Chapter 26 Flashcards

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After dday allies advanced into Germany what was general

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Blood and guts Patton

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WWII started with invasion of what neutral country

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Poland

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Name of plane and pilot that dropped bomb

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Enola gay and tibbets

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Overall general of allied invasion at Normandy

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Dwight d Eisenhower

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Germany started what new type of attack

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Blitzkrieg

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FDR tried keeping us n what bill helped Britain

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Lend lease bill

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Two things very important on home front

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Rationing war bonds

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In Germany hitler trying to take over hatred of Jews called

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Anti semitism

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Systematic killing of Jews

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Holocaust

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Date us entered wwii

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December seventh 1941

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100,000 put in relocation camps after Pearl Harbor

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Internment camps

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German general known as desert fox defeated in elle allemain stopped what

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Erwin Rommel

Suez Canal

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German bombers daily into surrender known as what

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Battle of blitz

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Battle for this island at island. First time saw suicide planes called what

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Kamikazes

Okinawa

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Turning point battle in Europe

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Stalingrad

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15
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What year did Roosevelt win fourth straight election

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1944

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16
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When VJ Day where Japanese sign surrender

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Victory over Japan
Uss Missouri
August 15, 1945

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17
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Hurt war effort

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Racism

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18
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Largest of death camps in Poland

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Auschwitz

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Organization that kept us troops out of trouble

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Uso

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Island battle in island hopping after battle Japanese would rather die than surrender

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Saipan

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21
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Country invaded by hitler in 1938 violating treaty of Versailles

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Pulitzer Prize winner gave reports in Europe went to pacific killed by snipers bullet

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In twenties and thirties men that rose to power

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Mussolini and hitler

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During battle for Iwo Jima shows marines raising flag where
Mt. Surabachi
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Date and name. Of allied invasion of Europe
Operation overlord june 6, 1944
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Royal Air Force famous leader
Winston Churchill
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Date of VE Day
May 8, 1945
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Greatest rescue attempt French and British soldiers saved at what beach
Dunkirk
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In video major way able to put together how many communicated
Letter
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After war all criminals tried in what two places
Nuremberg and Tokyo
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Code name for North African invasion
Operation torch
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Had job of authorizing use of atomic bomb
Harry Truman
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Turning point battle in pacific
Midway
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Made final decision to attack Pearl Harbor
Hirohito
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Signed a non aggression pact with hitler then stabbed in back
Soviet Union
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320 men killed here put end to racial segregation
Port of Chicago
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Code name of building atomic bomb
Manhattan project
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Name of German code machine
Enigma
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City liberated in 1944 Mussolini destroyed
Rome
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Most decorated fighting outfit in war
442 group
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Japanese soldiers died defending airstrip
Tarawa
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Two totalitarian governments called what
Natziism fascism
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Battle pln in pacific
Island hopping
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During war two groups have help and support to troops
Medics and chaplains
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Two cities in order that were destroyed by atomic bomb
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Germany Italy Japan
Axis
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I shall return
Douglas MacArthur
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Code name for allied invasion of Sicily
Operation husky
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Buildup of military forces food and weapons in the U.s.
Home front
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Germany had to pay big sums of money
Reparations
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Aug. 25, 1944 city liberated from German control
Paris
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Name of last German offensive of wwii
Battle of the bulge