western civ chapter idk (Japan unit)

Question 1

Japan sought to establish what they called the

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greater east asia company prosperity sphere

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for the military, the highest honor they could gain in battle was to

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die for their emperor

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surrender was considered a

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disgrace

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emperor of japan

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emperor hirohito

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Japan attacked the us; gets the us into WWII

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December 7, 1941; pearl harbor

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…?… is ordered by FDR to leave for australia where he issues his famous …?… declaration

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general Douglass macarthur; I shall return

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76,000 American and filipino troops surrender

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the Bataan death march

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Japanese navy is stopped in the attempt to capture port moresby

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battle of coral sea

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commander and chief of the u.s. pacific fleet during wwii

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chester w. nimitz

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supreme allied commander in the Pacific theatre during wwii

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Douglass macarthur

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led the air raid on tokyo

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jimmy doolittle

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Americans at home followed the war

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newsreels

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were placed in the windows of Americans who lost loved ones during the war

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gold stars

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it is the turning point of the war in the pacific

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battle of midway

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first land victory for us in the pacific

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battle guadalcanal

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most famous image of WWII, classic flag raising on mt. suribachi

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battle of Iwo jima

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first assault on the Japanese home isalnds

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battle of okinawa

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kamikazes

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divine wind

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code name for the atomic bomb project

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the Manhatten project

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first nuclear explosion was on us soil July 16, 1945

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trinity

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on August 15, 1945 Japan surrenders

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VJ-day

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will be the military governor of occupied japan

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general Douglass macarthur

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the internment of the Japanese americans

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Japanese Americans were targeted as potentially disloyal; they were viewed as potential spies for the Japanese government

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the father of communism

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Karl marx

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leader of the Soviet revolution and ruler of russia

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Vladimir lenin

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schutzstaffel

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protection squad

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GEheime STAatsPOlizei

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gestapo

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elite army units

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waffen SS

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execution squads that followed the 3 German armies into russia

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einsatzgruppen

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laws denied Jews the rights to citizenship

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the Nuremberg laws

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kristallnacht

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night of broken glass

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Jews were forced to war the

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star of david

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1942; it was at this conference where the nazi's came up with the endlosung or "final solution" to the jewish question

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wannsee conference

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death camps

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auschwitz, treblinka, Dachau, belzec

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Nuremberg trials (1946)

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international military tribunal

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lead prosecutor for the allies was U.S. supreme court justice

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robert jackson

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charges leveled against the defendants

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-waging aggressive war -crimes against humanity -war crimes -conspiracy to commit acts 1-3

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Simon wiesenthal

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nazi hunter

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post-holocaust genocides

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-kampuchea (Cambodia) -rwanda -bosnia

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in 1947, ...?... created the state of Israel as a homeland for the jews

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united nations

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Israel captured and occupied land from all 3 countries

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the 6 day war, 1967

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1973; on Oct 6 Egypt and Syria attacked Israel enjoying complete surprise

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war of yom kippur