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WW11 Flashcards

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focus on ones country

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isolationism

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giving in to prevent war

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appeasement

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agreement between Germany Italy and Japan

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tripartite act

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us lends arms/supplies to allies

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Lend Lease Act

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secret agreement between Churchill and FDR to help Britain win war

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Atlantic Charter

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150,000 women join non combat positions in war

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women’s auxiliary army corp

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attempt to keep us out of war, could not sell or lend to countries that were in war

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neutrality acts

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used to protect working conditions

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labor unions

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act as a dispute to Settle strikes

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national war labor board

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9
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draft

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selective service & training acts

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10
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“lightning war” German pushed into Europe

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blitzkrieg

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Pearl Harbor

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December 7 1941

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invasion of Poland

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September 1 1939

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13
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Bombing of Hiroshemia

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august 6 1945

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bombing of Nagasaki

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August 9 1945

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d-day

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June 6 1944

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Germans tried to attack for oil and let hurler have it

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battle of Stalin grad

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V-E day

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May 8 1945

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Germans try to attack allies German last attempt

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battle of the bulge

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us vs japan on island

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battle of Iwo Jima

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British soviet and us come together to decide what to do with Germany

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yalta conference

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trials for war crimes

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Nuremberg trials

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German word for union

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Anschluss

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French general that established French government after annexed

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Charles de Gaulle

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British primeminister

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Winston Churchill

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blamed for Pearl Harbor

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hideki Tojo

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fighting for peace

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United Nations

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head of manhattan project

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Robert Oppenheimer

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warned FDR about Germany making atomic bomb

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Albert Einstein

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Japan Italy and Germany

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axis powers

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Britain soviet USA

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allies

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supreme allied commander president after Truman

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Dwight Eisenhower

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best general

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general George Patton

33
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turns companies into war supplies

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war production board

34
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us clears out islands getting to japan

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island hopping

35
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building of atomic bomb

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Manhattan project

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gets scientists involved in atomic bomb

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office of scientific rea search and development

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