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Wanted to have an empire as big as those of Western powers. To do this they seized Manchuria in 1931

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Japanese Military Leader

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Took aggressive actions but met only verbal protest and pleas for peace from democracies. Mussolini, Hitler, and the leader of Japan saw people as a weakness and responded with aggression

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Dictators

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Overran much of eastern China starting the Second Sino-Japanese War (Protests from the West fell on deaf ears)

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Japanese armies

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Acted on its own imperialist ambitions. Invaded Ethiopia

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Italy

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Tested the will of western democracies. Broke the treaty of Versailles by building a german military and sent troops into the demilitarized zone of the Rhineland bordering france

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Hitler

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Is giving in to the demands of an aggression in order to keep the peace

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Appeasement

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Was demoralized and suffering from political division at home

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France

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Saw Hitler and Mussolini’s fascism as a lesser of two evils (compared to communism of the Soviet Union)

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Britain and France

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Opposition to all war, due to the disgust with the destruction from the previous war spread throughout the world

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Pacifism

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Are laws that forbade the sale of arms to any nation at war and outlawed loans to warring nations and prohibited Americans from traveling on ships of warring powers

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Neutrality Acts

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Germany, Italy, and Japan formed what became known as

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Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis

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Union of Austria and Germany

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Anschluss

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A region of western Czechoslovakia-be given autonomy

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Sudetenland

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Bound Hitler and Stalin to peaceful relationships. Secretly the two agreed not to fight if the other end to war and divide up land of Eastern Europe

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Nazi-Soviet Pact

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German forces invaded Poland. Two days later Britain and France declared war on Germany and _______ had started

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World War 2

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Lightning war. Used improve tanks and air power technology to strike a debasing blow against the enemy

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Blitzkrieg

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Or German Air Force would bomb airfields,factories, towns and cities

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Luftwaffe

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In April of 1940 Hitler launched a blitzkrieg against ______ and ______ then he went for and got Netherlands and Belgium

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Norway and Denmark

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An area considered invasion proof

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Ardennes Forest in Belgium

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Was the prime minister of Britian faced Hitler in defiance

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Winston Churchill

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Hitler wanted to plan for an invasion of Britain (_______) and to prep for it he launched massive air strikes against the island nation. They first bombed military spots, but after the British Air Force gave them a challenge, the Germans changed their targets and started to bomb London and other cities

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Sea Lion

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Were United so much that the King and Queen chose to support their people and stay in civilian bomb shelters in the city rather than feeling to the countryside

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British

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True/False: hitler failed to take Britain

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True

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Was known was the (Desert a Fox) and had hit major success in Africa from 1941-1942. He pushed the British back to Cairo, Egypt

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Erwin Rommel

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A plan which takes its name from a medieval Germanic leader Frederick Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa
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Stated that he wanted the raw materials of the Soviet Union. Wanted the wheat fields in Ukraine, the forests of Siberia and wanted to crush communism in Europe and defeat a powerful rival Stalin
Hitler
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Were considered to be an inferior race and they were pushed aside for more living space for the Germans
The Slavs of Eastern Europe
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Are detention centers for civilians who were considered enemies of the state
Concentration Camps
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Used millions of people from all over Europe to work as slave labored (prisoners were poorly fed and worked to death, you would never meant to leave there alive)
Nazis
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Hitler targeted people who were
Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals, and the disables
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Are sections of the city that Jewish people are confined (in these ghettos many Jewish people died from starvation, disease, overwork, and harsh elements)
Ghettos
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A plan which was to kill all the Jews
Final Solution
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Nazis massacred around six million Jews. Total was 12 million people
Holocausr
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Declared they were neutral even though they were neutral many of them were sympathetic for those who fought the axis powers, FDR was one of them
U.S.
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Allowed America to sell or lend war materials to any country whose defense would seem important to U.S. Safety
Lend-Lease Act
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Had held peace negotiations were being held but they went no where
U.S. and Japan
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Japanese planes bombed the American fleet Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Killing 2,400 people and destroying battleship and aircraft. FDR said it Was a day which will live in infamy. He asked congress to declare war on Japan and on Dec 11th Italy and Germany declared war on the U.s. (America had entered ww2)
December 7,1941
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Had no desire to confront german dictator
Britain
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Snapped the energies of the western democracies
The Great Depression
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Passed the neutrality acts
United States
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When he refused to agree to hitter demands, hitler sent in the Germany army to preserve order
Austria Chancellor
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To keep the peace what did hitler say he would do?
The Germans persuaded the Czechs surrender to sudentenland without a fight. Hitler promised he would not expand to any more territories, but he broke his promise took the rest of Czechoslovakia
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Hitler was attacking from the ________. Stalinforces invaded from the ________, grabbing lands promised to them under the nazi soviet pact
Hitler: west Stalin: east
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British sent all available naval vessels, merchant ships, and even fishing and pleasure boats across to channel to pluck stranded troops of to _________. The improvised armed ferried more than 30,000
Beach of Dunkirk
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Hitler stated a new order which grew out his racial obsessions:
His forces conquered most of Europe and hitler set up puppet governments in Western European countries
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Axis power devoted all of their power to
War efforts
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Women in the industries were symbolized by a character in the U.S.
Rosie the Riveter
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Is someone who puts the bolts in pieces of metal
Riveter
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Is used to construct airplanes, tanks, etc
Metal
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Served in the armed forces in many auxiliary roles such as: driving ambulances, delivering airplanes, and decoding messages
British and American women
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Battle lasted for 5 days and was the first time in naval history enemy ships never saw each other. Japanese were guarding their islands while the Americans sank one Japanese aircraft carriers and several cruisers and destroyers
Battle of Coral Sea
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Are ships that transport aircraft and accommodate the takeoff and landing of planes
Aircraft Carrier
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Was fought entirely from the air. The Americans destroyed four Japanese carriers and more than 250 planes. After this battle the Japanese were unable to launch any more offensive operations
Battle of Midway
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In North Africa the British led by General Bernard Montgomery fought _________
Rommel (Desert Fox)
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The allies finally halted the desert fox's advanced. Allied tanks drove the axis back across Libya into Tunisia
Battle of El Alamein
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Took command of a joint British and American force in Morocco and Algeria
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Launched a new offensive. Targeted rich oil fields of the south but his troops only went as far as Stalingard
Hitler
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Was the bloodiest battle of ww2. Was held in city streets, the Germans and Russian would fight and kill each other. Even though Germans took over certain positions in the city they were never able to capture the key crossing points along the river banks. After this battle the allies started attacking the Germans instead of waiting for the Germans to attack them
Battle of Stalingard
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The most famous soviet sniper in Stalingard
Vastly Zaytsev
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June 6,1994 the invasion of _____. On June 5 allies sent paratroopers behind enemy lines. June 6 the allies sent thousands of ships that were carrying 156,000 troops across the English Channel the troops fought their way to the shore, they faced underwater mines, barbed wires, bombs, and machine-gun Fire as they charged the german fortification
France (Normandy Beach a Key Point in this attack)
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Helped the joint british and American forces break through german defense and advance through Paris. By August 25 the allies had entered Paris and within a month france and as free
American General George S Patton
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Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met at Yalta. The three leaders agreed that the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan within three months of Germany's surrender and in return Churchill and Roosevelt promised Stalin that the Soviets would take possession of southern Sakhalin Island, the Kuir Islands and an occupation zone in Korea. Also agreed that Germany would be divided into four zones
Yalta Conference
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Met and shook hands at the Elbe River all over Europe, Axis armies began to surrender
American and Russian
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Captured and executed Mussolini
Italy Guerillas
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May 7 Germany officially surrendered this day was known as
VE DAY (Victory in Europe Day)
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Had won an uninterrupted series of victories. Controlled much of the Southeast Asia and many pacific islands
Japanese
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Jap had gained control of the Philippines, killing several hundred American soldiers and as many as 10,000 Filipino soldiers during the 65-mile
Bataan Death March
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Took offensive and started a campaign of "island hopping" which was to recapture that Japanese held islands
U.S.
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Gradually moved north towards Japan
Douglas Mac MacArthur
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Blockaded Japan, and American bombers pounded Japanese cities and industries
Admiral Chester Nimitz
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The two bloodiest battles against Japan. Showed that the Japanese would not surrender under any cost
Battle of Iwo Jima and Okinawa
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Japanese pilots who were selected to do suicide dive bomb missions in enemy ships
Kamikaze Pilots
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Allies used _________scientist in figuring out how to harness that power and create a bomb
German and Italian
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A project named this because the army component the design of the project was designated the Manhattan district and by 1945 the first atomic bomb was tested in New Mexico
Manhattan Project
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Took office because FDR died
Harry Turman
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On August 6 an American Planed dropped atomic bomb over the city. Flattened four square miles killing more than 7,000 people instantly and killing many more after the bomb. The Japanese did not believe that Americans had that power and again ignored the surrender please from the allies
Hiroshima
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August 9 the u.s. Dropped a second bomb
Nagasaki
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August 10 emperor_________ intervent and surrender
Hirohito
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Where Hitler had stage mass rallies in the 1930's these were known was the (Nuremberg Trails)
Nuremberg
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Allowed each of its member nations to one vote at the General Assembly
Un charter
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U.s., Russia, Britian,France and China. Goal was to ensure peace around the world. Had power to apply economic sanctions or send a peacekeeping military force to resolve disputes
Security Council
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The tension between the United States and the Soviet Union
Cold War
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Pushed German forces out of Eastern Europe leaving behind armies to occupy the newly acquired areas
The red army (russian army)
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Was good in the idea of containment of communism or limiting communism to areas that were under soviet control
Truman Doctrine
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To strengthen democratic government the U.s. Offered a massive package. U.s. Funneled food and economic assistance to Europe to help countries rebuild
Marshall plan
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U.s., Canada, and the other countries formed a new military alliance. Pledged to help one another if anyone of them were attacked
North Atlantic a Treaty Orgainzation
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Included the Soviet Union and seven satellite in Eastern Europe this pact made sure that all russian satellite nations stayed aligned with Russia
Warsaw Pact

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