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World War II
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History
10th Grade
06/01/2011

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Anschluss
Definition

March 1938 - annex entire countrry, political union of Austria = protectorate

 

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D-Day
Definition

June 6, 1941

land millions of troops on flat beaches in Northern France - attacked by Germans

Aug. 1944 - take Paris back

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Nuremberg Laws
Definition

1935

- deny citizenship and political rights (Jews)

- establish ghetto system, physically separate

- end "mixed" marriages

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Nanjing
Definition

December 1937

mass murder and rape of Chinese women and children by Japanese soldiers

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OVRA
Definition
(1926) - secret police = eliminate opposition & monitor anti-facist
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Generation of the Front
Definition

WWI veterans, anti-pacifist, reactionaries

restore the good old days

attracted to facism

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Gulags
Definition
forced labor camp in Serbia where Stalin sent his opposition
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Kristallnacht
Definition

November 9, 1938

"Night of Broken Glass"

average Germans & Austrian

destoryed 190 jewish bis., homes, synouages

begining of Nazi agenda

500 years of Anti-Semetism in one night

(Martin Luther)

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Lebensraum
Definition

need more "living space" for population

territority = power

wanted Poland, Russia - modern slaves

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Jerusalem Trials
Definition

15 years later

1961 - Eirhman, second set of Nazi leaders

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Potsdam
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  1. divided Germany into 4 parts (actually two) USA, FR, GB, USSR - Free Captalism W & Communist E
  2. divided the capital Berlin - still want influence (1945-89) Bonn = West Capital
  3. Nazi Leaders - Nuremberg Trials '45-9 - UN : Court of International Justice (CIJ)
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Battle of Britain
Definition

summer of 1940-1 = aerial battle

London bombed continously

cracked German code - protect London

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Churchill
Definition

replaces Chamberlain 1940

different policy than appeasement

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Phony War
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Sept. 1939 - April 1940

nothing happens, waiting

ends when Germany takes Denmark & Norway

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Lend Lease Act
Definition

US Congress (1941) provided extension of credit, weapons, supplies to GB gov't

- all materials to stay in war

"keep GB in= keep USA out" - isolationism

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Hitler-Stalin Pact
Definition
1939 - nonagression agreement, alliance, split Poland in half, and not invade each others' land
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Great Purge
Definition
1936-8 "cleansing" elimination of old Bolsheviks - pre1917 communist, sent 10,000,000 to gulags, Trotsky assainated in Mexico
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Yatla Conference
Definition
1945 Big Three (FDR, Stalin, Churchill),
- defeat, demilitarize, denazify, democratize
- free open election in Central/ Eastern (doesnt happen b/c Stalin refuses to leave conquered territories)
- defeat Japan
- League of Nation replaced by UN
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