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WWII Flashcards

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Nonaggression pact

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peace treaty between Stalin and Hitler

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blitzkrieg

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“lightning war”, german military strategy using fast moving aiplanes and tanks and massive infantry forces to take enemy defenders by surprise and overwhelm them

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Charles de Gaulle

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French general who tried to reconquer france after it fell

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Winston Churchill

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British prime minister

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Battle of Britain

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battle between Germany and Britain, when britains smuggled german codes to quickly launched attacks against germans and had a strong defense. germans bombed the streets of london

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Erwin Rommel

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german general who commanded afrika korps, a tank force sent to aid the Italians.

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Atlantic Charter

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declaration between Roosevelt and Churchill, upholding free trade aong nations and the right of people to choose their own government, peace plan to end world war 2

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Isoroku Yamamoto

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Japanese admira, japans greatest naval strategist

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pearl Harbor

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December 7th 1941 Japanese bombing on pearl harbor, Hawaii

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Battle of Midway

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battle between americans and Japanese, when American planes destroyed Japanese planes and aircraft carriers before they got into the air

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Douglas MacArthur

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general and commander of the allied land forces in the pacific leading battle of guadalcanal

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Battle of Guadalcanal

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when allies attacked Japanese airbase on the island of Guadalcanal before it was completed

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Kristallnacht

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“night of broken glass” Nazi storm troopers attacked jewish homes, buisnesses and synagogues, murdered around 100 jews

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ghettos

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segregated jewish areas, sealed off with barbed wire and stone walls.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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American general led force against Rommels Afrika Korps with british army

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Battle of Stalingrad

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germans went on bombing raids destroying the city of Stalingrad, germans retreated after the Russian winter when their numbers were reduced from starvation and frostbite

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Battle of the Bulge

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german tanks broke through American defense along front in ardennes

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Kamikazes

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Japanese suicide pilots

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Nuremberg trials

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trials held in Nuremberg to send war criminals to life sentence of prison

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Demilitarization

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disbanding armed forces

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democratization

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process of creating a government elected by the people

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United Nations

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international organization was intended to protect the members against aggression

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Containment

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policy directed at blocking soviet influence and stopping expansion of communism

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Truman Doctrine

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Trumans support for countries that rejected communism

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Marshall Plan

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Assistance program provided food, machinery and other materials to rebuild western Europe

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Cold war

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war between united states and soviet union, struggle over political differences carried by means short of military action

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NATO

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Noth atlantic treaty organization- defensive military alliance between united states and Canada during the cold war

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Warsaw pact

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Soviets defensive military alliance with east Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania

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Brinkmanship

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willingness to go the edge of war

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D-Day

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allied counterattack where dwight D Eisenhower stationed a fake army to attack french seaport, while they used their larger troops to attack normandy (june 6th, 1944)

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Unconditional Surrender

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Germany was surrounded by allied forces, hitler and his wife committed suicide. german military then requested surrender

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Aryan

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“master race”,non-Jewish Germans of pure heritage

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genocide

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killing an entire race, or large group of people

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Holocaust

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the systematic mass slaughter of Jews and other groups deemed inferior by Nazi Germans

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The Final Solution

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Hitler plan to kill Jews faster, by hunting them down and executed them or sending them to concentration camps where they would also inevitably be murdered

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Yalta Conference

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Post war plan where united states, britain and soviet union met at black sea resort of yalta and agreed to divide germany into zones of occupation controlled by allied military forces

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Lebensraum

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” living space” additional territory that, according to hitler, Germany needed because it was overcrowded

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iron curtain

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during the cold war, boundary separating communist nations of eastern Europe from the mostly democratic nations of western europe

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Bataan death march

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Japanese forced allied prisoners of the war to march a 50 mile stretch of the Bataan Peninsula.

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Manhattan project

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development of atomic bombs

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denazification

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to rid of Nazism or Nazi influence

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Internment Camps

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prison camp for the confinement of enemy prisoners of war

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Battle of Iwo Jima

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American marines took island of iwo jima

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Theory of Relativity

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albert eisteins ideas about the interrelationships between time and space and between energy and matter

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existentialism

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philosophy based on the idea that people give meaning to their lives through their choices and actions

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Facism

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political movement that promotes extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights and a dictatorial one-party rule

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Surrealism

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artistic movement tht focuses on the workings of the unconscious mind

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Jazz

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style of popular music developed by African American musicians

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Great Depression

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severe economic slump that followed the collapse of the US stock market in 1929

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Coalition Government

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government controlled by a temporary alliance of several political parties

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New Deal

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US president Franklin Roosevelt’s economic reform program designed to solve the problems created by the great depression

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Nazism

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fascist policies, based on the totalitarianism belief in racial superiority and state control of industry

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Axis Powers

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alliance between Germany, Italy and japan in world war 2

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appeasement

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concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war

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Mein Kampf

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“my struggle” book by Adolf Hitler during his imprisonment, describing his beliefs and goals for Germany

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Munich Conference

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meeting of representatives of Britain, france, Italy, and Germany, allowing Nazi Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia if he respected its borders

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Third Reich

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the third of german empire established by adolf hitler in 1930s

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isolationism

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the policy of isolating one’s country from the affairs of other nations by declining to enter into alliances or international agreements, to devote the entire efforts of one’s country to its own advancement by avoiding foreign entanglements

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Kulaks

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wealthier peasants

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Weimar Republic

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the republic that was established in Germany 1919-1933

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Charles Lindbergh

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anti-Semite, started America first

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Sigmund Freud

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father of philosophy: id, ego, super ego

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Cubism

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boxy, geometric form of painting commonly done by Picasso

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Francisco Franco

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took over Spain after Spanish civil war, fascist ruler, neutral during world war II

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Allied leaders

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Stalin(Soviets), Churchill(Britain), Charles de Gualle(France), Roosevelt(U.S)

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Axis leaders

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Mussolini (Italy), Hitler (Germany)

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