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Winston churchill

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“never was so much owed to so few” Prime Minister

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Charles de Gaulle

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led free france against germany

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Dwight Eisenhower

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D-day strategizer

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Hirohito

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Emperor of Japan

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Adolf Hitler

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Evil man, main antagonist of ww2

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Douglas MacArthur

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Commanded allied forces in Asian Pacific

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Benedito Mussolini

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Jr. Partner of the Axis Powers

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J. Robert Oppenhiemer

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father of the atomic bomb

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Erwin Rommel

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German, “Desert Fox”

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Franklin Roosevelt

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you know this guy: president, new deal maker, etc.

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Josef Stalin

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Soviet revolutionary, Allie but lowkey an axis member but not

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Paul Tibbets

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Aircraft captain of Enola Gay: first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb

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Hideki Tojo

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war criminal, mastermind of japanese ww2 companionship

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Harry Truman

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ordered the and only dropping of atomic bombs

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Isoroku Yamamoto

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Admiral of japanese navy, pearl harbor strategist

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Fascism

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Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement

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Nazism

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totalitarian government

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Mein Kampf

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Autobiographical book by Adolf Hitler, manifesto

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appeasement

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giving into an aggressor

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azis powers

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Germany, Italy, Japan

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Isolationism

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advocated for non involvement in european and asian affairs (confilts)

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Third Reich

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The third empire of Germany (nazi germany)

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Munich conference

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the leaders of Great Britain, France, and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex certain areas of Czechoslovakia.

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Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

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agreement between biggest powers

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Blitzkrieg

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overwhelming superiority in combat power

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Nagasaki, Hiroshima

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only places to ever be bombed atomicly in ww2 (and ever)

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Luftwaffe

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Nazi Air weaponry, German air force

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Pearl Harbor

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US Naval base bombed by Japan to instigate US joining war

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Aryan

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German “pureblood”

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Holocaust

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1) Social Isolation
2) Forced Isolation
3) Final Solution

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Kristallnacht

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The night of broken glass, Organized destruction of jewish property

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Ghetto

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Forcing ALL jews into small area of cities

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Final Solution

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euphemism for the murder of entire jewish population: Genocide

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Genocide

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The mass killing of a group of people

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D-Day

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attack on normandy, dummy army

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Kamikaze

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Suicide Pilots

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Manhattan Project

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development of nuclear weapons

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Swastika

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nazi symbol

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Enola Gay

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Paul Tibbets, first aircraft to drop atomic bomb

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Fuhrer

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German word of Leader or Guide

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Nuremberg trials

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Trials for leaders who committed “crimes against humanity”

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

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Spain, Italy, Germany

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The earliest incident leading up to W2 in Asia was japan invading which country?

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Manchuria

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What two leaders secretly divided Poland amongst themselves and made a nonaggression pact?

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Stalin and Hitler

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What three factors kept countries from challenging the expansion of Axis Empires?

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-Global Depression
-Memories of WW1
-THe belief in Isolationism

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What happened at the munich Conference of 1936?

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Hitler made a pledge of peace

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Did Hitler keep his promise that he made at the Munich Conference

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nope

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Maginot Line and why it failed

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defense that France made for its border, it wasn’t movable

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D-day refers to whom invading whom?

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England, US, and Canada invading Nazi france

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German war strategy used to overwhelm armies

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blitzkrieg

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What is considered the major turning point if the war against Japan in the pacific

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Battle of Midway

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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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Battle of the Bulge

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Hitler’s failed last major offensive in Europe

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The 3 blunders of Adolf Hitler

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-Declaring War on the US
-Invasion of Russia
-Putting to many resources into the extermination of jews

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Which country had the largest amount of jews killed in the Holocaust?

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Poland

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At which location did Operation Overlord take place? What was the name of the place? (hint d-day, hint- over 2,000 americans killed here)

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Omaha Beach

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Which country saw the most casualties during ww2?

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USSR (Soviet Union)

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What organization was created after WW2 to prevent another war from starting?

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The United Nations

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What battle cost over one million soldiers and put the germans on the defensive on the Russian Front?

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Battle of Stalingrad

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A

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Battle of El Alamein, 1942: Allied victory

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B

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Battle ofTobruck: Axis Victory

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C

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Battle of Leningrad: Allied Victory

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D

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Battle of Berlin: Allied Victory

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E

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Auschwitz: largest death camp

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AB

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Battle of Stalingrad, turning point of war: Allied Victory

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BC

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Battle of Dunkirk, 300,000 soldiers rescued: Axis Victory

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DE

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D-Day, Normandy: Allied Victory

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ABC

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Battle of the Bulge: Allied Victory

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AC

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Neutral (no battle)

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AD

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Battle of Monte Casino: Allied Victory

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Why was appeasement tried by the allies

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it was tried in hope of avoiding war

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why did appeasement fail

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Allies kept giving hitler what he wanted

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occasion 1

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Hitler announces that he will no longer follow the treaty of Versailles

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Occasion 2

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Hitler is allowed to take rhineland

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occasion 3

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Anschluss is allowed to occur (the unitung of Austria with Germany)

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occasion 4

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Hitler is allowed to take sudetenland

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occasion 5

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Hitler is allowed to take all of Czechoslovakia

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Occasion 6

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Germany invades Poland (war begins)

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Date of Occasion 1

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March of 1935

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Date of Occasion 2

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March of 1936

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Date of Occasion 3

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March of 1938

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Date of Occasion 4

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September 1938

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Date of Occasion 5

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March 1939

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Date of Occasion 6

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September of 1939

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