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12th Grade
08/01/2012

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Blockade
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Blocking a a route
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Panzar
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German Tanks
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Collaberationist
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Workin with enemy force
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Quizling
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term used to descrie a person who co operates with an enemy occupying his or her country
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Ultra
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Decoding Machine
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Fighter Command
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Move around fighter planes, distrubte accordly, headquaters
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Wehrmacht
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German Army
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phoneywar
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period of WW2 after poland was invaded 1939-1940 when nothing happened
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Maginot Line
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Fortifications,Barrier, guns pointed at germany
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Operation Sealion
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Hitler's plan to invade Britain, wasn't sucessful because British used Radar, Ultra, Strategic error for germany, stopped bombing the important parts such as fighter bases+radar staions to civilian, German pilots less battle time. Shot down RAF pilots could rejoin war. June,1940
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Why did Stalin want to control some Finnish territory
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Soviet terrirtory was vulnerable to German attack through Finland
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Why did Britain want the port of Narvik in Norway
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to cut off iron ore supplies to Germany
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Why did Hitler want to conquer the Soviet Union
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for living space, the soviet union would provide the third reich with the raw materials and foodstuffs to make it self-sufficent
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Describe the First 6 months of the Barbarossa Campaign
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It was a 3 prong attack on June 22, 1941
Attacked Leningrand,Moscow and Kiev. The Red army was destroyed. 300,000 russians troops were captured near smolensk and 600,000 trapped in the German attack towards Kiev
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What 2 factors stopped operation Barbarossa
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Poor,roads, mud and snow was slowing the troops,bitter cold Russian winter
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Goal of the Battle of Arnhem
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To push the Germans across the Rhine, Led by Montgomery wanted to capture some vital bridges. Failed cuz allies couldn't suppor the parashooters that went in
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What is the battle of bulge
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Germanys last attack in the Ardennes forest of france. Germany pushed 50 miles until Jan 1945 the germans were pushed back Happened in 1944
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how was germany able to crush the polish resistance
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While russians troops were pushing Germans Westward they were halted leaving Germans enough time to wipe out Polish resistance
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March 1945
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The allies were poised for victory. Americans and British had crossed the rhine and on the eastern front the soviet were closing in on Berlin. In late april Russian troops fought their way into the suburbs of berlin
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April 30 1945
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Hitler shot him self in the head the war was over, but ther was still war in the Pacific
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June 10,1940
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Mussolini declared war on Britain and France,
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August 1940
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Italian troops pushed Britain out of Br. Somaliland. The British pushed the Italians back with victories at 1)Tobruk 2)Benghazi Churchill decided to support Greece
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March 1941
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50,000 Br.Troops landed at Salonika, by May 16,000 were rescued by the Royal navy in a second Dunkirk
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Feb 1941
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Hitler helps italy ally by sending Afrika Korps commanded by Rommel "Desert Fox" Rommel pushed the British back to Tobruk which was take in June of 1943. The capture of El Alamein would have put Alexandria, the Suez Canal and Middle Eastern oil with reach
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Oct 23 1942
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Montgomery took command at El Alamein and forced Germans to retreat
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Nov 1942
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Anglo(american and free french forces landed in Morocco and algeria for Operation Torch)
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Eisenhower(US)
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was in command of Operation Torch, a great pincer was used, Quick victory was stopped by Vichy France and the flood of German reinforcements into Tunisia.
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May 1943
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Italian and German forces in North Africa surrendered
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Atlantic Charter
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1941, Roosevelt and Churchill discussed the 4 freedoms. They resembled wilson's 14 points/self-government, free trade, improved living standards and economic security.
Germany would be disarmed after the war
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Casablanca
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1943 accepted only "unconditional surredern" from the axis powers. Roosevelt and Churchill, Chiang Kai-Shek
Attack the soft underbelly first
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Teheran
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1943 "The Big Three"-decided on May 1944 as the date for opening a second front/
Stalin promised that Russia would enter the war against Japan after the defeat of Germany
Curzon Line would be the future Russo-Polish border
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Yalta
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Feb 1945. THe morgenthau Plan was abandoned. This would have partitioned the German state with agricultural economies. Ther German state would be divided into zones of military occupation. The Russian zone would be the Largest. A french zone would be created out of the British and American Zones. Berlin Would be likewise divided with freedom of access to the Allies.Nazism would be destroyed, war criminals tried and punished. State promised free elections in all territores liberatred by the Red Army
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Potsdam
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July 1945, European War over
Truman,Clement Attlee, Stalin
Reparations to be not too servere
Saar coal mines to France temporarily
A democratically elected German government was assumed
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Himmler
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SS leader, concentration camp
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Rommel
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Defended Africa, Desert Fox
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Goering
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incharge of Luffwaffe
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Dr Mengele
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Angel of Death
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Eichmann
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Transportation to the death camp
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Heydrich
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Hangman, in charge of eastern territories
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Hess
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Deputy Fuhrer, 1940 flew to Scotland Prisoner in Britain
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Speerr
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Architect
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Goebbels
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In charge of Propaganda, Posion Dwarf
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Neutrality act
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prohibited the export of munitions to countries at war
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Cash and carry
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came to USA To pick up the weapons
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Admiral Yamamoto
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Commander in chief of the imperial Japanese navy, drew up his daring plan of a sudden attack upon the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor.
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Pearl Harbor
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Dec 7 1941. japan uses naval aviation to attack USA
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What commodity did Japan need
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Oil, they needed to be more independent
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Turning point in the Pacific
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Midway, USA destroyed multiple Japanese Naval Aviation ships
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Leyte Guilf
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Largest naval battle in history, American forces concetrated on freeing the philippines. Island seized by July 1945
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Iwo Jima, Okinawa
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Captured in June of 1945 now USA was able to continuous bomb Japan.
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August 1945
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Japan was given an ultimatum to eithe rsurrender unconditionally or face dire consequences.
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August 6 1945
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Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima 3 days later another bomb dropped on Nagasaki .
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