WWII Flashcards

(74 cards)

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President of Germany before war

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Hindenburg

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Machine Gun King

Leader of paramilitary and SA

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Ernst Rohm

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Vice chancellor who helped Hitler into office

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Von Papen

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Fascist dictator in Spain after Spanish Civil War

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Francisco Franco

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First British Prime Minister

Munich Conference gives Hitler Sudetenland

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Neville Chamberlain

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Second British Prime Minister

Part of Big Three

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Churchill

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First US president

Declares war

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Roosevelt

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Second US president

Declared use of atomic bomb

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Truman

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Leader of Soviet Union

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Stalin

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Head of tanks for US army

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Patton

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Supreme Allie commander

European

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Eisenhower

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Supreme Allie commander
Pacific
Philippines war

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McArthur

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12
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Leader of Italy

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Mussolini

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Leader of army in El Alamein

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Montgomery

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German army general

Retreats to Tunisia

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Rommel

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15
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Attacks Stalingrad

6th army

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Friedrich Paulus

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16
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Leader of Free France

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Henri Petain

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18
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Retreats from Philippines

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Edward King

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19
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First concentration camp

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Danchau

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20
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Battle of Dunkirk

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France falls to German power

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21
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Upper France

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Occupied

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22
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Lower France

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Free
Vichy
“Puppet State”

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Nazi official

Leader of SS

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Himmler

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Japan blows up own railway

Blames China

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Mukden Incident

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Japanese plan to take over Asia
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
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Unites Japan with Italy and Germany
Tripartite Pact
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Chinese civilians raped by Japanese troops
Rape of Nanjing
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Unites Austria with Germany
Anschluss
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Western portion of Czech
Sudetenland
30
German Empire
Reich
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Neutrality treaty between Soviet Union and Germany
Russian-German Treaty of nonaggression
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Nazi Airforce
Luftwaffe
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Living Space for Aryan
Lebensraum
34
Nazi Tank
Panzer
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Silent German bombs
V-2
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"Lightning war" Bombing by German War tactic
Blitzkrieg
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Submarine
U-boats
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Plan to invade Soviet Union
Operation Barbarossa
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US policy to British | Supplies for cash
Cash and carry
40
US policy towards British and Soviet Union | War goods
Lend and lease
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Japanese suicide bombers
Kamikaze
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Little boy | Bombed
Hiroshima
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Fat Man | Bombed
Nagasaki
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Black's silent protest
March of Washington
45
Blacks move North
Great Migration
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Revenge on Japan after Pearl Harbor
Doolittle Raids
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Surrounded Starved within 900 days
Leningrad
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Turning points
El Alamein Midway Stalingrad
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Leader of Bureau if Public Enlightenment
Joseph Goebbels
50
American walk to camps in Philippines
Batan Death March
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German bombed cities
Dresden | Berlin
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US Native American Code
Navajo
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Broke Japanese code
Magic
54
German Code
Enigma
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US won't sell weapons to warring countries
Neutrality Act
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Spanish Civil War
King abdicates Mussolini and Hitler help Battle of Guernica
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Ethiopia
Taken by Italy
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Italian army
Black Shirts
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Fascist youth
Black Wolves
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Makes Jews second class citizens
Nuremberg Laws
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Hitler and SA shoot bar ceiling | Claim start of revolution
Munich Beer Hall March
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Anti-Hitler newspaper
Munich Post
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Weak German government
Weimar Government
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"Stab in the Back"
Loss of WWI
65
Night of Long Knives
Killing of SA
66
Secret police in Germany
Gestapo
67
Beaches of Normandy
``` Sword Gold Utah Omaha Juno ```
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Ardennes Forest
Battle of the Bulge | Hitlers last Battle
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War starts
September 1, 1939
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Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941
71
D-day
June 6, 1944
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End of war
September 2, 1945
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Head of Luftwaffe
Goering
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Largest concentration camp | In Poland
Auschwitz