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belief that if the reasonable demands of dissatisfied states are met, those
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| largest death camp in SW Poland |
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US sunk four Japanese aircraft carriers off Midway, turning point in the
Pacific Theater, the Japanese started a slow retreat that would continue until the end of the war |
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German 6th army captured the city, Red Army then
surrounded the city, May 1943: the starving Germans surrendered |
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| Hitler shifted air attacks from military to civilian targets in GB |
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“lightning war” strategy: rapid fire movement and attacks by planes, tanks,
and an overwhelming number of soldiers |
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Era of extreme tension and mistrust b/w the US and the USSR, dominated
world politics for 45 yrs |
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| labor camps/death camps mainly for Jews |
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led allied forces in the Pacific; Employed a strategy of Island
Hopping |
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| led the Allied invasion of Morocco |
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mobile forces that followed the Ger. army, rounded up Jews and
executed them and buried them in mass graves: 1M Jews were killed |
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led Germanys Afrika Korps “Dessert Fox”; his army controlled most of
N. Africa; The Germans were in Africa to control the Med. Sea, overrun the Brits in
Egypt, gain easy access to the Middle E. Oil Fields; Rommel’s troops surrendered in
Tunisia |
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dismantled the Neutrality Acts
New Deal
“Lend-Lease Act”
Session of Congress, asked for a declaration of war |
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Jews were placed
Jews revolted |
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| Jap. general, prime minister from 1941-1944, opposed female employment |
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| mass slaughter of the Euro. civilians, esp Jews during WWI |
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| conducted first successful atomic bomb test |
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reps. from GB, Fr. and Ger., and Italy met in Munich; led by Brit.
PM Neville Chamberlain, the allies engaged in appeasement; allies agreed to give Hitler
the Sudentland; Hitler promised to not make anymore territorial demands; Chamberlain
returned to GB proclaiming success |
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signed by Ger. and the USSR; promised not to attack
each other, secretly Ger. and the USSR would split up Poland, USSR would also get the
Baltic states, Hitler planned to break the pact later on |
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| led the Munich Conference; British PrimeMinister |
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leaders of Nazi Germany were charged with
waging “wars of aggression”, war crimes and “crimes against humanity” |
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US trade sanctions against Japan incurred it’s wrath; Dec 7 1941 Japan
launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island: headquarters of the US
Pacific Fleet; Japan also attacked Guam, the Philippines, Wake Island, and Euro. colonies
in SE Asia |
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big three met in Potsdam
1) Austria was divided into 4 occupational zones; 2) Truman demanded free elections be held in E. Stalin refused
3) East. border of Ger. was established: Oder-Neisse Line;
4) Ger. were 1expelled from Austria, the Sudetenland and W. Poland;
5) Declaration to Japan to surrender |
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SS officer,
led the Final Solution |
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Ger. took control of N. France, Invasion of Poland
1939 |
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hin strip of land filled in Czechoslovakia w/4M Jews
(Hitler wanted it) |
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FDR, Churchill, Stalin agreed to open a 2nd front
1. Plan to invade Germany (D-day)
2. partition of postwar Germany
3. discussed the creation of the United Nations
4.Stalin
agreed to fight Japan once Ger. was defeated |
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Feb. 1945 the Big three (FDR, Churchill, Stalin) met at Yalta in
Russia
1) the USSR received Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands from Japan;
2) Germany needed to surrender unconditionally;
3) agreed to the official creation of the UN, San Fran. in April to draw up a charter;
4) Germany was to be divided into 4
occupational zones, US, GB, Fr. and USSR,
5. Ger. was to undergo demilitarization and denazification;
6) FDR and Churchill called for free elections in all countries annexed by the Axis powers |
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belief that if the reasonable demands of dissatisfied states are met, those
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