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World History II Id's
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50
History
11th Grade
05/21/2011

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December 7, 1941
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"A day that will live in Infamy"
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Operation torch
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North African operation
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Operation overlord
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D-Day Invasion
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Erwin Rommel
Definition
German Tank commander
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Zyklon-B
Definition
Gas used to kill jews in the holocaust
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Hiroshima
Definition
Japanese military center hit by little boy
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Harry Truman
Definition
FDR's Vice president
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Douglass MacArthur
Definition
Allied general in charge of the pacific front
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Nagasaki
Definition
Japanese city hit by fat man
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Henri Philippe Petain
Definition
WWI hero in charge of Vichy France
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Kristallnacht
Definition
Hitlers order to destroy Jew's property in the night just because of hatred
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Sitzkrieg
Definition
Britain and Germany were at war but no fighting occured
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Cominform
Definition
Organization that coordinated worldwide communist policies and peograms
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NATO
Definition
Military alliance between the US and Western European Nation
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Stalin's Successor
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Lyndon Johnson
Definition
Given "the powers to take necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the US and to prevent further aggression"
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38th Parallel
Definition
Dividng line in Korea
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David Lange
Definition
Prime Minister of New Zealand who pushed for international independence
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Clement Attlee
Definition
Under his leadership, Great Britain became a welfare state
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Charles de Gaulle
Definition
French president that ushered a Fifth Republic
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Pierre Trudeau
Definition
Prime Minister of Canada, helped sever Canada's relationship with Britain
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E. Gough Whitlam
Definition
Prime Minister of Australia, removed from office that damaged US- Australian relations
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17th Parallel
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dividing line in vietnam
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Ho Chi Minh
Definition
got the north part of vietnam in the split
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Containment
Definition
the US would do everything necessary to keep communism from expanding in Europe and Asia
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Truman doctrine
Definition
give Greece and Turkey 400 million dollars so they could resist communism
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Marshall Plan
Definition
said all americans should be able to give economic assistance to any European countries
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Berlin Airlift
Definition
the US, Britain, and France airlifted over 2 million tons of supplies to west Berlin
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Sunni/Shia
Definition
The Sunni believe the Muhammad didnt leave someone to control after he died and the Shi'a believe that he did leave someone to take control
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Taliban
Definition
took control during the afghan revolution and were worse than the previous rulers
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Hazaras
Definition
Spoke Farsi and were Turkish
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Zionism
Definition
belief that Jewish people should have Israel as the sovereign land
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Ahimsa
Definition
Non violence
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Beneir Bhutto
Definition
prime minister of Pakistan and was the first woman to be in power in an islamic state
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Salt March
Definition
Britian took over India's large production of salt and Indians marched to sea
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Indiria Gandhi
Definition
ruled in india and was the daughter of Nehru. She was found guilty of illegal campaigning which caused her to have no believers executed. She regained a seat in Parliament
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General Zia ul Haq
Definition
president of pakistan who tried to forge a secular state
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Collectivization
Definition
Russia's economic policty- 5 year plans
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Mein Kampf
Definition
Expressed Hitler's hatred of Jews and communist; outlined Nazism
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Leon Trotsky
Definition
Leader of the Red Army during the Red and White civil war
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Kato Komei
Definition
Increased militarism in Japan
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Blut and Boden
Definition
Key to Nazi theory that reflected the importance of peasents
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corporatism
Definition
Italy's economic system
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FDR
Definition
His goal was to save capitalism in America
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Haro Takashi
Definition
Assassinated by a disgruntled railroad worker in 1922
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Hindenburg
Definition
Beat Hitler in the 1932 presidential election
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Totalitarianism
Definition
the dictator or person in control, controls everything in that country
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Great Depression
Definition
America faced their first dip in the stock market and people sold stocks which made it dip more and the stock market crashed
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New Economic Policy
Definition
policy in Russia that helped the lower and middle class become more stable
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Fascism
Definition
believed that terror and education had to be used to inform people of their leader
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