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63 Cards in this Set
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Fascism |
Authoritarian rule-government is above all |
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Benito Mussolini |
Starts the Facist Party 1922 becomes Prime Minister of Italy Organized the "Black Shirts" Executed in 1945 |
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Black Shirts |
Terrorist group that influenced power by force |
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II Duce |
Benito's nickname |
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Weimar Republic |
New (post) WWI government |
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Adolph Hitler |
Germany's lost WWI problems: 1. Dislike leadership 2. War-Guilt Clause 3. Disastrous Economy |
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NAZI |
(1933-1945) - National Socialist German Workers Party |
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Mein Kampf |
(My Struggle) - a book explaining Hitler's goals/ideology |
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What were Hitlers beliefs to revive Germany? |
1. Nationalism 2. Expand Country 3. Eliminate Inferior Races 4. Strong leadership |
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Fuhrer |
A ruthless leader |
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Third Reich |
An empire whose goal was to dominate Europe for 1,000 years |
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German Aggression |
1. Rebuilds Military 2. Sends troops into the Rhineland (1936) 3. Anschluss |
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Gestapo |
A secret police whose goal was to root out opposers |
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Nuremberg Laws |
Laws prohibiting Jews 1. Marrying non-Jews 2. Attending German schools 3. Holding government jobs 4. Publishing books |
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Kristallnacht |
A nazi attack on Jews |
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Anschluss |
Forced Union with Austria |
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Munich Pact |
September 30, 1938 1. France and Britain negotiate a peace agreement with Germany 2. Germany allowed to have to Sudetenland/Europe gets peace
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Neville Chamberlain |
Prime minister of G.B before the war |
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Appeasement |
Policy of giving in to an aggressors demands to keep peace |
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Sudetenland |
Germany marches in |
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Axis Powers |
Germany, Italy, Japan |
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Allied Powers |
G.B., France, U.S. |
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Nazi-Soviet Pact |
1. Russia and Germany agree not to attack each other 2. Russia and Germany agree to divide up additional European Nations
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Date of the start of WWI |
September 1, 1939 |
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Date of the start of Pear Harbor |
December 7,1941 |
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Battle of Dunkirk |
1. May 26 - June 4, 1940 2. 338,000 soldiers rescued 3. Established the "Dunkirk Spirit" in Britain |
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Battle of Britain |
1. July 9 - October 31, 1940 2. Germany Luftwaffe vs. British Royal Air Force 3. First significant mistake for butler was not to defeat Britain |
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Luftwafe |
An Air Force |
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Royal Air Force |
Warfare force |
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Pearl Harbor |
1. Japanese attack on Hawaii (Oahu) 2. 2,403 dead, 1,178 wounded 3. Destroyed: 5 battleships, 3 destroyers, 3 cruisers, 188 planes |
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Big three |
Winston Churchill FDR Joseph Stalin |
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Franklin Roosevelt |
American President during WWII |
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Winston Churchill |
Prime minister of Britain during WWII |
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Joseph Stalin |
Leader of the Soviet Union |
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Total War |
Mobilizing all resources of a nation to defeat the enemy |
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Rose Riveter |
Represents the American Woman who worked in factories and shipyards during WWII |
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Victory Gardens |
Home gardens planted to increase food production during war |
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Nisei |
Language used to specify the children born in the new country to Japanese-born immigrants |
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Internment camps |
Detention centers for civilians considered enemies of the state |
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Eisenhower |
Commander of the Allied forces in Europe Nickname: "Ike" Placed in charge of Normandy (D-day) Invasion President of U.S. |
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Rommel |
German commander in North Africa and Normandy Nickname: "desert fox" Suspected in a plot to kill hiter in 1944 |
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Bernard Montgomery |
British army officer in charge of ground forces in El Alamein and Normandy |
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General Douglas MacArthur |
Played a role in the pacific theatre during WWII |
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Harry Truman |
President 1944-1953 |
Authorized the use of nuclear bombs |
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Robert Oppenheimer |
Professor of physics at the University of California |
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Rainbow plan |
Allies focus on Germany first and Japan second |
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Cross-channel invasion |
Roosevelt |
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Soft Underbelly |
Churchill |
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Battle of the Bulge |
The last major offensive by German forces Bloodiest of battles for American forces |
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Battle of Normandy (D-Day) |
June 6,1944 Operation Overlord Largest sea borne invasion in history |
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Operation overload |
Code name for the battle of Normandy |
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Nuremberg Trials |
The defendants, were indicated on such charges on crimes against peace and crimes against humanity |
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War in the pacific: island hopping |
MacArthur Island hopping was the strategy |
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Kamikaze |
Suicide attacks |
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Battle of Iwo jima |
Feb-March 1945 Wanted for airfields First U.S. Attacks on Japanese home islands |
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Battle of oninawa |
Largest amphibious assault in the pacific Last major battle of the war |
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The Manhattan Project |
The project to develop the first atomic bomb |
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Enola Gay |
First plane to drop atomic bomb |
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Paul Tibbets |
Pilot of Enola Gay |
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Fat man |
Nagasaki |
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Little hoy |
Hiroshima |
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V-E Day |
Victory in Europe May 8, 1945 |
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V-J Day |
August 14-15, 1945 Gen MacArthur signs as the supreme allied commander of the pacific theater during formal surrender ceremonies in Tokyo Bay |
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