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History Final
Final on 6.14.07 - Ch. 18-24
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History
10th Grade
06/13/2007

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Haile Selassie
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The Ethiopian king who appealed to the League of Nations for help when they were attacked by Italy
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Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
Definition
The Axis powers agreed to fight Soviet communism in this agreement
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Guernica
Definition
A small Spanish town attacked by German bombers as an experiment
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Munich Conference
Definition
British and French leaders chose appeasement to Hitler's demands at this meeting
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Neville Chamberlain
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The British prime minister who falsely told the people of England peace had been achieved
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Nazi-Soviet Pact
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This bound Hitler and Stalin to peaceful relations
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Sanction
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penalties
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Appeasement
Definition
Giving in to demands of an aggressor to keep peace
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Pacifism
Definition
Opposition to all war
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Anschluss
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The union of Austria and Germany
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"Phony War"
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During this war, the British and French waited for an attack by Hitler that never came
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Dunkirk
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A beach where the British sent boats in order to save there troops from a German air-raid
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Winston Churchill
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Replaced Chamberlain as prime minister and stood up against the Nazi threat
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Battle of Britain
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Hitler's failed attempt to capture this nation through air strikes
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Operation Barbarossa
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Hitler's failed conquest of the Soviet Union
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Lend-Lease Act
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Proposed by FDR so he could "sell or lend war materials to any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States"
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Pearl Harbor
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An American port attacked by Japan that caught the United States by surprise
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Blitzkrieg
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"Lightning war" where German planes would bomb stuff
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Radar
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Used to detect airplanes
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Sonar
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Used to detect submarines
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Holocaust
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A time period where thousands of Jews and other minority groups were prosecuted by the Nazis
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Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
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Japan's self-proclaimed mission to help Asians escape western colonial rule and in doing so create a Japaneses empire
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Battle of El Alamein
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The long, fierce battle where the British stopped the enemy from advancing in Egypt
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Battle of Stalingrad
Definition
The costly battle where the tables where turned on Hitler when Stalin's army defeated the Nazis
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D-Day
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This day was June 6,1944 and the day of the Allies failed invasion of France
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Genocide
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Deliberate murder
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Collaborator
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A person who cooperates with the enemy
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Reparations
Definition
Payment for damages caused by the imprisonment
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Battle of the Coral Sea
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A battle where the US severely damaged Japans navel power and stopped their advances
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Battle of the Bulge
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A bloody, month-long battle that was Hitler's last success even though it delayed Allied advances
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V-E Day (Victory in Europe)
Definition
This was the day after WWII and was May 8, 1945
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Harry Truman
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The American president after FDR who decided to set off the atomic bomb on Japan
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"Island-Hopping"
Definition
The US campaign that was used to recapture some Japanese-held islands while bypassing others
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Kamikaze
Definition
Japanese pilots who undertook suicide missions
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United Nations (UN)
Definition
The group devoted to keeping world peace and setting up agencies to better others' lives
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"Iron Curtain"
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The nickname for the division of Europe that was a symbol of the Cold War
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Truman Doctrine
Definition
The doctrine that supports free people resisting the attempted subjugation of armed minorities or outside pressures
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Berlin Airlift
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The response to Stalin's blockade by sending cargo planes to West Berliners with food and fuel
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Definition
The military alliance that pledged to help one another if any one of them was attacked
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Warsaw Pact
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The Soviet Union's military alliance that was used as a weapon to keep their satellites in order
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Containment
Definition
Limiting communism to the areas already under Soviet control
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Satellites
Definition
Dependent states
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