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3 German POW camps

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Robinson
Chaffee
dermott

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4 main causes of ww2

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hitler- vowed to defy the treaty of Versailles and restore Germany
expansionism- Germany, Italy and Japan began expanding their empires by overtaking countries
appeasement- meeting demands of a hostile power to avoid war
treaty of Versailles- Germans resented treaty and its harshness

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3 advancements in ww2

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  • Manhattan project
  • radar and sonar
  • penicillin
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Maurice footsie Britt

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  • served in North Africa and Italy
  • congressional Medal of Honor
  • lt governor
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William Darby

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army ranger battalion

from fort smith

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Paul Douglas

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highly decorated fighter pilot

from Greene county

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pierce McKinnon

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shot down more that 20 enemy planes

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Woodrow Crockett

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Tuskegee airmen

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Munich agreement

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England agrees that Germany could have sudentland of hitler didn’t take over more land

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appeasement

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meeting demands of a hostile power to avoid war

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Munich conference

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meeting between Germany and Great Britain

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what started ww2?

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the invasion of Poland

  • used blitzkrieg
  • sept 1, 1939
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non-aggression pact… who signed it with Germany?

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Soviet Union

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what 2 things stopped hurlers defense in the Battle of Britain?

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radar and enigma

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name of British Air Force

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Royal Air Force

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name of German Air Force

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Luftwaffe

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2 Japanese internment/relocation camps

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  • Jerome

- rowher

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island hopping

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  • establishing a line of overlapping island bases

- capture key islands until Japan is in range

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blitzkrieg

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lightning warfare

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VE Day

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victory in Europe

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kamikaze

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Japanese suicide planes

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what 2 places were bombed in Japan?

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  • Nagasaki

- Hiroshima

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allied powers

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Britain
Russia
U.S.

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who was on axis powers?

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Germany
Italy
Japan

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Tuskegee airmen

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black group of pilots that escorted bombers into war

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3 reasons why the U.S. stayed isolated

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  • U.S. citizens felt like they were dragged into ww1
  • felt they should focus on domestic problems
  • congress passed neutrality acts in 1930s
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Marshall plan

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George Marshall offered economic aid to all European countries regardless of what side they were on during the war

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williwaw war

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conflict in aluetian islands in Alaska

Arkansas national guard served in it

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commander of allied forces in Europe

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Eisenhower

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commander of allied forces in pacific

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Douglas mcarthur

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baton death match

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  • forced march of over 50 miles where Japanese treated captives terribly
  • killed 16,000 of 70,000 prisoners
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what made Japan mad at us?

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we cut off their oil supply

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Doolittle raid

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  • Doolittle bombed Tokyo and 4 other Japanese cities

- Japan went into China killing 250,00 civilians to look for doolittles men

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War production board

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directed the manufacture of wartime supplies

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Pearl Harbor

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December 7, 1941

“a day which will live in infamy”

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Battle of Britain (matching)

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  • nazis bombed Britain hoping to force them into withdrawing from the war
  • first battle fought over control of air
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Stalingrad (matching)

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Luftwaffe conduct nightly raids , soviets launch counter offensive

  • trapped Germans inside city
  • Germany now on defensive
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battle of the bulge(matching)

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last German offensive

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midway(matching)

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turning point of pacific war
U.S. broke Japanese code and knew of attack
allies launch counter attack

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iwojima/Okinawa

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in Japan
bloodiest battles of war
land battles
Japan put up desperate fight

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d-day(matching)

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Land sea air battle
significance- Germany retreats eastward
allied troops secured beaches by end of the day

42
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what events from ww2 have changed our world and our way of thinking?

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holocaust- shows what a bad person in power can do; racism; communist is bad
Pearl Harbor- one day can change the fate of a country or war; how important oil is; us joined war; aggressiveness

43
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should we have dropped the atomic bomb?

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1) pro- showed Japan we weren’t kidding; revolutionary weapon
2) pro- made the war end quicker; less deaths than ground war

44
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desert fox

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Erwin rommels; sent by hitler to defeat afrika korps and allies

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