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02/07/2013

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"the Big Three"
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Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt (Truman)
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Adolf Hitler
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leader of germany; mein kampf
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Albert Einstein
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worked on Manhattan Project
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Anachluss
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German Union with Russia, 1938
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Anti-Fascists
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people opposed fascism
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Anti- Semitism
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a hatred of the jews
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Auschwitz
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German death camp for jews, located in Poland
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Austria
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annexed by germany anschluss in 1938
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Bataan Death March
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US and filipino troops captured in Bataan in Phillipines; marched hundreds of miles in harsh conditions
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Battle of Britain
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1st german defeat, British air force defeats germans; Air force, radar, plays a key part
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Battle of Iwo Jima
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island on which US marines victoriously planted the American Flag after  a hard fought battle
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Battle of Midway
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Battle won by Us after they broke japanese secret code, turning point of pacific war.
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Battle of Okinawa
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bloodiest battle of Pacific war; high casualties helped Truman to decide to drop atomic bomb
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Battle of Bulge
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Hitler's last offensive on Western front; high casualties for US and britain
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Battle of Coral Sea
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1st naval battle fought w/o either side seeing each others aircraft carriers
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Benito Mussolini
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fascist dictator of Italy
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Berlin
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German capital-sight of Hitler's bunker.
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Benard Montegomery
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commander of british forces in north africa
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blitzkreig
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"lighting War"
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Brownshirts
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nazi storm trappers; also called SA
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chester Nimitz
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admiral commanding VI fleet in pacific
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Douglas Macarthur
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american general commanding Us army troops in Pacific
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Dwight Eisenhower
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commanding general of allied troops during european war

 

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Enrico Fermi
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worked on Manhattan Project
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Fascism
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during the 20s, Italy adopted this form of gov't
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Francisco Franco
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fascist leader of spain
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FDR
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president of the US
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Genocide
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intentional annihilation of an entire people
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Haile Selassie
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ethiopin leader who concurred, a
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harry s truman
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president who decided to drop the atomic on japan, 1936
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hideki tojo
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japanese military dictator
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hirshima
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at x on which the enola gay dropped an atomic bomd
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holocaust
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the slaughter of jews in europe
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internment
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japanese americans were forced into camps
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island-hopping
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US strategy of seizing only strategic hand-held lands
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isolationism
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the withdrawel from world affairs
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
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worked on Manhattan project
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Joseph Stalin
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leader  of USSR; signed non-aggression pact with Hitler
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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.... war as an instrumentof national policy in 1978
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league of Nations
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lend- lease act
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Manchuria
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Manhattan Project
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Mein Kampf
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Munich conference
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Nagasaki
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Navaho Indians
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Nazis
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Neutrality Acts
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Neville Chamberlain
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Non aggression Pact
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Normandy
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