WW2 Flashcards

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Ruler of Italy

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Benito Mussolini (and his followers called blackshirts)

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Allied powers

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USSR
US
China
France
Great Britain
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Ruler of Germany

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Adolph Hitler

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Ruler of USSR

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Joseph Stalin

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What was the Nuremberg trials

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German war crime trials against hitler and the nazis

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Ruler of Spain

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Francisco Franco

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Name of ruling party in Germany

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Nazi or National Socialist

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Axis powers

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Germany
Italy
Japan

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Hitlers March

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Rhineland-1936
Austria-1938
Sudetenland-1938
Czechoslovakia-1939
Poland-1939
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What was Kristallnacht

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Jewish businesses and synagogues were destroyed by nazis

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Rulers of Great Britain

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Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill

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What started world war 2

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Germany invaded Poland

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Rulers of Japan

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Hirohito and Tojo

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Rulers of USA

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Harry Truman

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Who did Germany have a non aggression pact with

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USSR

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Ruler of China

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Chaing Kai-Shek

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What is appeasement

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Giving in to demands of Germany to avoid larger conflict

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What happened on D-day

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The allies landed in Normandy, France on June 6, 1944. Day operation overlord began

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What was the holocaust

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Systematic slaughter of European Jews and other groups by hitler and his nazis

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Why did the USSR join the allied forces

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Germany broke pact and invaded them

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Rulers of France

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Edward Daladier

Charles De Gaulle

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What was internment

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Forced relocation of Japanese Americans

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What was island hopping

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Air and sea power were the key to victory in the pacific. Only attacked strategic islands

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Name of plane that dropped atomic bombs on japan

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What was V-E day
Victory in Europe, day after Germany surrendered, May 8, 1945
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What is genocide
Slaughter of an entire people
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Crushed all political opposion
Brownshirts
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Two Japanese cities that were bombed
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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What day did Japan surrender
September 2,1945
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People who believed that a military government should control aspects of society
Fascists (founded by Benito Mussolini in 1921)
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People that were born in Japan and not eligible for citizenship
Issei 1/3
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The leader of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia
Vladimir Lenin, died in 1924
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People who were still loyal to king of Spain
Loyalists
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Why did hitler target the Jews
Resented them for the success in business | Blamed them for the downfall of Germany
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Soviet premier that told people about Stalins atrocities
Nikita Khrushchev
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Book that hitler wrote in prison. His plans to control everything
Mein Kampf
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Who did hitler target
``` Jews Gypsies Polish people Jehovah's witnesses Handicapped People in the Ghettos ```
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People who were born in US and were legal citizens
Nisei 2/3
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Government had complete control
Totalitarian state
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Allies took back Frances conquered territories in North Africa
Operation torch
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Why did hitler target the polish people
Considered them "subhuman" | Wanted their land for living space
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The name for the allied invasion of German occupied France
Operation overlord
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The policy of genocide
The Final Solution
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The creation of the atomic bombs
Manhattan project
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Naval base in Oahu, Hawaii
Pearl harbour
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Day Germany surrendered
May 7,1945
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Name of Hitlers government
Third Reich
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Why did hitler target Jehovah's witnesses
Didn't like that they put their religion before nazi | Refused to fight in the war
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What day was Paris liberated
August 5,1944
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What day did hitler invade Poland
September 1, 1939
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First axis capital to fall
Italy
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Why did hitler target gypsies
From India, Sinti and Roma tribes | Practiced witchcraft
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How did Hitler die
Committed suicide on April 30, 1945
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Why did hitler target the handicapped
Was afraid they would pass their deformities to their offspring Considered people who were depressed or who had epilepsy, handicapped
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Battle of the bulge
Allies were in German territory, September,1944