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WW2
History first trimester - midterm *events
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History
10th Grade
03/09/2008

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Allied Powers
Definition
U.S., Great Britain (UK), Russia, Canada, China, Australia, France
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Axis Powers (enemy)

Definition
Germany, Italy, Japan
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Lend-Lease Act
Definition
Can give weapons to any country as long as they protect the U.S.
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"Blitzkrieg"
Definition
"Lightning War" - Poland defeated. Press referred to this war as "Sitskrieg"
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Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
Definition
Divide Poland
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Maginot Line
Definition
France's defense/border against the Germans who went around it
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Miracle at Dunkirk
Definition
Germans push England and France against English channel. 338,000 evacuated in 3 days
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Operation Sea Lion
Definition
Germans plan to invade England
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Radar
Definition
Saves Britains Royal Air Force
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Battle of Britain
Definition
Battle between Toyal Air Force and Luftwaffe
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Luftwaffe
Definition
German Air Force
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Peral Harbor
Definition

*A lot here* Battleship Row 5/7 sank

 

*Pillboxes

*Dragons Teeth

*Flame Throwers

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War on the Homefront
Definition
All of the things Americans were doing here in the U.S. to help the war.
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Doolittle's Raid
Definition
Symbolic - Bombing raid on Tokyo
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Battle of Midway
Definition
U.S. sinks 4/5 Japanese carriers. Turning point in the Pacific
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Operation Barbarossa (invasion of USSR)
Definition
Germany tries to take 90% of army and airforce (East)
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Battle of Stalingrad
Definition
(South) Turning point 1/8 of German army surrounded
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Battle of Leningrad
Definition
North city
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Battle around Moscow
Definition
Midde - wave after wave of men, winter helps
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Russian Winter
Definition
Saves Russia from surendering
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Loss of Philippines

Definition
MacArthur retreats to corregidor, Australia, Hawaii and west coast
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Bataan Death March
Definition
MacArthur retreats - Wainwright and 45,000 surrender on Bataan peninsula. *against U.S.*
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Operation Tourch
Definition
U.S. invasion of North Africa. Patton/Montgomery/Rommel
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Operation Husky
Definition
Invasion of Sicily. Patton Suspended
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Operation Overlord
Definition

U.S. invasion of Normandy. France - Eisenhower. Pas de Calais - Patton

 

*Began with D-day and ended with the liberation of Paris*

Term
D-day Beaches
Definition
Omah, Utah, Gold, Sword, Juno
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Iwo Jima
Definition
Biggest Navy Battle. 10,000 men lost. Mt. Suribachi
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Battle of the Bulge
Definition
Last German offensive. Germans lose in Bastunage
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Assasination attempt of Hitler
Definition
Count Von Stauffenburg sets off a bomb at "Wolf's Lair" (east)
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Manhattan Project
Definition
Development of Atomic Bombs
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Atomic Bombs
Definition
USS Indionapolis. "Little Boy" - Hiroshima. "Fat Man" - Nagasaki, Los Alamos.
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V-E Day
Definition
Crossing Rhine River. Bridge at Remagen. Dresden Fire Bombings. Phantom Divisions. Hitler Youth. Home Gaurd. Yalta Conference - Big Three.
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V-J Day
Definition
Japan surrenders after two atomic bombs were dropped
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U.S.S. Missouri
Definition
Japan signs agreement
Term
Nuremburg Trials
Definition
Court trials for top Nazi's
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Holocaust
Definition
Genocide against Jews
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Auschwitz
Definition
Biggest and worst concentration camp
Term
Concentration Camps
Definition
Jews worked to death
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Extermination Camps
Definition
Kills Jews *Zylon B Gas*
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Phantom Divisions

Definition
Hitler ordering around divisions that didn't exist anymore but people were too afraid to tell him this.
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Who lost the most men?
Definition
Soviet Union, France and Germany
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