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AP Euro WWII Part Two
World War Two, yo.
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History
10th Grade
03/06/2011

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Auschwitz-Birkenau
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Erwin Rommel
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Also known as "the Desert Fox." German general. Commanded the Africa Korps. Managed to push the British in North Africa deep into Egypt, threatening the Suez Canal. However, in 1942, he was stopped at El Alamein in Egypt by British forces under General Montgomery.
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Big Three
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Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin.
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D-Day Invasion
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The Allied forces' invasion of the French coast at Normandy in 1942. Marked the beginning of the end of Nazi domination of Europe.
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Yalta Conference
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Held among the Big Three in February of 1945. Drew up a plan for the postwar settlement in Europe. Main provisions:
-Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania) would be set up with coalition governments of Communists and non-Communists until free elections could be held.
-Germany would be partitioned into four zones of occupation: American, British, French, and Russian.
-Russia would enter the war against Japan in return for territories in Asia and islands north of Japan.
-A United Nations was set up.
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United Nations
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Created at the Yalta Conference as a successor to the defunct League of Nations, with a General Assembly to represent all member nations in deliberation and a Security Council of fifteen members dominated by five permanent members, the Great Powers- the United States, the USSR, Britain, France, and China- each of which would have veto rights over any proposal for involving the organization in preserving international peace.
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Potsdam Conference
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1945. Attended by Churchill, Stalin, and Harry S. Truman. Issued the Potsdam Declaration, which outlined the terms of surrender for Japan.
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superpowers
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The United States and the USSR.
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Third World
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Iron Curtain
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Division between Soviet-occupied Eastern Europe and the rest of Europe.
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Cold War
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Marshall Plan
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Gave financial aid to any of the countries devastated by World War II that wanted to accept it. The money came in the form of loans that had to be spent on American goods, helping transition economies from wartime to peacetime.
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