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Social Studies Pace 1094
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History
8th Grade
04/11/2011

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was the National Socialist German Worker's Party
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Nazi Party
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was the basis of President Roosevelt's programs
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socialistic philosophy
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consisted of Japan, Germany, and Italy
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Axis Powers
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Included England, United States, U.S.S.R.
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Allied nations
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was a plan by Adolf Hitler to kill all the Jews in Europe.
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Holocaust
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directed the killing of 6,000,000 Jews.
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Adolf Hitler
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was the battle that took away Japanese threat of attacking Hawaii
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Battle of Midway
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included six naval battles and eight months jungle fight
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Guadalcanal
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was Adolf Hitler's empire planned to last one thousand years
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Third Reich
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was the name for Japanese air force suicide missions
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Kamikaze
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was the greatest naval battle in history
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Battle of Leyt Gulf
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was the second city destroyed by by atomic bomb
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Nagasaki
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was a new German military maneuver
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blitzkrieg
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Americans dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima _____ on August 6, 1945.
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Japan
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On August 14, 1945, the Japanese ended the war by surrendering ________ to the allies.
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unconditionally
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the final surrender agreement between Japan and the ________ was signed on the battleship U.S.S. Missouri.
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Allies
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_______ became a nation on May 14, 1948
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Israel
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An insurance program designed to provide a small income to retired workers and aid to dependents of those workers who died before collecting benefits was what social _____ was meant to be.
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security
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The United States has increasingly become a nation of citizens who depend on ________ since New Deal days.
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government
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The Allied forces took control of the North ______ shores when U.S. General Eisenhower's command moved eastward, and British General Montgomery pushed west from Egypt.
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African
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On June 4, 1944,after many bloody conflicts, _____ soldiers entered the city of Rome and were greeted as heroes by the Italians.
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American
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On March 7, 1945, American troops began moving across the ________ River at Remagen on the only bridge still standing.
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Rhine
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Securing Leyte Gulf was the first objective in gaining control of the _____.
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Philippines
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The Japanese turned toward the _______, located about 1,000 miles northwest of Hawaii, after driving the Americans out of the Philippines.
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Midway islands
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The _______ had lost 8,000 planes and over 100,000 troops, while the Americans had lost 12,000 men when the battle of Okinawa was over.
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Japanese
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Much of _______ was destroyed in an instant, and the rest of the city was badly damaged when the first atomic bomb was dropped.
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Hiroshima
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Franklin D. Roosevelt served more than ______, the longest time any man has been President of the United States.
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twelve years
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Since ________ believed that he federal government could send America back to prosperity, his administration had many government spending programs.
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president Roosevelt
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The three functions of government as laid out in the Constitution are: a)The protection of ___________. b)The promotion of general _______. c)The provision for a common ______.
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a)citizens
b)welfare
c)defense
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Benito Mussolini, the founder of the __________ Party, became prime minister and dictator of Italy in 1922.
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Fascist
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That Germans were the "master race," and were stronger, more intelligent, and more skillful than any other race was what ________ believed.
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Adolf Hitler
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Two causes of World War 2 were: a)The bitter feelings that resulted from ______________. b)The extreme ______ spirit that existed in many nations.
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a)World War 1
b)nationalistic
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Two additional causes of World War 2 were: a)The ________ conditions. b)Man's evil nature and _____.
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a)economic
b)pride
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The Fuhrer's fatal mistake was deciding to turn on his _____ ally instead of invading _________.
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Soviet . . . England
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World War 2 for ________ began on December 7, 1941
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the United States
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The huge invasion of ________, France, on June 6, 1944, D-Day, was called Operation Overlord.
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Normandy
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With the aid of General Patton's Fourth Armored Division, the American soldiers survived the battle of _______.
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Bastogne
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__________ became the thirty-third President of the United States when Franklin D. Roosevelt died.
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Harry S. Truman
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The date of the formal end of World War 2 in Europe was ________.
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May 8, 1945
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