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WWII Review Flashcards

Review for World War II in Europe Test

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The Treaty of Versailles

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The Treaty at the end of World War I

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Weimar Republic

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Kellogg-Briand Pact

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disarmament of Germany war is a political tool

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Totalitarianism

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total rule and with a iron fist

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Communism

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not publicly or privately 0wned everything is shared

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Fascism

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Nazism

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The new political party of Germany and beliefs of Adolf Hitler

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Isolationism

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To stay alone and out of foreign affairs

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The Rhineland

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Austrian province that Hitler wanted

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The Anschluss

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The Sudentenland

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land in Czechoslovakia that alot of German speaking people lived in

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The Munich Conference

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the conference that allowed Germany to take the Sudetenland

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Appeasement

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to bring peace quiet contentment to an enemy

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Non-Aggression Pact

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a agreement of none fighting

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Neville Chamberlain

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british prime minister who talked to Hitler about no conflict

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Winston Churchill

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british Prime minster who served through the rest of the war

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Adolph Hitler

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Nazi Germanys new dictator and over all powder keg of ww2

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Benito Mussolini

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Italy’s fascist leader

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Josef Stalin

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Communist leader of the Soviet Union

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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President of the United states

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The Neutrality Laws

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laws made by the us government to stay out of foreign affairs

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“Cash and Carry”

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Americans way of giving Britain arms by having the Britaish pay for armaments and “carry” them back to GB

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The Axis Powers

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Germany, Japan, Italy entered an alliance to rule the world

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Sept. 1st 1939

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German Invasion of Poland

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Poland

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Slavic speaking country , a.k.a. “Little Brother to USSR

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Latvia/Lituania/Estonia

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Eastern European countries invaded and allied to the Axis Powers

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The Phony War

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The movement of troops before the actual fighting

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Tha Maginot Line

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France’s largest defense against Germany. Destroyed by the Blitzkrieg

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Dunkirk

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British and French retreat to the beaches of Dunkirk, while German’s were in pursuit. Churchill sent a country wide message to rescue the troops off the beaches

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Vichy France

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Headquarters of the French REsistance

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Marshal Petain

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Leader of the French forces, and then leader of the French Resistance

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The Luftwaffe

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Germany ‘s main air force

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The RAF

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Britain’s Royal Air Force

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The Battle of Britain

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A air superiority war between RAF and the Luftwaffe

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The Spitfire

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Britain’s main fighter aircraft

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The BF 109

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Luftwaffe’s best fighter

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Radar

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Britain’s design in tracking enemy aircraft

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Enigma

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Type of code Germany used to code messages to their generals

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Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

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Main commanding general in North African campaign, aka “the Desert Fox”

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The Afrika Korps

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Germany’s new fighting group in Africa

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Tobruk

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Major port city in Egypt

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El Alamein

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Major battle between the German’s and the British, in Egypt

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Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery

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New commanding general of the British Desert forces

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Operation Barbarossa

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Hitlers ambitious plan to attack USSR

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Stalingrad

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Major battle that was a failure for the German’s. 900,000 German prisoners.

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Kursk

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Lend Lease

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The Atlantic Charter

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Pearl Harbor

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Dec. 7th 1941

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Rationing

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Rosie the Riveter

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Operation Torch

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Dwight D Eisenhower

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George S Patton

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The Kasserine Pass

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The Invasion of Sicily (Sept 1943- Aug 1944)

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King Victor Emmanuel III

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B17 Flying Fortress

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Anti-Semitism

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The Holocaust

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The Final Solution

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Death Camps

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The Tehran Conference

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Operation Overlord

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June 6th 1944

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Amphibious Invasion

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The Atlantic Wall

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“Fortress Wall”

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The D-Day Invasion

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Normandy

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Omaha

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Utah

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Gold

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Sword

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Juno

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Cherbourg

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V-1

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V-2

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The Ardennes

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The 101st Airborne Division

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Bastogne

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General Anthony McAuliffe

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“Nuts”

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The Yalta Conference

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Admiral Karl Doenitz

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VE Day

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May 8th 1945

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