WW2

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did not create and enduring peace

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Treaty of Versialles

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resulted in conservative German resentment against the dictated peace

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Article 231

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During the 1930s, they stood by while aggressors like Germany and Italy invaded other countries and violated the Versailles Treaty

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League of Nations

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Germany and other European nations agreed to settle all disputes peacefully. gave Europeans false sense of security about the future

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Locarno Pact, 1925

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62 nations signed the treaty proclaiming “war is illegal”

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Kellog-Briand Pact, 1928

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invaded by Japan, League of Nations condemned the invasion but did little by the way of sanctions

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Manchuria, 1931

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invaded by Italy, League of Nations imposed sanctions on Italy, but did not include oil on the list of embargoed goods

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Ethiopia, 1935

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a war waged in Spain, against the local governments

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Spanish Civil War

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a fascist who sought to overthrow the Spanish government in the Spanish civil war

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Francisco Franco

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formed as a response to military cooperation from Spain, an alliance between Fascist Italy and Germany

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Rome-Berlin Axis

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reoccupied by Germany, directly violated the Versailles Treaty as well as the Locarno Pact

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Rhineland, 1936

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making concessions to an aggressor in order to achieve peace

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appeasement

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in Britain, stemmed from horrible memories of WW1, made the government reluctant to another world war with Germany

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pacifism

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Germany annexed Austria

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Anschluss, 1938

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wanted by Hitler, a German-speaking province in western Czechoslovakia

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Sudetenland

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resolved the issue of Sudetenland in a conference

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Munich Conference

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British prime minister who organized the Munich conference

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Neville Chamberlain

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a Baltic port city that separated East Prussia from Germany

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Polish Corridor, Danzig

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Hitler sought assurance that Russia would not attack Germany if he invaded Poland

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German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

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invaded by Germany, marked the beginning of WW2

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invasion of Poland

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“lightning war”, used against Poland

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Blitzkrieg

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occurred in less than six weeks, thousands of French and British soldiers were trapped on French beaches

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fall of France

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created after fall of France

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Vichy France

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led the “Free French”, fled to Britain during France’s fall

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Charles de Gaulle

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added Japan to the Rome-Berlin Axis for mutual defense and military support

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Tripartite Pact, 1940

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one of the most critical battles of the war, one of Hitler’s inner circles was sent to destroy RAF

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Battle of Britain: RAF vs. Luftwaffe

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a new technology used by Britain to detect Germany’s air attacks

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radar

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“living space”

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“lubensraum”

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what WW2 was know as in the USSR

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“Great Patriotic War of the Fatherland”

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Churchill and US President Franklin Roosevelt mat secretly after the invasion of Soviet Union, strongly used “self determination”

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Atlantic Charter

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gave large amounts of money and supplies to help Britain and Soviets; effectively ended US neutrality

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Lend-lease

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attacked by Japan, resulted in US entry into the war

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Pearl Harbor

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Consisted of Britain, the Soviet Union and the US as well as two dozen other countries

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Grand Alliance

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resulted into the death of 6 million Jews

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Holocaust

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homes Jews were forced to live in at Poland, limited adequate supplies

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Jewish ghettos

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brought about a formal plan of the Final Solution

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Wannsee Conference

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a solution to the Jewish problem

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“Final Solution”

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one of the most notorious death camps in Poland

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Auschwitz

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British forces, led by Bernard Montgomery, drove the Germans out of Egypt

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El Alamein

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Critical battle of the eastern front, first German land defeat in Europe

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Stalingrad

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120,000 troops crossed the English Channel from Southern England and invaded France in an amphibious assault on Normandy

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D-Day

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After Hitler’s counter offensive failed, the allies quickly penetrated deep into Germany in 1945

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Battle of the Bulge

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Two cities in Japan, that the US dropped atomic bombs on

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Hiroshima, Nagasaki

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first meeting of the “Big Three” (Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin), Stalin insisted on Soviet Control of eastern Europe and the carving up of Germany amongst the allies

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Tehran Conference, 1943

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another meeting of the Big Three, Stalin agreed to the Deceleration of Liberated Europe” which called for free elections, Germany would be divided into occupied zones and a coalition government of communists and non communists was agreed to for Poland

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Yalta Conference, 1945

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Stain reversed his position on eastern Europe stating there would be no free-elections

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Potsdam Conference, 1945