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Nanking Massacre

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Chang vs. Yamamoto (Nanking Massacre)

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“Command Irresponsibility”

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Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

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Mussolini (Italy) invades Abyssinia; League of Nations does nothing to help

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Rhineland

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Occupied by Nazi Germany without
any resistance → Hitler learns he can do anything without Britain+France stopping him

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Alsace-Lorraine

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Colony that Germany had to give up in Treaty of Versailles to France; Occupied again in WWII; Returned back to France after

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Anschluss

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Reason that Austria + Germany united; Annexation of Austria into Nazi, Germany; German army marched in without any resistance

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Sudetenland

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Part of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germans; Neville Chamberlain (Britain) allowed if Hitler promised to stop here → He didn’t

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League of Nations

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Appeasement

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Policy of allowing Hitler’s aggression to avoid war

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Danzig

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City Hitler demanded, leading to Germany’s invasion of Poland.

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Volksdeutsche

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Ethnic / cultural germans living outside Germany; Excuse for Hitler to conquer Europe; To bring ethnic Germans into the Reich

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Maginot Line

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Phony War

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Dunkirk

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Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

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Anti-Comintern Pact

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Agreement between Germany + Japan + Italy against communism; Germany + Japan vs Russia

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Pact of Steel

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Military / political alliance between Nazi Germany + Fascist Italy; Mutual support in case of war

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Luftwaffe

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Operation Sea Lion

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Winston Churchill (WWII)

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Battle of Britain (WWII)

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Royal Air Force (RAF) during WWII

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The Blitz

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Radar

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Stalingrad

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Scorched Earth Tactics

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Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941)

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Battle of Midway

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Battle of El Alamein

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Midway Miracle

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D-Day (June 6, 1044)

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Operation Overlord

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Battle of Normandy

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Dwight Eisenhower

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Bernard Montgomery

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Pearl Harbor (End)

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Omaha Beach

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Tehran Conference

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Yalta Conference

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Potsdam Conference

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Battle of the Bulge

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Harry Truman (End)

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Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima

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Atomic Bombings of Nagasaki

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Dehumanization

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Utilitarianism

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Area / Carpet Bombing

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Bombing of Dresden

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Bombing of Hamburg

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Bombing of Tokyo

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London Blitz

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Incendiary bombing

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Napalm

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“Just War” Theory

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Morale Bombing

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Proportionality of Means

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Norden Bomb Sight

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Heinrich Himmler

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Leader of the SS (Schutzstaffel); One of Hitler’s top Nazi officials; Oversaw the Gestapo (secret police); Architect of the Holocaust - organized concentration camps and mass killings; Believed in racial purity + Aryan supremacy

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Joseph Goebbels

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Hitler’s propaganda minister; Manipulates the public

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Functionalist Argument

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Hitler represented anti-semitism in German society → No clear plan from beginning → Vague leadership let new Nazis do the violence

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Intentionalist argument

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All Hitler’s fault as the “mastermind”; Blames only a few high leaders

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Wannsee Conference

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Meeting of high-ranking Nazis; Decide the final solution: Kill entire Jewish population; Firing squads + gas vans under pretense of relocation; Too much resources used → death camps (efficient killing)

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Comfort Women

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Young women forced into sexual slavery by Japanese (mostly Korean)

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