WWII - Sheet1

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Germany, Italy, Japan

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Axis Powers

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Leader of Japan

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Tojo

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total years of WWII

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1939-1945

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US citizens rationed key items such as sugar, gas and tires to ensure the troop’s needs were taken care of

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rationing coupons

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last offensive attack by the Germans in Belgium

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Battle of the Bulge

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spoke an unbreakable code for the US intelligence and communication

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Navajo

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fought to control an airstrip, snakes, scorpions and a hot climate were factors. location of the Sullivan Brother tragedy

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Guadalcanal

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used the blitzkrieg approach to take out land locked countries

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Hitler’s expansion

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too far from Japan, harbor too shallow for a torpedo attack, sabotage was more likely

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Pearl Harbor assumptions

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Leader of Italy for much of the war. Hitler’s puppet who took North Africa and was ultimately killed by his own people.

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Mussolini

Question 11

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ship sunk at Pearl Harbor in 7 minutes killing 400

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Oklahoma

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1st bombed dropped

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Little Boy

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US General in charge of the Pacific Theater

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MacArthur

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told Soviets we didn’t need their help anymore in Asia, issued the Potsdam Declaration

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Potsdam Conference

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ship sunk at Pearl Harbor in 9 minutes killing 1100

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Arizona

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Invasion of Italy

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Op. Avalanche

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Date Pearl Harbor was attacked

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12/7/1941

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split Germany into 4 zones, agreed the US would stop at the Elbe River and allow Soviets to take Berlin, created the United Nations and asked Soviets to help us fight in Asia

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Yalta Conference

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Germany’s invasion of Russia

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Op. Barbarossa

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Italian leader who overthrew Mussolini

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Badoglio

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Germany’s invasion of Great Britain

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Op. Sea Lion

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didn’t send a 3rd wave, missed oil tankers, repair shops and aircraft carriers

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Japanese mistakes

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1st major victory for the US in the Pacific. Significant because Japan can not rebuild their military

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Midway

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British General in charge of taking North Africa

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Montgomery

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# . warned Japan to surrender unconditionally or face total destruction

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Potsdam Declaration

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# . US policy to keep us out of WWII

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Neutrality Act of 1939

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# . operation to deceive the Germans as to where the official point of attack would be in France, blow up tanks and spies used

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Op. Fortitude

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# . gas chambers, incinerators, mass graves, medical experimentation

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Concentration camps

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# . Hitler's defensive structure that ran from Norway to France

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Atlantic Wall

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# . famous singer of the 1940s

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Frank Sinatra

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# . houses Germany agriculture and industry, first to be taken in Hitler's expansion

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Rhineland

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# . 7 month period of inactivity which Hitler used to rebuild his military

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Phony War

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# . Allied invasion of France at Normandy beach. heaviest casualties at Omaha beach

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D-Day Invasion

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# . battle where kamikazes were used the most

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Okinawa

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# . forced removal of Japanese Americans into camps because the govt. feared they were a threat to national security

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Japanese-American Internment

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# . Study the map!!

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Map

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# . 2nd bomb dropped

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Fat Man

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# . German General in charge of North Africa and known as the desert fox

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Rommel

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# . symbol for women to encourage them to work in munition factories

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Rosie the Riveter

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# . US General in charge of 1 million ficticious soldiers as part of Operation Fortitude

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Patton

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# . VP under Roosevelt who took over when Roosevelt died. Responsible for dropping the atomic weapon.

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Truman

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# . Invasion of France

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Op. Overlord

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# . President of the US during much of the War

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Roosevelt

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# . operation to decode the Japanese message system by reading a message on the open airways regarding a desalinization machine

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Op. Magic

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# . name of the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb

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Enola Gay

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# . froze money, stopped selling them goods, sent notes of protest

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US response to Japanese Expansion

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# . 5 brothers who were all on the same ship when it was sunk, killing all 5. Forced US to change policies regarding families serving in a war.

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Sullivan Brothers

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# . US policy to loan arms to Great Britain with the expectation they would be returned or replaced

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Lend-Lease Act

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# . Britain, France, US and Russia

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Allied Powers

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# . suicide mission by the Japanese at Okinawa

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kamikaze

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# . Russian policy where they would destroy Russian property so the Germans could not use anything

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Scorched Earth Policy

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# . fought in segregated units, allowed to join the marine corp and broke the color barrier with the Tuskegee Airmen

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African Americans

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# . name of the British airforce

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RAF

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# . Leader of Great Britain during the War

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Churchill

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# . Secret scientific project to create the atomic bomb

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Manhattan Project

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# . US General in charge of the D-Day invasion

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Eisenhower

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# . 2nd Japanese city that was bombed by an atomic weapon called Fat Man

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Nagasaki

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# . held individuals accountable for crimes against humanity

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Nuremberg Trials

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# . name of the German airforce

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Luftwaffe

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# . bloodiest battle in Marine Corp history, proved the Japanese would fight till their very last man; famous flag picture taken here

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Iwo Jima

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# . Leader of Russia

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Stalin

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# . Invasion of Poland and the official start of WWII

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9/1/1939

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# . What you have to take in order to take the country

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The Capital

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# . series of treaties signed by Japan and the US among others that promised they would respect each other's holdings in the Pacific

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4,5,9 power treaties

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# . provides low interest to veterans to buy a house, start a business, or go to college

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GI Bill of Rights

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# . 1st Japanese city that was bombed by an atomic weapon called Little Boy

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Hiroshima

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# . night of the broken glass, the night the Holocaust officially began

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Kristallnacht

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# . Hitler's wife who was killed by Hitler soon after their marriage

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Eva Braun

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# . country Hitler invaded to start WWII

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Poland

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# . mass killing of 6 million Jews and 5 million others

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Holocaust

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# . US General in charge of relocating Japanese Americans to internment camps

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Dewitt

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# . Invasion of North Africa

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Op. Torch

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# . name given to the US because they are the only ones with a nuclear weapon

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Super Power

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# . midget sub sunk, planes on the radar, East Wind Rain

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Pearl Harbor warning signs

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# . Leader of Germany

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Hitler

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# . type of invasion where soldiers go from water to land

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Amphibious

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# . 100 mile march where US and Filipino soldiers where beaten, tortured and starved to death

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Bataan Death March

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# . Comedian and entertainer of the troops during WWII

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Bob Hope

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# . famous big band director of the 1940s

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Glen Miller

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# . US strategy in the Pacific where we would hop over islands and only focus on the ones that helped us take Japan

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Island Hopping