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President of Germany before war

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Hindenburg

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Machine Gun King

Leader of paramilitary and SA

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Ernst Rohm

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Vice chancellor who helped Hitler into office

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Von Papen

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Fascist dictator in Spain after Spanish Civil War

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Francisco Franco

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First British Prime Minister

Munich Conference gives Hitler Sudetenland

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Neville Chamberlain

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Second British Prime Minister

Part of Big Three

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Churchill

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First US president

Declares war

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Roosevelt

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Second US president

Declared use of atomic bomb

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Truman

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Leader of Soviet Union

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Stalin

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Head of tanks for US army

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Patton

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Supreme Allie commander

European

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Eisenhower

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Supreme Allie commander
Pacific
Philippines war

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McArthur

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Leader of Italy

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Mussolini

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Leader of army in El Alamein

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Montgomery

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German army general

Retreats to Tunisia

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Rommel

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Attacks Stalingrad

6th army

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Friedrich Paulus

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Leader of Free France

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Henri Petain

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Retreats from Philippines

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Edward King

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19
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First concentration camp

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Danchau

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Battle of Dunkirk

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France falls to German power

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Upper France

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Occupied

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Lower France

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Free
Vichy
“Puppet State”

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Nazi official

Leader of SS

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Himmler

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Japan blows up own railway

Blames China

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Mukden Incident

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Japanese plan to take over Asia

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Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

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Unites Japan with Italy and Germany

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Tripartite Pact

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Chinese civilians raped by Japanese troops

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Rape of Nanjing

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Unites Austria with Germany

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Anschluss

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Western portion of Czech

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Sudetenland

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German Empire

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Reich

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Neutrality treaty between Soviet Union and Germany

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Russian-German Treaty of nonaggression

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Nazi Airforce

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Luftwaffe

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Living Space for Aryan

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Lebensraum

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Nazi Tank

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Panzer

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Silent German bombs

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V-2

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“Lightning war”
Bombing by German
War tactic

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Blitzkrieg

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Submarine

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U-boats

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Plan to invade Soviet Union

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Operation Barbarossa

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US policy to British

Supplies for cash

A

Cash and carry

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US policy towards British and Soviet Union

War goods

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Lend and lease

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Japanese suicide bombers

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Kamikaze

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Little boy

Bombed

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Hiroshima

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Fat Man

Bombed

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Nagasaki

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Black’s silent protest

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March of Washington

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Blacks move North

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Great Migration

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Revenge on Japan after Pearl Harbor

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Doolittle Raids

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Surrounded
Starved within
900 days

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Leningrad

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Turning points

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El Alamein
Midway
Stalingrad

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Leader of Bureau if Public Enlightenment

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Joseph Goebbels

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American walk to camps in Philippines

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Batan Death March

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German bombed cities

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Dresden

Berlin

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Q

US Native American Code

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Navajo

53
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Broke Japanese code

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Magic

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German Code

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Enigma

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US won’t sell weapons to warring countries

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Neutrality Act

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Spanish Civil War

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King abdicates
Mussolini and Hitler help
Battle of Guernica

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Ethiopia

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Taken by Italy

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Italian army

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Black Shirts

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Fascist youth

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Black Wolves

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Makes Jews second class citizens

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Nuremberg Laws

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Hitler and SA shoot bar ceiling

Claim start of revolution

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Munich Beer Hall March

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Anti-Hitler newspaper

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Munich Post

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Weak German government

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Weimar Government

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“Stab in the Back”

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Loss of WWI

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Night of Long Knives

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Killing of SA

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Secret police in Germany

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Gestapo

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Beaches of Normandy

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Sword
Gold
Utah
Omaha
Juno
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Ardennes Forest

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Battle of the Bulge

Hitlers last Battle

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War starts

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September 1, 1939

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Pearl Harbor

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December 7, 1941

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D-day

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June 6, 1944

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End of war

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September 2, 1945

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Head of Luftwaffe

A

Goering

74
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Largest concentration camp

In Poland

A

Auschwitz

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