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Controlling all aspects of life

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Totalitarian

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Giving in to demands to keep peace

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Appeasement

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Political party that believes race or ethnicity is more important then the individual

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Fascist

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Swift, all out style of military attack

Lightning war

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Blitzkrieg

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Believing that the US should go to war

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Interventionism

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Believing that the US should stay out of war

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Isolationism

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Technology allowing detection of submerged objects by means of sound waves

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Sonar technology

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Surrender without concessions

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Unconditional surrender

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Il duce

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The leader

Mussolini

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Nazi

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National socialist german workers party

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Aryan

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Hitlers master race

Blood hair blue eyes german

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Von Hindenburg

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Prez of Germany before hitler

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Mein kampf

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My struggle by Hitler

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Fuhrer

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Hitler

Supreme leader of the third reich

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Third reich

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Third Government

Under hitlers control

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“Big Lie”

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How hitler view christianity and democracy because they lied all the time

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Anschluss

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Union of Germany and Austria

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Luftwaffe

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German air force

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Open door policy

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Equal trading access with china

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Pearl S. Buck

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Author of good earth, sympathy from china routed from the love of her

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Neutrality act

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Prohibiting sale of weapons to nations at war, kept Americans from traveling on ships to waring countries, passed after Italy took Ethiopia

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Maginot Line

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A system of heavily armed steel and concrete bunkers built after WWI, stretches 100 miles along the french german border, from Belgium to Switzerland. Germans attacked from behind and were defeated

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RAF

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British Royal Air Force

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Sea Lion

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German plan for attacking Great Britain

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Destroyer for bases
US gave Great Britain ships and in return they got bases in the Atlantic
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Conscription
Draft in US before war
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Greer, Kearny, REUBAN JAMES
Destroyers destroyed by German subs (U boats)
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Ultra
Decoder of german messages during battle of britain
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Radar
Detected planes
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Sonar
Detected ships and subs
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Magic
Message decoder of Japanese messages
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Allies (leaders and countries)
Great Britain- Churchill France- Charles DeGaulle US- FDR China- Mao Zedong
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Axis (leaders and countries)
Germany- Adolf Hitler Italy- Mussolini Japan- Hirohito
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What Country was with Axis then switched to Allies
USSR
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Attack weapons
German panzer-tanks, US tanks, planes, ships
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Defense weapons
Radar, sonar, anti aircraft guns
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Eisenhower
Supreme Allie Commander, in charge of D Day,
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SS nickname
Black shirts
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Good Neighbor Policy- reasons for
Reason US wanted to be a good neighbor to the countries by them before ones across ocean, FDRs pledge- respect rights of others, initiated by prez hoover- try to get along. So we could show our dedication to get along
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Yamamoto
Japan | Planned attack on Pearl Harbor- reluctant warrior
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MacArthur
US | Developed island hopping; accepted surrender of Japan
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Patton
US | Nickname- "Old Blood and Guts"
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Goering (Goring)
Germany | In charge of Luftwaffe
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Nimitz
US | Proved value of magic
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Barbie
Germany | Head of Gestapo- one of the people who tortured people
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Rommel
Germany | Nickname desert fox
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Yamashita
Japan | Tiger of Malaya
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Bradley
US | Led troops on Omaha and Utah beaches
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Montgomery
Great Britain | Defeated Rommel in Africa
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Arnold
US | Defender of women air service pilots
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Franco
Fascist military leader, attempted to overthrow Spanish government in 1936, aided by Germany and Italy, conservative, pro anarchy, rebel, spanish army
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Non-aggression pact
USSR and Germany promise not to attack each other hitler lies, they also promise to divide up poland
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D-Day (date; codename; what the attack enabled)
Operation Over lord Changed course of war June 6,1944 Pushed back Germany. A stronger hold for the allies
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Why did the US not pay attention to hitler before 1934?
He had to focus on getting out of the Great Depression not hitlers problems
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Causes of WWI
Treaty of Versailles because Germany is so down Fascist Aggression- 3 in Europe 1 in Asia Appeasement- not stopping Hitler
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Lindenbergh
Isolationist
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Ford
Gave money to Germany | Paid the elders of Zion to sign on protocols that were printed and distributed in the US
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Lend-Lease
Proposed by FDR after the 1940 election which gave hime the right to sell, lend, or lease military supplied to any nation deemed "vital to the defense of US"
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Selective Training and service act
In September 1940, prez Roosevelt sign act establishing a peace time draft in the US
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Pearl harbor- date
December 7,1941 | Japan attacked US, brought US into war, greatest military disaster till 9/11
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What event started WWII in Europe
Germanys invasion of poland
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Stalingrad (nickname)
Operation Barbarossa USSR Vs. Germany Stalingrad, Moscow, Leningrad 14 mil died turning point germany is defeated by general winter
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Atlantic charter
FDR lent the USSR supplies and met British prime minister Churchill on a boat off Newfoundland to develop a post war strategy
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Jews
Blamed for economic problems
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Why Germany takes Paris- French response
Wanted to save their city from carnage. Because hitler had done that in the past
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Advantage Great Britain had over Germany
Better skilled planes men
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Invasion of Ethiopia by Italy
First invasion before poland
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Spanish civil war
Franco, fascists taking over | Italy and Germany helped because political ties and they wanted to test out their new technology
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El Alamein
Montgomery defeated Rommel in Africa. Showed Germany wasnt as strong as expected
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Bombing of london(why daylight bombings stopped)
Because Germanys 3-1 air force was no match for the skill of the RAF that would shot them down so night time to keep from being seen and be more destructive
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1936 olympics
Jessie Owens out does the aryans | US beats Germany
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Hitler(what he wanted to study; justification for 1934 murders; third reach; who compared to; mein kampf; reasons for rise to power)
Wanted to study art Said murders were to better Germany and unit leaders behind Hitler Compared to Genghis Kahn My struggle- by Hitler Rose to power because bad economy good orator-how he spoke enabled people

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