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  • Between Hitler and Stalin

- No fighting or worries

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Non aggression pact

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When did World War I start?

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9 days after the non aggression pact was signed, because Hitler invaded Poland

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Why did France and Britain declare war on Germany?

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Because they helped out Poland, who was invaded by Germany

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Blitzkrieg

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Lightning War

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Why do we not like stalin?

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The USSR took half of Poland and Baltics and he knew the invasion was goin to happen

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Siegfried

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Germans

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Maginot

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France and Britain

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Maginot and Siegfied lines in west

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Sitting War

Phony War

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Denmark and Norway

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Quick victories for hitler

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What did Hitler take when he surrounded and Isolated France?

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Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg

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  • Hitler attacked France

- Cornered the French army and pushed them backwards across France

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Ardennes Forest

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English ships rescue the French Army

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Rescue at Dunkirk

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Who maid the Vichy government?

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Petain (Head of public government in south france)

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Leads the Free French Army

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de Gaulle

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New Prime Minister

Spoke his mind and got his way

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Churchill

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Battle of Britain

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Germany vs. Britain

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Wanted to knock out Royal Air force in Battle of Britain

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Luftwaffe

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How did Britain win the battle of Britain?

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Used radar and enigma

British pretended they didn’t care about Hitler bombing them, and went underground

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Why did Italy attack Egypt?

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They said they’d better do something or Hitler would attack us.
They have the canal which controls trade from Europe to Asia

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Why did Hitler help Italy?

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Because Egypt was controlled by Britain and Hitler wanted to take down Britain

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How did Hitler help Italy?

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Send Rommel to help Italy

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Who is Rommel?

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That is one of HItler’s best generals

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Who voluntarily joined the Third Reich?

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Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary

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Who resisted Hitler but fell in days

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Yugoslavia and Greece

Hitler took all the balkans

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Hitler's plan to attack Stalin from the South | Soviets used scorched earth policy
Operation Barbarossa
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Battle of Leningrad
Stalin vs. Hitler Hitler surrounded them, bombed their food Hitler moved his troops to Moscow, and had the worst winter ever
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US Neutrality Acts
FDR convinces Congress to pass Lend Lease Act
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Lend Lease Act
Said we can lend or lease weapons to countries, but they had to pay for them and transport them
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Why did we start undeclared naval war with Germany?
They shot down an American plane because we were helping the British
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Atlantic Charter
1. Countries and Nations have the right to free trade 2. People should be able to choose the government 3. All of these were pointing at Germany
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Why did the US stop trading with Japan?
Oil and Scrap Metal | They weren't doing good things with it
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Pearl Harbor
Japan attacked Hawaii, unannounced | We declared war with Japan and their allies
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Who are on Japan's side?
Japan Italy and Germany
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Doolittle's Raid
Troop bombed Tokyo for 3 hours | Proved to Japan that they weren't invincible
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Battle of Coral Sea
Fought completely in air | Goal was to stop Japan's southern progression
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Battle of Midway | who led it?
Nimitz led it turning point in war Japanese sent everything they had, and came in waves. We still beat them
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Who started island hoping?
MacArthur
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Battle of Guadalcanal?
Japanese were building a base that would let them invade Australia, so we stopped them
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British's #1 general Launched a massive attack on Rommel NO sneakiness
Montgomery
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Rommel Sandwich
Operation Torch Eisenhower coming from Casa Blanca Montgomery coming from Egypt
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``` Germans vs. Russians Gateway city to east Hitler surrounds and bombs them marching toward moscow to make Russia give up Germans destroyed ```
Battle of Stalingrad
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When Italy doesn't want to fight anymore, what happens?
King of Italy takes over Rome and arrests mussolini, then Italy surrenders
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What happens when Germany took over North Italy?
Brought back Mussolini to take over
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Why does Mussolini die?
Italy was going downhill so he tried to high tail it outta there with his fellow Germans, and the Italians found him and killed him
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Home front
Total war women rationing prejudice
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Internment Camp
time out for Japanese Americans
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How did Calais start?
We just got Italy, and we needed to get into Europe and get france because Hitler was in control of it
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What was special about this?
Fake army, fake target, it was actually us invading Normandy
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Invasion of Normandy
D Day
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Patton
Found weak spot in German Defenses | Leader of fake army
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Hitler's last defensive move
Battle of the Bulge Hitler got Bastogne but Patton came and took it back
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What happened to Berlin?
Soviets surrounded them and bombed them, then Hitler committed suicide
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Japanese's last try to win | Largest naval battle
Battle of Leyte Gulf
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Pilots drugged up to fly their planes into ships
Kamikazes
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Japanese fought hard against us while we were island hopping
Iwo jima
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Trying to get as close to Japan as possible | Had to decide whether to invade Japan or not
Okinawa
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What happened in New Mexico?
Warned Japanese with the adam bomb and tested it
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Where were the bombs dropped?
Hiroshima | Nagasaki
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How many died and how many were homeless
60 million dead | 50 million homeless
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How many people in Europe died?
2/3 (40 mill)
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Problems in Europe
Death People Lost Systems messed up (transportation etc) Communist party grew in France
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Nuremberg Trials
captured 22 Nazi's and killed and burned them
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Japans probs
``` Demilitarization Democratization Emperor admittin he was not divine Diet Article 9 ```
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Demilitarization
only a small military
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democratization
new constitution and a constitutional monarchy
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Diet
bicameral legislature
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Article 9
Japan cannot declare war

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