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04/17/2011

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Anti-Semitism
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Racism Towards Jewish People
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Appeasement
Definition
To buy off with concessions
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Anschluss
Definition

The annexation of Austria

-Taking over lands lost in Versailles

-causes neville chamberlain to make munich pact

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Blitzkrieg
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German Invasion technique against Poland

1.)bomb from planes

2.) Send in Tanks

3.) send in soilders

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Cold War
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Collaborator
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 to cooperate with or willingly assist an enemy of one's country and especially an occupying force
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Containment
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the policy, process, or result of preventing the expansion of a hostile power or ideology
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Island Hopping
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military strategy used against Japan in the Pacific

-used by passing heavily fortified island to surround them and blockade them

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Lebensraum
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territory believed especially by Nazis to be necessary for national existence or economic self-sufficiency
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Pacifism
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opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes; specifically : refusal to bear arms on moral or religious grounds
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Sitzkreig
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When Britain and France declare war (after invasion of Poland) but dont do anything for months
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Total War
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When Civilans are targeted
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Sudetenland
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Czech land which alot of germans lived in so they thought it should be theirs

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Houston Stewart Chamberlain
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Hitlers Writer
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Neville Chamberlain
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British prime minister who makes munich pact with Hitler and Mussolini
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Winston Churchill
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Prime Minister of Britain after Neville Chamberlain
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Supreme Allie Commander
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Albert Einstein
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Tells USA about atomic bombs (splitting of atoms to create energy)

that Germans were already working on

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Francisco Franco
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Copies Mussolini (like Hitler)

leads Nationalists (dictatorships) against Republicans (democracys) in Spanish civial war

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Heinz Guderian
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Developed Nazi Tanks
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Tojo Hideki
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Japanese Prime Minister

-Responsible for Pearl harbor

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Bernard L Montgomery
Definition

"Monty"

British Feild Marchell at Alemein

-Defeats Desert Fox (Erwim Rommel)

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J Robert Oppenheimer
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Developer of Atomic Bomb
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George S. Patton
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Very outspoken and inspiring general

-"only good jap is a dead jap"

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Friedrich paulus
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Feild Marchell at Stalingrad (bloodiest day of the war)

-ordered not to give up

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Franklin D Roosevelt
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-President of the USA

-One of the Big Three with Stalin and Churchill

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Erwin Rommel
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"desert Fox"

Unstoppable german leader

-pessimistic, tiny, super smart

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Joseph Stalin
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Leader of Soviet union
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Harry S. Truman
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Took over when FDR died as president of USA
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Dunkirk
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When all things that float were sent to british soliders to save them from nazi's

-right before the Blitz

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El Alamein
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Monty (Bernard L Montgomery)British VS

Desert Fox (Erwin Rommel) German

-Monty Wins!

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Stalingrad
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Bloodiest battle of the war.

-both sides told not to pull out no matter what

-General Paulus forced to surrender because his men turn on him

-Turning point of war

-Stalin dosent trust USA and Britain because they didnt help

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Pearl Harbor
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December 7, 1941

-USA enters war

-USA stops trading with Japan, so they attack pearl harbor, where most of our naval fleet was and bombed them all

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Guadalcanal
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American claimed island in Japan during Pacific war
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Guernica
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Town in the North of Spain

-Bombed by Germans in Spanish Civil War

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The Blitz
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Massive Bombing campeign on Britain

-people went into subway stations

-Hope to demoralize but only added moral because they kept up normal life

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Kristallnacht
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"Night of Broken Glass"

-Jewish boy attacks Nazi officer because nazis killed his parents

-Advertised by Nazi's

-People attack all Jews and stores, stealing everything

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Kellog-Briand pact
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The pact renounced aggressive war, prohibiting the use of war as "an instrument of national policy" except in matters of self-defense in Lauge of Nations
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Operation Barbarossa
Definition
Germanys invasion of the USSR
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D-Day
Definition

Allied invasion of Normandy

-"operatoin Fortitude" trick hitler in thinking the attack was coming frmo the opposite side

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Battle of the Buldge
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germans lost

-usa refused to back down

-morphine and other supplies went down

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Firebombing of dresden
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"to demoralize the enemy"

attack purely on civilians

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Fire bombing of Tokyo
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Firebombing of all Japan cities

-most of their buildings were made of wood...

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Munich Pact
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Says France and Britain will invade Germany if they take any more land

-hitler agrees but dosent keep promise

-Appeasement

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Nazi-Soviet Non-Agression pact
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-Supposed to be secret but everyone finds out

-Hitlers plan to avoid two-front war

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NATO
Definition
Peace pact by democratic countries- Great britain France and USA
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Security Council
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Main part of the UN

-Maintain international Peace

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Arms Race
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Race to make best nuclear arms between Russia and USA
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Iron Curtain
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Term to explain Cold War
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Berlin Airlift
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The USA airlifted necessities to Berlin which was being blockaded by the Soviet Union
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Warsaw Pact
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Reaction to NATO

-Communist peace alliance

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Marshall Plan
Definition
Trumans plan to help rebuild all of Europe, even the Axis powers
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Two cities USA bombed to end war. Hiroshima first then after no surrender Nagasaki
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Manhattan project
Definition
extreamly top secret race to create the atomic bomb
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Fortress Europe
Definition
Hitler conquers all of Europe right next to free Britain
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Facism
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is a radical, authoritarian nationalist political ideology.[1][2] Fascists advocate the creation of a totalitarian single-party state that seeks the mass mobilization and mechanization of a nation and the creation of an ideal "new man" to form a governing elite through indoctrination, physical education, and family policy including eugenics.[3] Fascists believe that a nation requires strong leadership, singular collective identity, and the will and ability to commit violence and wage war in order to keep the nation strong.[4] Fascist governments forbid and suppress opposition to the state
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