima that dropped the 1st atomic bomb

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Fuhrer

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A word meaning leader that Hitler used to refer to his position within the Nazi Party

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Nuremberg Trials

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Nazi war criminals on trial

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D-day

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Allies attacked Normandy, final battle

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Hitler is allowed to take the Rhineland (list date and order number)

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March 1936, 2

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Hitler is allowed to take all of Czechoslovakia (list date and order number)

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March 1939, 5

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The Anschluss is allowed to occur (the uniting of Austria with Germany (list date and order number)

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March 1938, 3

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Hitler is allowed to take the Sudetenland (list date and order number)

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September 1938, 4

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Hitler announces that he will no longer follow the Treaty of Versailles (list date and order number)

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March 1935, 1

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Germany attacks poland (first sighting of German war strategy) (list date and order number)

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September 1939, 6

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Why was appeasement tried by the allies?

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It was tried because no one wanted another world war and did not take Hitler seriously

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Why did appeasement fail 5 times?

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It failed because there was no resistance and it’s a test to see how much the allies would give Hitler

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What 3 countries were ruled by fascist dictators by the end of the 1930s?

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Spain, Italy, and Germany

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The earliest incident leading up to WWII in Asia was Japan invading ____________, a region of china

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Manchuria

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These two world leaders that signed a nonaggression pact one week before the invasion of Poland that started WWII (they secretly divided Poland among themselves)

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Hitler and Stalin

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The 3 following factors that kept countries from challenging the expanding Axis empires

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A global depression, Memories of WWI, and the belief in isolationism

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What happened at the Munich conference of 1938? Did Hitler keep his promise?

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The leaders of Britain, France, and Italy agreed to the German annexation of the Sudetenland in exchange for a pledge of peace from Hitler. Hitler did not keep his promise of peace when he later occupied the rest of czechoslovakia.

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Know why the Maginot Line failed and what it was

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It was an array of defenses that France built along its border with Germany in the 1930s, designed to prevent an invasion. It failed because it was not mobile and it assumed that the Ardennes (rough terrain) was impenetrable.

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D-Day refers to who invading whom?

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The allies invaded Normandy which was occupied by Germany

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What was the German war strategy used in WWII to overwhelm the enemy?

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Blitzkrieg “Lightning War”- tanks, infantry, artillery and aircraft, a surprise attack to overwhelm opponents rapidly

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

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Battle of Midway, Allied Victory

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Around how many Jews were put to death as a result of Hitler’s Final Solution?

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around 6 million

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What Battle was Hitler’s last major offensive in Europe? Was it successful?

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The Battle of the Bulge. It was not successful, the allies won

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the 3 blunders of Adolf Hitler during WWII

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Declaring war on the USA, Invasion of Russia, Putting so many resources into the extermination of the Jews

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Which country saw the largest number of Jews killed in the Holocaust?

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Poland

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

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Omaha beach

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The Japanese cities that were cites of atomic bombings

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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What country saw the most casualties during WWII?

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soviet union (Russia)

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What organization was created after WWII (1945) to prevent another war from starting? It included both the USA and the USSR.

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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? This was also a turning point in the war.

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Battle of Stalingrad

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El Alamein

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Egypt, Allied Victory

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Battle of Tobruk

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Libya, Axis victory

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Leningrad

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Finland/Russia, Allied Victory

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Battle of Berlin

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Germany, Allied Victory

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Auschwitz camp

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Poland

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Stalingrad

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South-East Russia, Allied victory

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Turkey

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neutral country

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Monte Casino

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Italy, Allied victory

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Dunkirk Evacuated

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North/middle France, Axis victory

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D-Day

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West/left France, Allied Victory

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The battle of the Bulge

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Belgium, Allied Victory

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