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WWII Flashcards

1
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There had to be unanimity for decisions

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failure of LON

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Manchuria

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Japanese Expansion

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Leader of Japan during World War II and Japan’s longest-reigning monarch. blamed for inaction

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Emperor Hirohito

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the prime minister of Japan during most of the Pacific War

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Hideki Tojo

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Emperor Hirohito and Hideki Tojo

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Militarism in Japan-1930s

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Europe’s first 20th-century fascist dictator, and the word fascism comes from the far-right movement he led in Italy.

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Benito Mussolini

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a struggle for control of the Suez Canal and access to oil from the Middle East and raw materials from Asia.

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North Africa

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Benito Mussolini and North Africa

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Italian Expansion

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Adolf Hitler, Rhineland re-militarized, Anschluss, Sudetenland

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German Expansion

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initiated World War II in Europe by invading Poland on 1 September 1939. He was closely involved in military operations throughout the war and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust, the genocide of about six million Jews and millions of other victims.

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Hitler

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Hitler offered to return to the League of Nations, to sign an air pact to outlaw bombing as a way of war

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Rhineland remilitarized

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12
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political union of Austria with Germany

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Anschluss

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historical German name for the northern, southern, and western areas of former Czechoslovakia

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Sudetenland

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14
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Neville Chamberlain and Appeasement

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Munich Conference

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15
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prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940. He is best known for his role in the Munich Agreement of 1938

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Neville Chamberlain

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16
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given to Britain’s policy in the 1930s of allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked

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Appeasement

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17
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coalition headed by Germany, Italy, and Japan that opposed the Allied powers in World War II.

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The Axis Powers

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the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years.

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Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

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Francisco Franco, Nationalists (The Falange), Loyalists (Popular Front)

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Civil War in Spain

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ruled over Spain from 1939 until his death. He rose to power during the bloody Spanish Civil War when, with the help of Nazi Germany and Fascist

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Francisco Franco

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extreme nationalist political group founded in Spain

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Nationalists (The Falange)

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any coalition of working-class and middle-class parties united for the defense of democratic forms against a presumed Fascist

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Loyalists (Popular Front)

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23
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neutrality Acts

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US Isolationism

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limit U.S. involvement in future wars

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neutrality Acts

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25
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an attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union which marked the beginning of World War II.

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invasion of poland

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military tactic calculated to create psychological shock and resultant disorganization in enemy forces through the employment of surprise, speed, and superiority

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Blitzkrieg

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27
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power when German and Italian forces took over

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Fall of France

28
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sent a telegram to Hitler requesting his permission to assume leadership of the Reich. Considering his request an act of treason, Hitler removed Göring from all his positions, expelled him from the party, and ordered his arrest.

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Luftwaffe

29
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despite de Gaulle’s attempts in London to dissuade them

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Vichy Government

30
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the evacuation of Allied soldiers during World War II from the beaches and harbour

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Dunkirk

31
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led the Free French forces in resisting capitulation to Germany during World War II

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Charles de Gaulle

32
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the plan to invade the United Kingdom by Nazi Germany during World War II.

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Operation Sea Lion

33
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won by the Royal Air Force (RAF) Fighter Command,

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Battle of Britain

34
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Luftwaffe was to cooperate with the army, helping to achieve success on the ground. It was how they had been used in the swift conquest of Poland. The RAF, on the other hand, were geared toward acting independently from the army.

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RAF vs Luftwaffe

35
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pick up incoming enemy aircraft

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Radar

36
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code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union

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Operation Barbarossa

37
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a major ideological change for a country mostly used to looking inward

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US from Isolation to Intervention

38
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Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base

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Pearl Harbor

39
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surrounded by barbed-wire fences patrolled by armed guards who had instructions to shoot anyone who tried to leave

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Japanese Internment Camps

40
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almost all resources and all people were involved in WWII from the nations involved,

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Total War

41
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Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union

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The Allied Powers

42
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statesman, writer, orator and leader who led Britain to victory in the Second World War.

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Winston Churchill

43
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supplying the Soviet Union with arms

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FDR

44
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ruled the Soviet Union as a dictator

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Joseph Stalin

45
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a struggle for control of the Suez Canal and access to oil from the Middle East and raw materials from Asia

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North Africa

46
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Rommel was a highly decorated officer in World War I and was awarded the Pour le Mérite for his actions on the Italian Front

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Erwin Rommel “Desert Fox”

47
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the first officer assigned to the Tank Corps in WWI

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George Patton

48
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the Anglo-American invasion of French Morocco and Algeria during the North African Campaign of World War II.

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Operation Torch

49
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of the decisive victories of World War Two

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Battle of El Alamein

50
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led the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942

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Dwight Eisenhower

51
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one of the most important American naval victories of World War II

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Battle of Midway

52
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stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union

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Battle of Stalingrad

53
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codename for the Battle of Normandy`

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D-Day-Operation Overlord

54
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the last major German military offensive in western Europe

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Battle of the Bulge

55
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a meeting of three World War II allies

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Yalta Conference

56
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the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938

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Harry Truman

57
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Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory

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V-E Day

58
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to draft peace treaties with Germany’s former allies.

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Potsdam Conference

59
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series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg,

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The Nuremburg Trials

60
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commanded the Southwest Pacific Theatre in World War II

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Douglas MacArthur

61
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the first major land battle for the Americans in World War II

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Bataan Death March

62
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strategically necessary for the United States’ war effort

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Iwo Jima

63
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the largest amphibious landing in the Pacific theater of World War II

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Okinawa

64
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code name for the American-led effort to develop a functional atomic weapon during World War II.

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The Manhattan Project

65
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research and design of an atomic bomb.

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J Robert Oppenheimer

66
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atomic bombing of…

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki

67
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because the Soviet Union entered the war

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Japan Surrender

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