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WW2 Vocab. Flashcards

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Benito Mussolini

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Italian France dictator

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fascism

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political philosophy that advocates a strong nationalistic dictatorship

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Adolf Hitler

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German dictator, Nazi Party head

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Josehp Stalin

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communist dictator of the Soviet Union c. 1924-1953

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Axis

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the Rome-Berlin Axis, the alliance between Mussolini and Hitler, later joined by Japan

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Neville Chamberlain

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Prime Minister of Great Britain, made Munich Agreement with Hitler

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appeasment

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meeting demands of a hostile power in order to avoid war

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blitzkrieg

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German “lighting war” tactics

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Lend-Lease Act

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allowed the United States to lend weapons to allies

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Pearl Harbor

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U.S. Naval base attacked by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941

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Hideki Tojo

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Prime Minister of Japan 1941-1944

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infamy

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evil fame or reputation

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War Production Board

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government agency set up during World War 2 to coordinate the production of military equipment and supplies

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A. Philip Randolph

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African American labor leader during World War 2

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braceros

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Mexican workers hired to perform farm labor during World War 2

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Tuskegee Airmen

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famous segregated unit of African-American pilots

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Rosie the Riveter

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a character who symbolized women in manufacturing jobs

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Japanese American internment

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the removal of Japanese Americans from the West to prison camps during World War 2

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Nesei

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Japanese Americans born in the United States

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gross national product

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total value of all the goods and services produced by a nation during a year

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rationing

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the distribution of scarce resources and products

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war bonds

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loans that the government promised to repay with interest

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D-Day

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allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944

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General Erwin Rommel

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German commander in North Africa

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General Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Supreme Allied Commander in Europe

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Stalingrad

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Soviet City where the German army was forced to surrender after a battle that lasted for months

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Battle of the Bulge

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final German assault in December 1944 in Ardennes region of Belguim and Lexemburg

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Yalta conference

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conference where Allies planned the post-war world

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Holocaust

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Nazi German crime of killing more than 11 million Jews and other persecuted people in concetration camps

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anti-semitism

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prejudice against Jews

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Battle of Midway

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U.S. vicory over Japanese off Midway Island that proved to be the turning point of the war

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island hopping

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Allied strategy in Pacific of invading selected islands, and using them as bases to advance closer to Japan

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Guadal canal

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first U.S. land victory over the Japanese, 1943

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Manhattan Project

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top-secret government project to develop the atomic bomb

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Hiroshima

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Japanese city that was hit with the first atomic bomb on August 6, 1945

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code-talkers

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Navojo Indians recruited by the U.S. Marine corps to transmit messages in the Navajjo language

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kamikaze

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Japanese suicide pilot

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Marshall plan

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U.S. plan developed by George C. Marshall to help boost the economies of European Nations after the war

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Potsdam conference

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Allies’ meeting in Potsdam, Germany to plan the end of the war

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Nuremburg trials

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war crime trials of Nazi leaders in Nuremburg, Germany

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United Nations

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international peacekeeping body founded by 50 nations in April, 1945

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G.I. Bill of Rights

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government bill that paid for veterans’ education and living expenses

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communism

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single-party political system in which the goverment controls and plans the economy with the goal of common ownership of all property

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