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Isoroku Yamamoto

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Mastermind behind Pearl Harbor

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Maginot line

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French forts along French and Germany border

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Luftwaffe

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Germanys air-force

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Douglas MacArthur

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The commander of the allied forces in the pacific

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Operation Barbarossa

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The Nazi plan to invade the Soviet Union

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Pearl Harbor

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December 7th 1941

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Battle of midway

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Considered the Turing point in the pacific for the USA

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Georgi Zhukov

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Led the soviets in repelling the Nazi invasion of the USSR

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Operation sea lion

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Nazi plan to attack Great Britain-Nazis outnumbered l-they attacked airfields then cities

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Joseph Stalin

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Dictator of Soviet Union

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James Doolittle

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Guy who dropped the bombs on Japan in reaction to Pearl Harbor

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Battle of Guadalcanal

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USA attacked this place because Japan was building a new air base

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Henri Petain

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Controlled southern part of France when France fell

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Chester Nimitz

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Commander in chief of the USA pacific fleet

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Charles de Gaulle

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Leader of free France in London England

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Winston Churchill

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British prime minister

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Erwin kommel

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Desert Fox-Nazi leader of the tank division

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Battle of the coral sea

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A new battle strategy was used-airplanes took off from huge aircraft carriers and attacked ships

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Lend-lease act

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Passed in 1941 president could lend/lease arms/other supplies to any other country in alliance with USA

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Who did Stalin sign the Nonaggression pact with?

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Adopt Hitler or Nazi Germany

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When did world war 2 start

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September 1st 1939

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The Atlantic charter was a declaration of the right to freedom to?

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A nation could choose its own government, trade, and no territorial changes

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Germany successfully used the Blizkrieg in an attack on

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Poland

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What 2 actions did the USA take to stop the Japanese advance in Southeast Asia

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  1. USA sent aid to Chinese resistance

2. cutoff oil shipment to Japan

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What 4 countries did Joseph Stalin (USSR) take under the nonaggression pact?

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Lithuania,Latvia,Estonia,Finland

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Explain the Nazi military strategy of the blitzkrieg

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The attack is fast and quick and surprises the the victim/enemy-lighting war/quick moving attacks

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