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WWII Flashcards

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Franklin Roosevelt

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On his third team

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Winston Churchill

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Prime minister of England

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Joseph Stalin

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Dictator in Russia

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Adolf Hitler

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Grew up in Austria a Catholic. Fought. In WWII a 18. Becomes Chancellor.

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Mein Kampf

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(My Story), written by Hitler, threatened to kill leaders, rose to fame1

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Benito Mussolini

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Also known as Ill Dulce. Dictator of Italy. Brainwashed students.

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Neville Chamberlin

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Prime Minister of England after WWII. Gave Germany a year to prep.

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RAF

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Royal Air Force

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Luftwaffe

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German Airforce

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Axis Powers

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Bad- Germany, Italy, Japan

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Allied Powers

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Good- Britain, France, Russia. Later the US

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European Theater

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Fighting against Germany

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Pacific Theatre

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Fighting against Japan

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General Dwight Eisenhower

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Military leader in European Theater. Becomes president 10 years later.

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General Douglas MacArthur

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Military leader of Pacific Theater

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1938

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Germany invades Austria

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September 1, 1939

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Germany Invades Poland, beginning of WWII

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Battle of Britain

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Germany bombed London at night. Britain invented radar system and CDS. Failed.

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Blitzkreig

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Attack on London- German for attack

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December 7, 1941

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Bombing of Pearl Harbor

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Pearl Harbor

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US cut of japans oil. Boats- USS Arizona, USS Oklahoma

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WASP

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Women were used as guinea pigs for flying planes

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US Post War

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Economy rises, people get married and have kids

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Germany Post War

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Country is split in 4, each allied power rebuilds one. Russia never gave up their section

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Japan Post War

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No military, puts tax to education

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V-J Day

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Japan Surrenders, end of WWII

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Nuclear attack on Japan

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Bombed Hiroshima Japan and Nagasaki Japan. Carried by the Enola Gay plane

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Manhattan Project

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Race to build nuclear weapons. Created in Oak Ridge Tennessee.

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Two Options

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Invade Japan or use nuclear weapons

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Harry Truman

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Assumed presidency after FDR passed

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V-E Day

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End of D-Day. Germany surrenders after Hitler kills himself

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D-Day

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Allied powers invade France, largest invasion in history. England is the staging area.

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Santa Anita

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Largest area Japanese Americans were relocated, a horse barn.

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Japanese - Americans

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FDR relocated them to the West Coast as an executive order. Against the Constitution

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