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Geiger chapter 18 Vocabulary
World History
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History
9th Grade
11/13/2012

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Containment
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Meant limiting communism to the areas already under Soviet control
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Battle of the Bulge
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Battle that represented Hitler's last success in the war.
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Truman Doctrine
Definition
Truman outlined the policy of American resistance to Soviet expansion in the_______.
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Warsaw Pact
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The alliance among the Soviet Union and 7 satellite states in Eatern Europe
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V-E Day
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Day the ware officially ended in Europe.
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Battle of the Coral Sea
Definition
Battle that helped stop the Japanese advance in the Pacific.
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Holocaust
Definition
Name given to the Nazi massacre of more than 6 million Jews
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Greater East Asia Co-Preosperity Sphere
Definition
Name of the plan to establish a Japanese empire in Asia
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Kamikazes
Definition
Japanese pilots who undertook suicide missions to try to save their homeland
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El Alamein
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Battle the British stopped Rommel's advance
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NATO
Definition
Alliance among the United States, Canada, and nine Western European countries
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Battle of Stalingrad
Definition
Battle the Soviets defeated the Germans
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Atlantic Charter
Definition
Charter issued by Roosevelt band Churchill that set goals for the war and for the postwar world.
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Blitzkrieg
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"Lightning War" waged by the Germans
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Operation Barbarossa
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The German plan to conquer the Soviet Union
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Lend-Lease Act
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Act that allowed Roosevelt to sell or lend war materials to certain nations.
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Pearl Harbor
Definition
Japanese bombing of this American base lead to United States involvement in World War II.
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