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CH 16.1
CHS9 Vinton
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History
9th Grade
02/20/2013

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Charles de Gaulle
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French General set up government in exile in London organized free french military forces fought until france was liberated
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Winston Churchill
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Prime minster of Britain declared he would never give in/ never surrender great speaker
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Dunkirk
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a french port city near belgium allies retreated there and got rescued by the british navy and others
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Enigma
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the name that the germans gave to a code making machine
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Erwin Rommel
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nick name the "desert fox" german general commanded tanks in north africa
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Lend-Lease Act
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lend or lease arms any country vital to the untied states
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What did the Soviets do in the September of 1939?
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sent troops to occupy eastern half of poland
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who was the head of the Vichy government and where?
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Marshal Phillippe Petain and in Vichy
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What were the effects of the fall of France?
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Italy’s entry into the war, the creation of the Vichy government, the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk
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Tobruk
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a town in Lydia were british forces retreated afters Rommel's africa core attacked a year later Rommel captures Tobruk
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How did the Battle of Britain raise British morale?
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showed Germany could be blocked
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Operation Barbarossa
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Hitlers plan to invade the Soviet Union
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Did Leningrad fall? What happened after?
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Leningrad did not fall, but the impatient Germans moved on to Moscow, where the Soviet general Zhukov counterattacked. Hitler demanded his troops stay – despite their summer uniforms which costed them 500,000 troops
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