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Review for World War II in Europe Test (89 cards)

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The Treaty of Versailles

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The Treaty at the end of World War I

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Weimar Republic

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Kellogg-Briand Pact

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disarmament of Germany war is a political tool

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Totalitarianism

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total rule and with a iron fist

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Communism

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not publicly or privately 0wned everything is shared

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Fascism

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Nazism

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The new political party of Germany and beliefs of Adolf Hitler

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Isolationism

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To stay alone and out of foreign affairs

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The Rhineland

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Austrian province that Hitler wanted

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The Anschluss

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The Sudentenland

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land in Czechoslovakia that alot of German speaking people lived in

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The Munich Conference

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the conference that allowed Germany to take the Sudetenland

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Appeasement

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to bring peace quiet contentment to an enemy

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Non-Aggression Pact

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a agreement of none fighting

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Neville Chamberlain

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british prime minister who talked to Hitler about no conflict

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Winston Churchill

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british Prime minster who served through the rest of the war

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Adolph Hitler

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Nazi Germanys new dictator and over all powder keg of ww2

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Benito Mussolini

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Italy’s fascist leader

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Josef Stalin

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Communist leader of the Soviet Union

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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President of the United states

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The Neutrality Laws

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laws made by the us government to stay out of foreign affairs

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“Cash and Carry”

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Americans way of giving Britain arms by having the Britaish pay for armaments and “carry” them back to GB

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The Axis Powers

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Germany, Japan, Italy entered an alliance to rule the world

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Sept. 1st 1939
German Invasion of Poland
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Poland
Slavic speaking country , a.k.a. "Little Brother to USSR
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Latvia/Lituania/Estonia
Eastern European countries invaded and allied to the Axis Powers
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The Phony War
The movement of troops before the actual fighting
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Tha Maginot Line
France's largest defense against Germany. Destroyed by the Blitzkrieg
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Dunkirk
British and French retreat to the beaches of Dunkirk, while German's were in pursuit. Churchill sent a country wide message to rescue the troops off the beaches
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Vichy France
Headquarters of the French REsistance
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Marshal Petain
Leader of the French forces, and then leader of the French Resistance
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The Luftwaffe
Germany 's main air force
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The RAF
Britain's Royal Air Force
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The Battle of Britain
A air superiority war between RAF and the Luftwaffe
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The Spitfire
Britain's main fighter aircraft
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The BF 109
Luftwaffe's best fighter
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Radar
Britain's design in tracking enemy aircraft
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Enigma
Type of code Germany used to code messages to their generals
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Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Main commanding general in North African campaign, aka "the Desert Fox"
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The Afrika Korps
Germany's new fighting group in Africa
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Tobruk
Major port city in Egypt
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El Alamein
Major battle between the German's and the British, in Egypt
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Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery
New commanding general of the British Desert forces
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Operation Barbarossa
Hitlers ambitious plan to attack USSR
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Stalingrad
Major battle that was a failure for the German's. 900,000 German prisoners.
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Kursk
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Lend Lease
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The Atlantic Charter
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Pearl Harbor
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Dec. 7th 1941
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Rationing
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Rosie the Riveter
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Operation Torch
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Dwight D Eisenhower
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George S Patton
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The Kasserine Pass
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The Invasion of Sicily (Sept 1943- Aug 1944)
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King Victor Emmanuel III
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B17 Flying Fortress
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Anti-Semitism
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The Holocaust
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The Final Solution
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Death Camps
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The Tehran Conference
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Operation Overlord
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June 6th 1944
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Amphibious Invasion
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The Atlantic Wall
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"Fortress Wall"
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The D-Day Invasion
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Normandy
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Omaha
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Utah
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Gold
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Sword
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Juno
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Cherbourg
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V-1
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V-2
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The Ardennes
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The 101st Airborne Division
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Bastogne
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General Anthony McAuliffe
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"Nuts"
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The Yalta Conference
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Admiral Karl Doenitz
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VE Day
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May 8th 1945
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