ch. 16&17 Flashcards by Taylor Mastin

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Franco

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Spanish general

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Mussolini

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totalitarian in italy

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Hitler

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national socialist german workers party

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Churchill

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face of great britain

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Openheimer

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developed first atomic bomb

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Chamberlain

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prime minister of GB

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Randolph

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important African American labor leader

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Tojo

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prime minister of japan

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Stalin

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“man of steel”

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Bradley

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one of the three most famous generals

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Truman

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president of us at the end of the war

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McCarthy

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command of allied forces on island

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Nimitz

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commander of American naval forces

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Marshall

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army chief of staff

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DeGaulle

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fled to Britain after the fall of france

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internment

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???

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blitzkrieg

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lightning war

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D-Day

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famous allied invasion to liberate europe

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V-E Day

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nickname given to the day American beat europe

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Natzism

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german brand of facism

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Neutrality Acts

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outlawed arms sales or loans to nations at war

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War Production Board

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gov’t agency

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Atlantic Charter

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statement of goals

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Nagasaki

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bombed dropped in japan

Hiroshima

every building collapsed to dust

Axis Powers

Germany Italy & japan

Genocide

systematic killing

Nuremburg Trials

Nazi war criminals would be brought to justice

OPA

agency of federal gov't

Kristallnacht

November 9, 1938

Concentration Camps

prison camps

Allied Powers

us, Britain, soviet

Naval Batteries

???

Corps

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totalitarian

gov't maintains complete control

lend-lease act

allowed leasing or lending arms

GI

federal gov't assisted veterans

nonaggression act

not to attack each other

rationing

restricting the amount of food

facism

nationalism

womens auxiliary army corps

female volunteers to serve

holocaust

systematic murder of 11 million jews

ghetto

segregated neighborhood