test 4 Flashcards by Nicki Robles

Hitler comes to power in
Germany

1933

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WW lI begins when Germany invades Poland

1939

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Germany invades USSR
(Operation Barbarossa)

june 1941

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Battle of Midway marks the turning point of the Pacific
Theater

june 1942

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Allied invasion of France (D-
Day)

june 1944

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german surrenders (V-E Day)

May 1945

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Japan surrenders (V-J Day)

september 1945

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from latin fasces

facism

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religion of state

totalitarianism

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anti communist

revolutionary nationalism

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market serves the state

crony capitalism

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head over heart

romanticism

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socialist nationalist blackshirts

benito mussolini

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democratic , but unpopular

weimar republic

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antisemitism

jewish racsism

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served in german army blames jews for defeat leader of german nazism

adolf hitler

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nationalist socialist party

nazi

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failed nazi attempt to overthrow weimar government by force

beer hall putsch

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hitlers autobiography + political manifesto contains key ideas

mein Kampf

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hitlers ideals

hated+ fear of jews racial superiority of thr german folk

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volk

people

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how does hitler call the masses to action

heart over head

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living space

lebensraum

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pro-german anti communist propaganda

goebbels

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who was blamed by hitler for the reichtag fire

communist

granted german government to make laws w/o power of reichtag

enabling act

Nazi german empire

the third reich

realm

reich

20-30,000 killed, mostly civilians

nanjing massacre

leader of nationalist china

chiang

leader of communist china

mao

mussolinis mediterranean empire

ethiopia

Nationalists vs Republicans Francisco Franco "International Brigades" "Proving Ground for WWII"

spanish civil war

anti- comintern Pac

german + japan

Czech Germans

sudetenland

Allowed Germany to annex Sudentenland

munich Pact

‘appeasement” “peace in our time”

neville chamberlain

nonaggression split spoils of war

Nazi- Soviet Pact

blitzkreig

lightning war

massacre at the katlyn forest

declassified by USSR in 1990

Betrays Norway

Vidkun Quisling

vidkun quisling

betrays Norway

Nazi Pupit State

Vichy France

Leader of Vicy France

Marshall Petain

evacuation of over 38,000 allied troops at france

miracle at dun kirk

planned invasion of britain

operation sea-lion

production quality technology intangible

brittish advantages

italys target

suez canal

leader of africa corps

Erwin Rommel

invasion of USSR June 22, 1941

operation Barbosa

president can sell supplies to essential nations

lend-lease Act

japan surprise attack on US naval base in Hawaii

Pearl Harbor

Arsenal of Democracy

USA

Allied Strategy

Kill Germany Fast

Secure US Recourses for ther allies

Battle of Atlantic

goal: liberate North Africa First US deployment since WWI

Operation Torb

August of 42 - february of 43 2 million casualties

battles of stalingrad

greatest tank battle of WW2

battle of Kursk

allied invasion of german-occupied Western Europe

operation overlord

invasion begins on normandy beaches

D-Day

fighting red tails

tuskegee airman

Nazi Assasination attempt on hitler

operation valkyrie

last major german offensive against the west

battle of the bulge

moving form island to island capturing and moving

island hopping

allied ships deafeated by japanese pilots

battle of Java sea

Us leader in the Philippines

Douglas Mcarthur

key locations an invasion of phillipines

bataan and corrigedor

Col. Jimmy Doolittle

US leader of tokyo raid

Strike japan at home

goal of Tokyo raid

Japanese expansion raid

Strike Japan at home

japanese expansion stopped

battle of the coral sea

who won the battle of midway

turning point in the pacific

battle of midway

first major US counteroffensive Navy+ Marines take and hold henderson field

battle of guadlacanal

Mt. Surabachi

battle of two jima

last island before japanese homeland

okinawa

operation decision

japan attack on usa

operation downfall

usa attack japan

Goal: Develop an atomic bomb 15 years of work in 5 years

manhattan project

cities atom bomb dropped on

Hiroshima (first) Nagasaki (Second)

where did the big three meet

tehran

Declaration of Liberated Europe Germany: Unconditional Surrender Poland Betrayed

Yalta

Truman, Atlee, Stalin Germany broken into four occupation zones Japanese: Unconditional Surrender

Potsdam

goal of holocaust

Eliminate undesirables

anti communist

revolutionary nationalism

Market serves the State

crony capitalism

head over heart

romanticism

head over to

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