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06/01/2009

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First blow of prestige to League of Nations
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Japan's withdrawl
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Auschwitz and Dachau were
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Concentration Camps
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Who aided Franco in the Spanish Civil War?
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Monarchists, Clerics, and Conservatives supported Franco
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Nonaggression Pact between who in 1933
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Germany and Poland
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Who established free French movement after it fell in 1940?
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Marshal Petain became head of the free French government or movement
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What physical feature made Poland easy to be conquered?
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Poland had the unfortunate geographical standing of being a flat rolling plain with no obstacles
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Who were the Communist bloc countries (satelite nations of the Soviet Union)
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Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, East Germany, Bulgaria, Rumania, Yugoslavia
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Fourth Neutrality Act is passed which includes the favoring of the democracies that was in terrible need of weapons. They will set aside money to lend but the US was to supply the Soviet Union, England, and all the free democratic government with arms
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Lend Lease
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Compare Hitler and Napoleon Bonaparte
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They both wanted to invade the Soviet Union but were not successful
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Speech made by Roosevelt during WWII?
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Arsenal of Democracy
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defensive line built in southwestern part of Germany that looks forward to the French Maginot Line
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Sigfreid Line
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Defense and evacuation of British and Allied forces of Europe; a large force of soldiers were cut off in northern France by a German armored advance to the English Channel coast at Calais. Allied troops caught in the pocket were successfully evacuated by sea to England
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Dunkirk
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After the invasion of Poland, we enter a phase of the war known as Sitz Kreig; There will not be any action taken between Germany
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Phony War
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Speech FDR said the day after Pearl Harbor
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Day of Infamy
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a war in which civilians suffered more casualties than the military and far more terrifying deaths; bombing-flying multiple planes dropping bombs
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Blitz Kreig
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written during the Atlantic Conference and signed by 15 countries; England and the US agree that there will be no territorial advancements; there will be no territorial change without the consent of inhabitants; there is self determination for all people; there will be free trade; US and England agree that we will disarm Germany
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Atlantic Charter
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Germany began by putting down overtures for England to surrender but she refuses; Then they send in the air force; After Germany sends in a walking army; the English rally a lot of spirit and eventually Hitler stops his attempt and pulls out
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Battle of Britain
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One major factor in England being successful in stopping the German invasion is ______ because it allowed them to fly at night
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Radar
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The military codeword for the German invasion of England
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Operation Sea Lion
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The codeword for the invasion of the Soviet Union
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Operation Barbarosa
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Who was safe from imprisonment?
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No one
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Italian entry into France and Poland was known as
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Stab in the Back
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France surrenders after 40 days and becomes a divided country known as
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Vichy France
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this policy was to burn everything as you retreat; no grain in the fields is no food; the Germans followed this policy in their unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union
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Scourged Earth Policy
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The 1938 incorporation of Austria into greater Germany by Nazi Germany
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Anschluss
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most controversial of all the conferences
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Yalta Conference
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US: Truman
England: Churchill
Leaders completing the conference:
US Truman
England Attlee
Soviet Union Stalin
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Potsdam
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The war for Japan will be leapfrogging; we will island hop all the way back to get our airplane bases from Japan; Japan will take the Philippnes and we will lose an entire army; We will go into a submarine and take _______ off the island because he was the best qualified to become the supreme allied commander in the Pacific
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General Douglas McArthur
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Where the US dropped the atomic bombs
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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VJ DAY=
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Victory in Japan Day
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