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| leador of italy (fascist) |
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| president of U.S. after Truman |
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| Prime Minister of Great Britain after Neville Chamberlain |
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| President of U.S. after Roosevelt |
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| American General of ww2-rescued 101st airborne |
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| republican party nominee for the 1940 presidential election-lost to FDR |
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| prime minister of great britain before winston churchill |
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| admiral of the U.S. pacific fleet |
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| leader of the soviet union |
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| best german general "the dessert fox" |
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| general of U.S. army-pacific theater "i will return" |
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| british general who helped push nazes back to tripoli |
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| secretary of state of U.S. under FDR |
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| absolute control by the state or a governing branch of a highly centralized institution |
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| a policy of giving aggressor nations what they wanted in order to avoid war |
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| pact with germany in russia where neither would invade eachother-germany broke it |
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| fdr would not meddle in latin american afairs. he cancelled the platt amendment which gave up the U.S. right to intervene in cuba |
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| a form of government in which a dictator and supporters cooperate to seek more power for their nation, usually at the expense of rights for individuals |
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| a system of social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single political party |
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| germany, italy vs. U.S., soviets, great britain |
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| "lightning war"-blitzkreig overran the netherlands in 4 days. germany overtook belgium defense lines in 2 weeks |
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| operation to build the atomic bomb |
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| pearl harbor-roosevelt's speech |
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| italy,germany, and in future japan |
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| U.S., great britain, soviet union |
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| prelude to ww2, fascist regime trying to overthrow a democracy gov't |
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| appeasement reached its peak when british and french leaders allowed hitler to annex part of czechoslovakia in return for his promise to make no further territorial demands. munich pact meant "peace of out time" |
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| italy's invasion of africa |
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| italy invasion of ethiopia, axis wanted to take control of north africa |
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| hitler's march into the rhineland |
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| 1st step in hitler trying to conquer europe |
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| nazi germany began invading poland in sept 1939, this was beginning of ww2. |
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| the evacuation from dunkirk was a major relief for the british and french in terms of personnel |
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| germany's target after france was britain. germany underestimated britain. the british were producing newer and faster aircraft. after a month of bombing, british shot down 2 german planes for every one they lost, hitler postponed plans for future attack |
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| germany's invastion of USSR |
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| caught russians by surprise at first because of their pact w/germany. Hitler made massive gains in first few months, but army was forced to stop in december because of the winter, 20 miles from moscow. hitler waited too long to attack w/o supplies for army. this gave soviets time to regroup. |
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| U.S. saw japanese aggression as "morally reprehensible"-the U.S. imposed an embargo on japan which limited the shipment of gasoline, tool, iron, steel to the empire. the 2 nations met in washington regarding these issues but nothing was solved. the U.S. knew they would strike soon but no one knew how or when. |
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-after fall of france, germany controlled all of mainland europe
-great britain stood alone against germans |
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| germany's pre-france invasion |
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| attacked netherlands, denmark, luxemburg first, then france |
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beaches
US-omaha, utah
Britain-sword, gold
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-established a 2nd front in europe
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-first time germany was on offense
-when germany's front line pushed forward they formed a bulge
-general patton rescued division |
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| -first naval battle in history where no ships fired at eachother, all fought by aircraft |
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| known as the turning point of the war in the pacific, U.S. destroyed 4 carrier fleets of japan |
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-japanese island
-took americans over 1 month to take
-showed americans how far japanese would go to defend their country-this influenced use of atomic bombs |
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| allied plan to end war quickly after Dday, but failed |
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| first U.S. offensive of the war in the pacific |
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| dropping of the atomic bomb |
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-aka manhattan project
-dropped in hiroshima and nagasaki
-einstein took part
-japan wouldn't surrender, too many soldiers were dying |
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| axis powers 2 major mistakes of the war |
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japan-bombing of pearl harbor
germany-attacking soviet union |
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