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| The act of allowing others to act against common beliefs without stopping them. |
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| Britain, USA, and Soviet Union |
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| Japan, Italy, and Germany |
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| Germanys lightening war. Made famous first in Poland |
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| Leader/ dictator of the Soviet Union |
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| Leader (Prime minister) of Great Britain |
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daytime bombings over Tokyo
The raiders had to crash land in China
several were captured |
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| the Allied invasion of Europe through the beaches of Normandy |
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| Name the five beaches of Normandy |
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Utah
Omaha
Juno
Gold
Sword |
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| The term used to describe the killing of milions of Jews |
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| Hitler's girlfriend turned wife on the day he committed suicide |
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AKA Operation Uranus
Germany vs USSR |
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Date of Pearl Harbor Attack
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| Big Three conferences in order |
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Tehran 1943
Yalta 1945
Potsdam 1945 |
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The desert fox
German general |
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| Peacful union or takeover |
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| Allied invasion of North Africa |
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| Where the US used decoy blow up tanks, jeeps, and planes to trick Hitler into fortifying Calais |
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| German submarines that traveld in "wolf packs" |
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| The only time Churchill and FDR met without Stalin |
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| Bombing all over a targeted area. |
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Bombing a certain facility
typically a military facility |
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| turning point of Pacific Theater |
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AKA Ol Blood and Guts
known for his fopul mouth and brash tactics
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| first black servicemen to serve as military aviators in the U.S. armed forces, flying with distinction during WW II. Not losing one mission. |
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| Allied strategy to re-take Japanese held Pacific Islands |
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| Island in the Pacific where the USA flag was raised on top of Mt. Suribachi |
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| Only battle completely fought in the air from aircraft carriers in the sea |
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| Navy Admiral who toured Pearl Harbor and said either God was looking out for us or Japan made three huge mistakes |
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| the symbolic name given to all women who worked in factories back at home while their men were at war |
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| Black labor leader who helped influence Truman to desegregate our military |
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| Mexican migrant workers who were paid to help pick various crops |
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| Places where "Enemy aliens" might be placed until the war ended. Often dirty and unhealthy |
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Korematsu V United States 1944 |
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| Court case that said imternment camps were constitutional in times of war or rebellion |
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allowing families limited amounts of items that could be used for the military
ie...Silk, flour, butter, tires, fuel... |
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allowing families limited amounts of items that could be used for the military
ie...Silk, flour, butter, tires, fuel... |
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allowing families limited amounts of items that could be used for the military
ie...Silk, flour, butter, tires, fuel... |
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Office of War Information
Propoganda specialists |
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May 8th
Victory in Europe Day
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August 15
Victory over Japan day |
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July 20, 1944
Last of many attempts to assassinate Hitler
Von Stauffenberg/ meeting/ bomb in brief case/ placed under table
3 others died~ Hitler was injured |
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Called the Ardennes Offensive, but better known as the Battle of the Bulge
Created a bulge in the American lines
Allies were surprise
English speaking Germans dressed in American uniforms spread misinformation, changing road signs and cutting telephone lines
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April 1945
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•April 28, 1945~ Mussolini flees/ captured/ executed
•April 12, 1945~ FDR dies
•April 12, 1945~ Harry S. Truman becomes president
•April 30, 1945~ Hitler and others commit suicide |
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Atomic bomb secret code name
scientists worked since 1930s
3 locations in the USA
Tennessee, New Mexico, and Washingto state
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Test atomic bomb
released in NM desert |
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Test atomic bomb
released in NM desert |
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August 6, 1945
Enola Gay
pilot Paul Tibbits
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August 9, 1945
Bock's Car
Nagasaki
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carried Atomic components
sunk by Japanese
worst naval loss on record
never found
only 316 men survived the ocean |
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| ship upon which the Japanese surrender took place in 1945 |
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Hebrew term for the Holocaust
means great catastraphe |
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Laws restricting Jews
started the Holocaust timeline of events |
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night of broken glass
worst vandalism/terror against the Jews at that point
destroyed homes, synagogues, shops etc |
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Nazi term that serves to “justify” genocide |
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▫starvation
▫being worked to death
▫exposure to the elements
▫epidemics and disease
▫being executed for alleged crimes |
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| Death (extermination) Camps |
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•Intention was to murder inmates
•Most used gas chambers and crematoria for disposing of the remains |
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Worked with the Red Cross
Allowed more Jews and Eastern Europeans in the US (+/- 200,000) |
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Took the place of the League of Nations
•Still in operation
•Peacekeeping force
•50 nations met in 1945 to write the charter
•Permanent home in NYC
•5 nations earned permanent seats
USA Soviet Union Britain France China |
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