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Haile Selassie

The people in Europe loved Haile Selassie.

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Haile Selassie was crowned emperor in 1930 but exiled during World War II after leading the resistance to the Italian invasion.

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Emperor Hirohito

 The people in Japan loved Emperor Hirohito.

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Hirohito was the 124th Emperor of Japan.

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General Hideki Tojo

The military Listen to General Hideki Tojo.

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He was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army.[image]
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Adolf Hitler

People hated Adolf Hitler because he hated Jews.

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Adolf Hitler was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party.

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Benito Mussolini

Benito Mussolini ruled italy.

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Benito Mussolini was an Italian politician.

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Francisco Franco

The people of Spain hated Francisco Franco.

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He was the ruler of Spain and a military dictator.[image]
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Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill was a British statesman.

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Was a British statesman, army officer, and writer.[image]
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Joseph Stalin

  Some people looked up to Joseph Stalin.

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He was a revolutionary and political leader.[image]
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The big three 

The Big three had pride in themselves and felt that they were good people.

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Josef Stalin, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.[image]
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Allies

The allies are The nations of WW1 and in WW2

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Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States. WW2.[image]
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Axis

The axis were the opposing people from Allies.

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Germany, Italy, and Japan as well as Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia.[image]
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*Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis

The Rome-berlin-Tokyo axis the Three-Power Agreement.

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In Berlin Germany, officials from Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan signed the ten-year Tripartite Pact.[image]
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Atlantic Charter

Atlantic Charter defined the Allied goals for the postwar world.

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The Atlantic Charter was a pivotal policy statement issued during World War II on 14 August 1941, which defined the Allied goals for the postwar world. The leaders of the United Kingdom and the United States drafted the work and all the Allies of World War II later confirmed it.

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Weimer Republic

The Weimer Republic was a failure.

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The Weimar Republic is an unofficial, historical designation for the German state as it existed between 1919 and 1933.[image]
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*Appeasement

My mom uses appeasement on my little sister sometimes. 

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Munich Conference

 People didn't do much at the Munich Conference.

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Settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia.

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Treaty of Versailles

Germany was angry at the treaty of versailles.

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The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.

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Reparations

Germany had reparations.

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The making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money.

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League of Nations

The league of nations wanted to maintain peace but they failed.

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The 14 Points inspired the peoples of the Allied Nations and gave them hope that another great war could be prevented.[image]
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Nazi-Soviet Pact (nonaggression pact)

the nazi-soviet pack was very aggressive to Poland 

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Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact definition. A treaty made by Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939 that opened the way for both nations to invade Poland.

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Lend Lease Act

Lend-lease act was really important.

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means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.

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Attack on Guernica

During the Attack on Guernica, many people died 

 

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The Bombing of Guernica, 1937. The German bombers appeared in the skies over Guernica in the late afternoon of April 26, 1937

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Pearl Harbor

The attack on pearl harbor was a surprise attack.

 

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It was on December 7th, 1941. It was American vs Japan.[image]
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Stalingrad

 St Petersburg is Stalingrad.

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The Battle of Stalingrad was a major confrontation of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia

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D-Day

D-Day refers to the Allied landings in Normandy on 6 June 1944.

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 The “D” is derived from the word "Day". “D-Day” means the day on which a military operation begins. The term "D-Day" has been used for many different operations, but it is now generally only used to refer to the Allied landings in Normandy on 6 June 1944.

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Battle of the Bulge

 The significance of the Battle of the Bulge was that Germany's defeat.

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The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II

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VE Day

 VE day was on Tuesday, May 8.

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V Day, was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's surrender of its armed forces.[image]
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Bataan Death March

There were Filipinos and American prisoners in the bataan death war.

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75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps.[image]
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Battle of Midway

The battle of Midway was located at the Pacific theater.

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The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II which occurred between 4 and 7 June 1942

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Battle of Iwo Jima

The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States was involved.

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Despite its size, Iwo Jima was considered to have great tactical importance.

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Battle of Okinawa

 The battle of Okinawa is also known as Operation Iceberg, took place in April-June 1945

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The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by the United States.

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Hiroshima

Unites States had dropped a bomb on Hiroshima.

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During the final stage of World War II, the United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima on August 6 and 9, 1945.

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Nagasaki

The unites states warn Japan before they bombed Nagasaki.

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Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively.[image]
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Kamikaze Pilots

There was a lot of suicide attacks from the kamikaze pilots.

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where a part of the Japanese Special Attack Units of military aviators who initiated suicide attacks.[image]
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Island Hopping

There one way to do Island Hopping.

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travel from one island to another.[image]
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Blitzkrieg

Blitzkrieg was a new military tactic.

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Germany quickly overran much of Europe and was victorious for more than two years by relying on a new military tactic called the Blitzkrieg.

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Yalta Conference

Yalta Conference is also known as the Crimea conference.

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The February 1945 Yalta Conference was the second wartime meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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Potsdam Conference

Turman stood up in the Potsdam conference. 

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July 1945: Germany had been defeated, Roosevelt had died and Churchill had lost the 1945 election - so there were open disagreements.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II.

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The Cold War was an economic struggle between two world superpowers, the USA and the USSR, that started in 1947.[image]
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NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization also called the North Atlantic Alliance.

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the military alliance between several North American and European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949.

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Warsaw Pact
There are many countries within the Warsaw Pact.
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was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw between the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War.[image]
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