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| Independent African country invaded by Italy |
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| Northern Chinese province occupied by Japan |
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| Conference that now symbolizes appeasement and surrender |
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| Territory on the French side of the Rhine River invaded by Hitler |
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| Response of Britain and France to Hitler's aggressive moves in 1936 and 1938 |
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| How the League of Nations reacted to Japanese aggression |
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| Japan went to war with this country in 1937. |
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| Emperor of Ethiopia who asked for League protection |
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| Nations that withdrew from the League in the 1930s |
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| Official policy of the Western democracies toward the Spanish civil war |
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| Nation joined to Germany in 1938 by Anschluss |
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| German area of Czechoslovakia |
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| British prime minister who gave in to Hitler's demands |
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| Nation that disappeared from the map in 1939 |
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| "Lebensraum, Germany's excuse for expanding its borders" |
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| The German-Italian alliance |
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| International treaty rejecting war as a way to settle disputes |
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| The League's reaction to Italy's aggression in Africa |
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| the Versailles Treaty (ending WWI) |
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| Treaty that Germans deeply resented |
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| the Nationalists and Loyalists (or Republicans) |
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| The two opposing sides in Spain's civil war |
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| """Hands-off"" foreign policy favored by many Americans in the 1930s" |
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| "Germany, Italy, and Japan" |
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| The three major Axis powers |
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| English statesman elected to replace Chamberlain |
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| Major Allied country taken by Hitler in June 1940 |
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| General Charles de Gaulle |
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| Leader of the French fighters |
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| Germany signed a nonaggression treaty with this country in 1939. |
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| Strip of Polish territory that cut through Germany |
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| Hitler's attack on this country started World War II. |
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| "Hitler's tactic of ""lightning war""" |
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| "Great Britain, U.S.A., U.S.S.R., China (plus France)" |
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| Two Scandinavian countries invaded by Hitler in April 1940 |
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| "the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg" |
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| The three Low Countries taken by Hitler in May 1940 |
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| "Allied troops withdrew from this French seaport to England, by all boats available." |
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| The French group that continued to fight the Germans |
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| Two Western nations that were defensive allies of Poland |
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| "Free city on the Baltic Sea open to Poland, desired by Germany" |
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| Germany's line of defense in the Rhineland |
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| Country that disappeared when the Soviet Union moved into it in 1939 |
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| The only country to be expelled from the League of Nations for aggression |
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| "the ""phony war"" or Sitzkrieg (""sitting war"")" |
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| Term for the nearly actionless early days of the war |
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| "Term for the countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania taken by the Soviets in 1940" |
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| The U.S.S.R. was expelled from the League of Nations for invading this Scandinavian country |
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| the Petain (or Vichy) government |
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| The French government under Hitler |
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| Official policy of the United States toward the war until 1941 |
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| Vast country Germany invaded in 1941 in violation of 1939 treaty |
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| "Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin" |
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| The three leading Allied statesmen who met often during the war's years |
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| Term for Hitler's war against the Jews |
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| European beaches where the Allies landed in 1944 |
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| The period of heaviest German bombing of Great Britain |
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| Fighting unit that successfully defended Great Britain |
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| "Germany's general in North Africa, the ""Desert Fox""" |
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| Chief British general in North Africa |
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| Supreme commander of the Allied forces in Europe |
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| "Soviet city, site of tremendous six-month battle" |
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| New tracking device using sound waves that located submarines |
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| New electronic tracking system that detected incoming aircraft |
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| Term for the day of Allied landings in France |
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| Term for the day of victory in Europe |
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| Hitler committed suicide during the battle for this city. |
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| Hitler's plan to invade and conquer the British Isles |
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| U.S. policy of supplying Britain with war materials on credit |
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| Egyptian site where the British stopped the German advance |
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| Germany's final counterattack against the Allies in Europe |
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| Axis power that was invaded from the south; it surrendered in 1943 |
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| "When Japan bombed this naval base, the United States entered the war." |
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| Island continent threatened by the Japanese |
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| Large ships that were seagoing air bases |
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| General Douglas MacArthur |
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| U.S. commander in the Pacific |
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| "Terrifying new weapon first used on August 6, 1945" |
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| First Japanese city hit by the new weapon |
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| Suicide attacks by bomb-laden Japanese planes |
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| Second Japanese city hit by the new bomb |
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| "V-J Day (September 2, 1945)" |
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| The day Japan signed surrender documents |
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| Island group secured for the Allies by the Battle of Leyte Gulf |
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| Allied strategy of capturing some islands and skipping others |
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| "Southern island of the Solomons, site of an airfield and fierce fighting" |
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| Alaskan islands where Japan landed |
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| Crucial battle near Hawaii that turned back the Japanese |
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| the Battle of the Coral Sea |
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| Sea battle that stopped the Japanese thrust toward Australia |
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| Two American outposts captured by Japan in 1941-2 |
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| Region north of China taken from Japan by the Soviet Union in 1945 |
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| Japan's slogan to keep Asia out of western control |
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| the Netherlands East Indies |
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| Dutch island colony taken by Japan |
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| French colony that became a Japanese protectorate |
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| Japan's great naval strategist |
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