WWII Flashcards

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Created Fascism, a movement that would plunge most of Europe into darkness.

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Mussolini

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Dictator in Germany that was responsible for Jew concentration camps

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Hitler

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Led the allied armies to victory over Hitler and the axis powers. Prime minister of England

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Churchill

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Leader responsible for the burning of Pearl Harbor.

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Hirohito

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Leader from Spain that used torture, murder, and incarceration to transform the Spanish society.

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Franco

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Dictator of the Soviet union. Through terror, murder, brutality, transformed society from peasants to industrial military.

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Stalin

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President that served more than 2 terms. Helped Americans regain faith during Great Depression.

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FDR

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Russia far east

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Manchuria

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Defended the UK against large scale attacks by Nazi Germany. (Air Force)

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Battle of Britain

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largest invasion in history of warfare witch happened in Normandy, France. June 6th, 1944,

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D-Day

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Surprise attack by Japanese upon naval base pearl harbor December 7th, 1941.

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Pearl Harbor

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12
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Pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi party

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Kristallnacht

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13
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a line of fortification/ obstacles/ weapon installation built by France in the 1930’s to deter invasion of Nazis

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Maginot Line

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14
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specializes in air assault operatios

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101st Airbourne

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15
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Represent the working women in WWII

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Rosie the Riveter

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16
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bypass enemy islands instead of trying to capture them

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island hopping.

17
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34th president of the US

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Eisenhower

18
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stamp issued by the government to allow holder to obtainment food

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Ration stamps

19
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produce the first nuclear weapon

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Manhattan project

20
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A place where a large group of people reside in a small space incarcerated

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Concentration camps

21
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The evacuation of 338,000 allied soldiers

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Miracle at Dunkirk

22
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The official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German occupied Europe.

23
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new location of the Japanese

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executive order 9066

24
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they tested the first nuclear bomb in

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Los Alamos

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code name of D-Day
operation overlord
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home garden planted to increase food production during the war.
Victory Gardens
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Indians that used their tribal language to send secret communications on the battle field.
Navaho Code talkers
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First black military. Never lost a plane.
Tuskegee Airmen
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