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who were the black shirts?
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| the black shirts were most of the time ex-soldiers. |
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Describe Mussolini’s rule.
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| he was gaining power in ww1 it was a leading point in his fascism idea. He forged the paramilitary Fascist movement in 1919 and became prime minister in 1922. |
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| What country did Italy invade in 1935? |
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| Italy invades Ethiopia. In 1935, the League of Nations was faced with another crucial test. Benito Mussolini, the Fascist leader of Italy, had adopted Adolf Hitler's plans to expand German territories |
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| What was Guernica’s significance? |
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| 'Guernica' was painted by the Cubist Spanish painter, Pablo Picasso in 1937. The title 'Guernica' refers to the city that was bombed by Nazi planes during the Spanish Civil War. |
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| Appeasement, the policy of making concessions to the dictatorial powers in order to avoid conflict. |
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| What was the US role in Europe at the beginning of the war? |
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| Although the war began with Nazi Germany's attack on Poland in September 1939, the United States did not enter the war until after the Japanese bombed the American fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. |
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What was the enemy of the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis?
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| Germany, officials from Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan signed the ten-year Tripartite Pact. A military alliance. |
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What was decided at the Munich Conference?
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| Conference held in Munich on September 28--29, 1938, during which the leaders of Great Britain, France, and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex certain areas of Czechoslovakia. |
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| How effective was the League of Nations? |
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| the League of Nations was successful in small ways in the 1920s, stopping small wars and improving lives. But it could not defend the Treaty of Versailles. |
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Who did Germany invade to officially start WWII?
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| The war in Europe with an invasion of Germany by the Western Allies and the Soviet Union, in the capture of Berlin by Soviet troops and the suicide of Adolf Hitler and the subsequent German unconditional surrender on 8 May 1945. |
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What is the Lend-Lease Act?
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| was a program by which the United States supplied Free France, the United Kingdom, the Republic of China, and later the Soviet Union and other Allied nations with food, oil, and material between 1941 and August 1945. |
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| Where did the Japanese Empire stretch |
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| The Japanese Empire stretched from Manchuria in the north to New Guinea's jungle-clad Owen Stanley Range in the south. |
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What was the Atlantic Charter?
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| The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on August 14, 1941 |
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| What was the London Blitz |
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| The first German attack on London actually occurred by accident. Germany bombs London. On 7 September 1940, the Luftwaffe unleashed a merciless bombing campaign against London and Britain's major cities. |
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| What was the Miracle of Dunkirk? |
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| The Dunkirk evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo, and also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk. The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was sent to help defend France. |
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| it was when the Japanese attacked the united states of America President Franklin Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy. On that day, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. |
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| The Siege of Leningrad, also known as the Leningrad Blockade, was a prolonged military blockade undertaken mainly by the German Army |
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What does blitzkrieg mean?
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| Germany quickly overran much of Europe and was victorious for more than two years by relying on a new military called the Blitzkrieg (lightning war). Blitzkrieg tactics required the concentration of offensive weapons they were very cruel. |
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Italy entered the war on 10 June 1940 and attempted an invasion of France.
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| What race of people did Hitler believe were superior |
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| aryans he believed they were the highest race he also believes that they had to be a blond blue eyed. |
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| What was the Final Solution? |
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| people believed the nazi germans refer their plan to annihilate the Jewish people. |
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| What European country saved much of their Jewish population? |
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| it was only the Eastern European country that kept much of its Jewish population from the gas chambers. |
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| the laws are decreased and people can hold weapons territory and combats are also involved. |
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What is the Battle of Alamein
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| The Battle of El Alamein was fought between two of the commanders of World War Two, Montgomery, who succeeded the dismissed Auchinleck, and Rommel. |
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| What was the Battle of Stalingrad? |
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| allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. |
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| The allies were trying to fight land of from Europe and it was on June 6, 1944. |
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| Was a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World War II. |
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| What was the significance of the Battle of Midway |
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| The United States Navy defeated a Japanese attack against Midway Atoll, marking a turning point in the war in the Pacific theatre. Fought just a month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, Midway was the turning point of the Pacific Campaign. |
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| What was the Battle of the Bulge |
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| As the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in eastern Belgium, northeast France, and Luxembourg, towards the end of World War II. |
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| What were the positives of the dropping of the Atomic Bomb |
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| but it also successfully ended the second world war. |
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a Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target.
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| it is on Tuesday, May 8th 1945 people call it veterans day. |
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Georges Clemenceau, the Prime Minister of France
(2nd right).
Woodrow Wilson, the President of America (far right).
David Lloyd George, the Prime Minister of Britain (far left, talking to Orlando, the Prime Minister of Italy).
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| How many nations made up the original United Nations |
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| Who are the 5 permanent members of the security council of the UN |
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| China, France, Russia (formerly the Soviet Union), they are the five states which the UN Charter of 1945 grants a permanent seat on the UN Security Council United Kingdom, and the United States. |
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| What was the Truman Doctrine |
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| The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. |
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| is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949. |
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| Which nation suffered the most casualties in WWII |
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| Over a quarter of its population, 2,290,000 people, died during the conflict. In terms of total numbers, the Soviet Union bore an incredible brunt of casualties during WWII |
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| Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of German Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps built and operated by Nazi Germany in Polish areas during World War II |
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