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69 Cards in this Set
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3 major axis powers
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germany, japan, and italy
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japan bombed this naval base
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pearl harbor
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term for hitlers war against the jews
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holocaust
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term for the alliesd landings in france
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d-day
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italy's dictator
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mussolini
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english statesman elected to replace chamberlain
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winston churchill
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country that disappeared when the soviet union moved into it in 1939
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poland
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european beaches where the allies landed in 1944
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normandy
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hitler committed suicide in the bvattle for this city
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berlin
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germany's dictator
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hitler
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major allied country taken by hitler in 1940
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france
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terrifying new weapon, 1st used in aug. 6th, 1945
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atomic bomb
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the period of heaviest german bombing of great britain
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battle of britain
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US policy of supplying britain with war materials on credit
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lend-lease
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ethnic group hitler especially despised
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jews
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hitler's attack on this country started WWII
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poland
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1st japanese city hit by the new bomb
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hiroshima
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soviet city, site of tremendous 6 month battle
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stalingrad
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germany's final counterattack against the allies in europe
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battle of the bulge
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hitler's book the bible of the nazi movement
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Mein Kampf
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"lightning war"
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Blitzkrieg
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official policy of the US towards war until 1941
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neutrality
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suicide attacks by bomb-laden Japanese planes
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Kamikaze
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Axis power that was invaded from the south and surrendered in 1943
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italy
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hitler's secret police force
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gestapo
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3 major allies
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USA, USSR, great britain
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vast country germany invaded in 1941 as a violation of 1939 treaty
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soviet union
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new tracking device that located submarines
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sonar
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Allied strategy of capturing some islands and skipping others
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island hopping
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hitler's tite meaning the leader
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der fuhrer
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Allied troops from this french seaport to england, by all boats available
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Dunkirk
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3 allied leading statesmen
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Rooselvelt, churchill, and stalin
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new electronic tracking system that detected incoming aircrafts
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radar
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germany signed a non-agression treaty with this country in 1939
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Soviet union
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Mussolini's title meaning the leader
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il duce
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germany's lower legislative house, site of a fire in 1933
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Reichstag
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the italian and german facists parties were opposed to this
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communism
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conference that now symbolizes appeasement and surrender
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Munich conference
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naton that diappeared from the the map in 1939
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czechoslovakia
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2 strongest nations in the postwar world
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USSR and USA
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type of economy estab. by stalin
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communism
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the national socialist german workers party
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nazis
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belief taught to children in place of religion in USSR
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atheism
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basic principle of fascism
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govt controls everything
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response of britain and france to hitler's aggressive moves in 1936, 1938
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appeasement
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Lebensraum, germany's excuse for expanding its borders
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living space
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war faught by politics
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cold war
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the german-italian alliance
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Rome Berlin axis
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how great britain and US sent supplies to Berlin
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airlift
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general term for govt system that controlled almost every part of peoples daily lives
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totalitarianism
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the Nazi's private army
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brown shirts
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japan went to war with this country in 1937
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China
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treaty that german's deeply resented
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treaty of versailles
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massive construction dividing east and west berlin
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wall
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stalins removal of anyone not loyal to him
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purges
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nation joined to germany in 1938 by anschluss
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Austria
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former nazis were put on trial at
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nuremburg
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descriptive name of the non-physical wall between western and eastern europe
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iron curtain
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govt in which armed forces and police are used to crush opposition
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police state
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independant african country invaded by italy
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Ethiopia
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german area of czechoslovakia
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sudetenland
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number of zones germany and berlin were divided into
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4
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US policy that aimed at restricting the spread of communism
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containment
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northern chinese province inhabited by japan
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manchuria
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british prime minister who gave in to hitler's demands
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neville Chamberlain
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the mutual defense pact of the western nations
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NATO
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the east european military alliance
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warsaw pact
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the european recovery program that provided US aid to europe
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Marshall plan
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term for east european countries dependent on and subordinate to the USSR
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satellites
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