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Ruler of Italy

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Benito Mussolini (and his followers called blackshirts)

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Allied powers

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USSR
US
China
France
Great Britain
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Ruler of Germany

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Adolph Hitler

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Ruler of USSR

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Joseph Stalin

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What was the Nuremberg trials

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German war crime trials against hitler and the nazis

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Ruler of Spain

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Francisco Franco

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Name of ruling party in Germany

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Nazi or National Socialist

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Axis powers

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Germany
Italy
Japan

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Hitlers March

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Rhineland-1936
Austria-1938
Sudetenland-1938
Czechoslovakia-1939
Poland-1939
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What was Kristallnacht

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Jewish businesses and synagogues were destroyed by nazis

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Rulers of Great Britain

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Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill

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What started world war 2

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Germany invaded Poland

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Rulers of Japan

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Hirohito and Tojo

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Rulers of USA

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Harry Truman

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Who did Germany have a non aggression pact with

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USSR

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Ruler of China

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Chaing Kai-Shek

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What is appeasement

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Giving in to demands of Germany to avoid larger conflict

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What happened on D-day

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The allies landed in Normandy, France on June 6, 1944. Day operation overlord began

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What was the holocaust

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Systematic slaughter of European Jews and other groups by hitler and his nazis

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Why did the USSR join the allied forces

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Germany broke pact and invaded them

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Rulers of France

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Edward Daladier

Charles De Gaulle

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What was internment

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Forced relocation of Japanese Americans

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What was island hopping

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Air and sea power were the key to victory in the pacific. Only attacked strategic islands

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Name of plane that dropped atomic bombs on japan

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Enola Gay

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What was V-E day

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Victory in Europe, day after Germany surrendered, May 8, 1945

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What is genocide

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Slaughter of an entire people

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Crushed all political opposion

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Brownshirts

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Two Japanese cities that were bombed

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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What day did Japan surrender

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September 2,1945

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People who believed that a military government should control aspects of society

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Fascists (founded by Benito Mussolini in 1921)

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People that were born in Japan and not eligible for citizenship

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Issei 1/3

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The leader of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia

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Vladimir Lenin, died in 1924

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People who were still loyal to king of Spain

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Loyalists

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Why did hitler target the Jews

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Resented them for the success in business

Blamed them for the downfall of Germany

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Soviet premier that told people about Stalins atrocities

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Nikita Khrushchev

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Book that hitler wrote in prison. His plans to control everything

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Mein Kampf

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Who did hitler target

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Jews
Gypsies
Polish people
Jehovah's witnesses
Handicapped
People in the Ghettos
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People who were born in US and were legal citizens

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Nisei 2/3

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Government had complete control

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Totalitarian state

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Allies took back Frances conquered territories in North Africa

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Operation torch

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Why did hitler target the polish people

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Considered them “subhuman”

Wanted their land for living space

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The name for the allied invasion of German occupied France

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Operation overlord

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The policy of genocide

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The Final Solution

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The creation of the atomic bombs

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Manhattan project

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Naval base in Oahu, Hawaii

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Pearl harbour

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Day Germany surrendered

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May 7,1945

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Name of Hitlers government

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Third Reich

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Why did hitler target Jehovah’s witnesses

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Didn’t like that they put their religion before nazi

Refused to fight in the war

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What day was Paris liberated

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August 5,1944

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What day did hitler invade Poland

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September 1, 1939

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First axis capital to fall

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Italy

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Why did hitler target gypsies

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From India, Sinti and Roma tribes

Practiced witchcraft

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How did Hitler die

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Committed suicide on April 30, 1945

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Why did hitler target the handicapped

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Was afraid they would pass their deformities to their offspring
Considered people who were depressed or who had epilepsy, handicapped

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Battle of the bulge

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Allies were in German territory, September,1944

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