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WWI starts…

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9 days after the non-agression pact is signed

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Non-agression pact

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signed by Soviet Union and Germ
NO fighting against each other
SU was facist and Germ was communist..not a good mix

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blitzkrieg

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means “lightning war” moved tons of troops across border and aerial attack to intimidate and scare you

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who started the war? Where? and How?

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HItler invaded Poland and it was a blitzkrieg

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WHO DOES POLAND ASK FOR HELP? WHAT DO THEY SAY?

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FR AND BR
NOT PREPARED
POLAND QUICKLY FALLS TO THE GERMANS

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USSR TOOK WHAT AND HITLER TOOK WHAT AFTER THEY BEAT POLAND

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EACH TOOK HALF OF POLAND AND THE BALTICS

THIS WAS BECAUSE OF THE SECRET PARTOF THE NONAGRESSION PACT

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WHAT WERE THE LINES CALLED THAT THE FR &BR AND GERMANS WERE SITTING ON

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MAGINOT-FR AND BR

SIEGFRIED-GERMAN

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WHAT WAS THE PART OF WWII THAT THEY JUST SAT THERE AND STARED AT EACH OTHER CALLED

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THE “SITTING WAR” OR THE “PHONY WAR”

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AFTER POLAND, HITLER ATTACKS….

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DENMARK AND NORWAY

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LATER, HITLER TAKES…

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NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM, AND LUXEMBOURG

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ARDENNES FOREST

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HITLER WENT THROUGH THIS TO ATTACK FRANCE

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RESCUE AT DUNKIRK

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BR HELP SINCE THE FR ARE STUCK

TONS OF SHIPS

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WHO SURRENDERED AFTER HITLER INVADED FRANCE

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FRANCE

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PETAIN

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HEAD OF PUPPET GOV’T IN SOUTH FRANCE CALLED THE VICHY GOVERNMENT

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CHARLES DE GAULLE

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SET UP A FR GOV’T IN EXILE. ALSO SET UP THE FREE FRENCH ARMY IN BR

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WINSTON CHURCHILL

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NEW BR PRIME MINISTER. NO NONSENSE KIND OF MAN THAT THEY NEEDED

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BATTLE OF BRITAIN

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LUFTWAFFE IS SUPPOSED TO KNOCK OUT THE RAF(ROYAL AIR FORCE) THEN LAUNCH A MASSIVE GROUND INVASION
LASTED LONGER THAN IT WAS SUPPOSED TO B/C OF RADAR AND ENIGMA: THEY DECODED ALL GERMAN PLANS AND MESSAGES

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AFTER THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN LASTED SO LONG AND WASN’T WORKING FOR THE GERMANS, HITLER SAID TO..

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LET THE LUFTWAFFE BOMB THE BR CIVILIANS AND THEN HE LIMITED IT TO JUST AT NIGHT

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HOW DID THE BR REACT TO THE NIGHT BOMBINGS

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EVERYONE JUST SLEPT UNDERGROUND AND NO ONE COULD LIGHT ANYTHING AFTER DUSK SO THAT THE PLANES COULDNT FIND THE CITIES

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HITLER GOT FRUSTRATED BECAUSE…

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THE BRITISH WERE TOO SMART AND GOT AROUND EVERY ONE OF HIS PLANS

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HOW LONG DID THESE BOMBINGS LAST

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JUNE TO MAY

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WHAT DID ITALY ATTACK AND WHY

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EGYPT-BR COLONY
IT HAS THE SUEZ CANAL
IF YOU HAVE CONTROL OF THIS, YOU CAN CONTROL THE TRADE TO ASIA
ASIA IS RICH IN OIL

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WHO IS SENT WHEN THE EGYPTIANS STARTED LOSING

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GENERAL ROMMEL

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WHO JOINS THE AXIS POWERS(THIRD REICH) WILLINGLY

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BULGARIA, ROMANIA, AND HUNGARY

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WHO RESISTED HITLER BUT EVENTUALLY FELL
YUGOSLAVIA AND GREECE
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OPERATION BARBAROSSA
HITLERS PLAN TO ATTACK THE USSR GO THROUGH THE BALKANS. USE BLITZKRIEG THE SOVIETS USE SCORCHED-EARTH POLICY AGAIN
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BATTLE OF LENINGRAD
HITLER SURROUNDS IT, BOMBS FOOD SUPPLIES | PEOPLE SUFFER TERRIBLY AND DID NOT GIVE UP
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NEXT THEY TRIED TO MARCH ON..
MOSCOW AND IT TURNED WINTER AND IT WAS REALLY COLD AND MANY GERMANS DIED
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FDR CONVINCES CONGRESS TO PASS THE
LEND LEASE ACT
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LEND LEASE ACT
SAID WE WOULD GIVE WEAPONS TO WHOEVER WE WANT TO BUT IT'S ON A CASH AND CARRY BASIS. BR TRADED HEAVILY WITH US
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WHAT MADE THE GERMANS MAD ABOUT THE US-BR RELATIONSHIP
THE US WAS ESCORTING BR CARGO SHIPS
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WHAT DID THE GERMANS DO SINCE THEY WERE MAD AT THE US
SHOT DOWN AN AMERICAN SHIP AND FDR TOLD THE NAVY THEY HAD PERMISSION TO SHOOT DOWN ANY GERMAN SHIPS THEY SEE. WE ARE AT UNDECLARED NAVAL WAR WITH GERMANY.
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ATLANTIC CHARTER
FDR AND CHURCHILL WROTE AND SIGNED THIS 1. COUNTRIES HAVE RIGHT TO FREE TRADE 2. PEOPLE IN A COUNTRY SHOULD CHOOSE THE GOV'T BASIS OF OUR PEACE TREATY THAT ENDS WWII
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JAPAN STARTED TO..
ADVANCE CLOSER TO THE EURO COLONIES
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THE US TRADED WHAT WITH JAPAN AND THEN..
SCRAP METAL, ETC. AND THEN WE STOPPED TRADING SCRAP METAL AND OIL WITH THEM
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WHY DID THE US STOP TRADING WITH JAPAN?
WE DIDNT LIKE WHAT THEY WERE DOING WITH THE STUFF WE TRADED THEM
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PEARL HARBOR
JAPAN ATTACKS US, CONGRESS DECLARES WAR ON JAPAN, GERMANY, AND ITALY
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EAST ASIA FOR ASIATICS
JAPAN WANTED THESE PEOPLE TO FOLLOW THEM(TREATING THEM LIKE COLONIES) THEY WANT AN EAST-ASIA FOR THE JAPANESE THEY WANT TO KICK OUT THE EUROPEANS IN ASIA
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DOOLITTLE'S RAID
US HIT TOKYO, PROVE TO THE JAPANESE THAT THEY WERE INVINCIBLE AND FOR REVENGE
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BATTLE OF THE CORAL SEA
FOUGHT IN THE AIR 1ST TIME COMPLETELY IN AIR JAPS WON UA GOAL ACCOMPLISHED WHICH WAS TO STOP JAPAN SOUTHERN TAKEOVER OR FROM GOING FARTHER SOUTH
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BATTLE OF MIDWAY
JAPAN HIT US HARD AND GOT US OUT OF THE WAR | JAPAN SENT EVERYTHING THEY HAD
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AMERICAN LEADER AT MIDWAY
NIMITZ
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US KILLED JAPANESE AT...
THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY
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MACARTHUR
COMES UP WITH ISLAND HOPPING-SKIPPING ISLANDS THAT ARE HEAVILY ARMED THEN GET CLOSE ENOUGH TO JAPAN TO LAUNCH AN ATTACK ON THEM
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BATTLE OF GUADAL CANAL
US ATTACK TO SET THE GUADAL CANAL US WON ISLAND-HOPPING WORKS AND JAPAN RETREATS
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BEN MONTGOMERY
BR GOES TO AFRICA
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ALLIES COME UP WITH A PLAN CALLED
OPERATION TORCH
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WHAT ID OPERATION TORCH
LANDGENERAL EISENHOWER IN CASABLANCA AND MOVE HIM THROUGH AFRICA (ROMMEL SANDWHICH)
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ALLIES GET CONTROL OF
NORTH AMERICA
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BATTLE OF STALINGRAD
SOVIET UNIONO VS. GERM GATEWAY TO THE EAST CONTROLLING STALINGRAD WOULD WE GOOD FOR HITLER HE SURROUNDS CITY AND BOMBS IT
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STALIN WAS TIRED AND HE WANTED HIS FRIENDS TO...
ATTACK FRANCE FDR AND CHURCHILL WEREN'T READY FOR THIS SO THEY ATTACKED ITALY FIRST THEY CAPTURE SICILY AND IT ONLY TAKES 15 DAYS FOR IT TO SURRENDER
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BUT LITTLE DID THEY KNOW...
HITLER SENDS TROOPS TO N ITALY THEY PUT MUSSOLINI BACK IN POWER ALLIES TAKE ROME ITALIAN ARMY CAUGHT MUSSOLINI AND SHOT HIM AND HUNG HIM UPSIDE DOWN FOR ALL OF MILAN TO SEE.
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HOME FRONT
TOTAL WAR, WOMEN, RATIONING, PREJUDICE-INTERNMENT CAMPS (JAPS FORCED TO WORK, MOSTLY ON FAMRS, THEN WERE LET LOOSE WITH NOTHING)
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THE ALLIES SET UP A... TO TRICK HITLER
FAKE ARMY WITH A FAKE LOCATION( CALAIS)
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D-DAY
OPERATION OVERLORD JUNE 6, 1944 BIGGEST GROUND AND AIR INVASION EVER
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PATTON
FOUND A WEAK SPOT IN GERMAN DEFENSES AND MADE IT TO PARIS BY AUGUST AND BY SEPTEMBER FR, BELGIUM, LUXEMBOURG
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BATTLE OF THE BULGE
LAST DITCH EFFORT TO TURN THE WAR BACK IN HIS FAVOR HE CREATED A BULGE BUT NEVER BROKE THE LINE OF SOLDIERS GERM SURRENDERS AND BY APRIL BERLIN IS SURROUNDED AND BOMBED
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WHAT HAPPENED THAT KIND OF UNOFFICIALLY ENDED THE WAR
HITLER AND WIFE KILL THEMSELVES
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BATTLE OF LEYTE GULF
LAST DITCH EFFORT TO TURN WAR AROUND FOR JAPANESE | USED KAMIKAZEES-CRASH PLANES INTO US SHIPS
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BATTLE OF IWO JIMA
IWO JIMA NOT FAR FROM JAPAN-FOUGHT TO KEEP IT AND AM FOUGHT TO GET IT US WON
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BATTLE OF OKINAWA
EVEN A LITTLE CLOSER TO JAPAN THAN IWO JIMA. THAT MUCH MORE IMPORTANT. US WON
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THE QUESTION NOW IS...
DO WE FIGHT JAPAN?
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NOW FDR IS DEAD AND WE HAVE...
TRUMAN
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WHERE IS THE ATOM BOMB TESTED BY AM
NEW MEXICO
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THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB IS DROPPED ON
HIROSHIMA KILLED LOTS AND JAPAN STILL DID NOT SURRENDER
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THE SECOND ATOMIC BOMB IS DROPPED ON
NAGASAKI WE ONLY HAD 2 BOMBS. JAPAN SURRENDERED
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THIS WAR WAS THE MOST
DESTRUCTIVE AND DEADLY WAR EVER
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HOW MANY DEAD? HOW MANY HOMELESS?
60 MILLION-50 MILLION
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EUROPE
40 MILLION DEAD-2/3 OF CIVILIANS, CITIES IN RUBBLE PEOPLE WERE LOST-CONCENTRATION CAMP VICS, POWS, REFUGEES AGRICULTURE COMPLETELY DISRUPTED, TRANSP. SYSTEM DESTROYED-FAMINE, LACK OF COATS, SHOES, ETC. COMMUNIST PARTY GREW IN FRANCE, ITALY THEN DECLINE NUREMBERG TRIALS-22 NAZIS
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JAPAN
DEMILITARIZATION-DEMOCRATIZATION-LAND, RIGHTS | EMPEROR NOT DIVINE, DIET, ARTICLE 9-JAPAN CANNOT WAGE WAR

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