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Treaty that signed by Germany, Japan, and Italy to resist communism

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Anti-Comintern treaty

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Attempt to preserve peace by yielding to the demands of an aggressor

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Appeasement

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Statement of beliefs signed by britian and the us in Aug 41 similar to Wilson’s 14 points

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Atlantic charter

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Germany, Italy, Japan, and their allies in WW2

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Axis powers

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Name the German plan to invade and defeat the USSR

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Barbarossa

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Air war over britian during WW2 won by the RAF

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Battle of britian

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Leader of French resistance during WW2

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Charles de Gaulle

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June 6, 1944

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D-day

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Premier of France attending the Munich conference

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Edouard daladier

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Supreme commander of allied forces during WW2

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Dwight d. Eisenhower

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The nazi plan to kill all Jews in Europe

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Final solution

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German field marshal and commander of the afrika corps; committed suicide after implication in hitlers assassination attempt

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Erwin Rommell

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American president during most of WW2

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Franklin Roosevelt

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US president that made the decision to “drop the bomb”

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Harry Truman

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Secret agreement between the USSR and Germany to split Poland

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German-Soviet non-aggression pact

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Military dictator of Japan during WW2

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Hideki Tojo

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Treaty signed by 62 nations making war illegal without any way to enforce it

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Kellogg- Briand pact

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Brutal battle in the USSR in which the tide of war turned on the eastern front

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Kursk

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Acts passed by congress between 1935 and 1937 expressing the desire of the US to stay out of future wars

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Neutrality acts

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Meeting at which the sudentenland was given to Germany

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Munich Conference

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Planned allied invasion of Northwest France to open a second front; the largest amphibious invasion in history

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Operation overlord

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British PM at the Munich conference

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Neville Chamberlain

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May 8, 1945 the surrender of Germany

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VE Day

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Meeting where the big three issued at ultimatum to unconditional surrender to Japan and planned the occupation of Germany

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Potsdam

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Meeting of the big three where it was decided that Germany would be temporarily divided and occupied and countries would be allowed to elect their own governments

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Yalta conference

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Nazi extermination camp in Poland where 2 million were killed

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Auschwitz

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German for “lighting war”; war strategy base on rapid movement

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Blitzkrieg

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Hitlers last offensive of WW2 begun before Christmas, 1945

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Battle of the Bulge

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People who are willing to assist their country’s enemies

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Collaborator

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Port on the English Channel where the British evacuated 338,000 soldiers

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Dunkirk

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British victory in North Africa that stopped the nazi attempt to seize the Suez Canal

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El Alamein

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Commander of allied forces in the pacific

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Douglas MacArthur

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First American capture of Japanese held territory with horrendous loss of life

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Guadalcanal

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Japanese city devastated by nuclear attack August 6,1945

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Hiroshima

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Term referring to the genocide of the Jews during WW2

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Holocaust

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French collaboratist and leader of Vichy France

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Henri Petain

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Last Japanese island to be taken (mar-June 1945) before the planned invasion of Japan

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Okinawa

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Japanese attack, December 7, 1941, that brought the US into WW2

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Pearl Harbor

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Act of congress authorizing the president to supply Britain war materials on credit

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Lend-Lease act

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Period between the invasions of Poland and France when the western front was quiet

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Phony war

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City in the USSR near the caspain sea that was the scene of an extensive siege and brutal fighting

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Stalingrad

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Area of Czechoslovakia inhabited mostly by ethnic Germans and demanded by hitler at the Munich conference

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Sudentenland

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September 2, 1945 the surrender of Japan

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V-J Day

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American plan to by-pass islands in the pacific on the way to Japan

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Island hopping

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People who have no wish to engage in world affairs

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Isolationists

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Scene of a major battle of WW2 from feb-mar 1945

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Iwo Jima

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The German Air Force

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Luftwaffe

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League of Nations commission that recommended that Manchuria be returned to china

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Lytton commission

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Japanese city devastated by nuclear attack August 9, 1945

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Nagasaki

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Beaches of France that were invaded on d-day

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Normandy

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