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| Also known as the Great War and/or The War to End All Wars |
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| this man formed the Fascist Party in Italy in 1916. By 1929 he had complete control over Italy. Invaded Ethiopia in October 1935 |
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| the reunification of Germany and Austria in 1938 |
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| in September of 1938, Great Britain and France, eager to avoid another costly war, signed this agreement approving Germany's occupation of the Sudetenland because Hitler promised he wouldn't try to take any more territory. |
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| a German-speaking region of Czechoslovakia |
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| Emperor of Japan from 1926-1989 |
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| A six-week period after Japan’s capture of Nanjing—former capital of the Republic of China—in 1937, during which hundreds of thousands of civilians were murdered and 20,000–80,000 women were raped by soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army |
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| Japanese army officer and politician who ruled as dictator (1941-1944) during World War II and was executed as a war criminal. |
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| this event prompted Britain and France to declare war on Germany |
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| Germany, Italy, and Japan, which were allied before and during World War II. |
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| the countries that opposed the Axispowers during the Second World War (1939–1945). (Great Britain and France. United States and Soviet Union (Russia) join in 1941, and Italy in 1943) |
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| the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan on December 7th, 1941 |
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In 1922, the world's nine largest naval powers (including Japan and the United States) signed a series of treaties that:
- limited warship capacity
- agreed to consult each other in any disputes over China
- respected the territorial integrity of that nation
certain classes of ships weren't restricted leading to an arms race until the loopholes were closed. |
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| nickname of U.S. fighter pilots, the American Volunteer Group (AVG), who fought against the Japanese in China during World War II. |
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| an official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country. |
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| US Battleship that exploded and sank, killing 1,177 officers and crewmen. Unlike many of the other ships sunk or damaged during the attacks at Pearl Harbor, this battleship could not be fully salvaged, though the navy removed parts of the ship for reuse. |
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| Soviet Union (Russia) leader/dictator |
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| The Battle of the Atlantic |
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| battle that lasted the duration of the entire war (1939-1945) |
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It replaced the Neutrality Acts of 1939. The revision allowed the sale of material to belligerents, as long as the recipients arranged for the transport using their own ships and paid immediately in cash, assuming all risk in transportation.
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| month day and year in which France surrenders to Germany |
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| evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940. |
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| an agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time; a truce. |
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The Luftwaffe was the aerial warfare branch of the German Wehrmacht during World War II. (Germany's airforce)
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(from German, "lightning") was the period of sustained strategic bombing of the United Kingdom by Nazi Germanyduring the Second World War.
Between 7 September 1940 and 21 May 1941 there were major aerial raids (attacks in which more than 100 tonnes of high explosives were dropped) on 16 British cities. Over a period of 267 days (almost 37 weeks), London was attacked 71 times |
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| the matériel and services supplied by the U.S. to its allies during World War II under an act ofCongress passed in 1941: allowed for the purchase of war supplies on credit (to be repaid in kind after the war) |
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| Stalin's military policy in which his troops retreated and intentionally destroyed the land around them |
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| the biggest, bloodiest conflict on the Eastern front, is widely considered the turning point; by early 1943, the Nazis were in retreat. |
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an invasion of this island in the summer of '43 is considered the turning point in the Western theater of WWII.
Retaking this island gave the Allies control of the Mediterranean and prompted the Italian government to remove Mussolini from power. |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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| WWII Army General and future 34th American President (1956-1961) |
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| the persecution and mass murder of as many 11 million people by the Nazis between 1933 and 1935 |
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a Nazi pogrom throughout Germany
and Austria on the night of
November 9-10, 1938, during
which Jewswere killed and their property destroyed. Known as "The Nigh of Broken Glass" |
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| An order given by Adolf Hitler in the summer of 1941 that called for the systematic elimination of ALL Jewish people in Europe |
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| he use of high-temperature burning, vaporization, and oxidation to reduce dead animal or human bodies to basic chemical compounds, such as gases and mineral fragments retaining the appearance of dry bone |
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