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Chapter 23, 24 Study Guide
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7th Grade
04/02/2009

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Adolf Hitler
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Began Holocaust. Led Nazis into persecution of the Jews. He wrote a book called "My Struggle" and went to prison.
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Fransisco Franco
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Led the Revolution in Spain.
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Charles de Gaulle
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He was the leader of the Free French Government. Became President of France
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President Herbert Hoover
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Was elected in 1928. Blamed for causing the Great Depression
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General Douglas MacArthur
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Military governor of occupied Japan. Helped in the Korean War.
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Mitsuo Fukida
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He led the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, and later became a Christian in 1950.
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Nikita Khrushched
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Took Stalin's place after his death. Spoke peace between communism and the free world.
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General Sir Benard Montgomery
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pushed all the way to tripoli in Libya.
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Joseph Stalin
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Dictator of Russia. Fought Hitler. Conquered some of Europe for Communists.
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What was the Cold War? Who fought it? Two ways America fought Communist Aggression?
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It was not a real war. Rather a war of words and diplomacy. Fought between Soviet Union and U.S.A.... They fought by resisting with the Policy of Containment and the Marshall Plan.
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Dec. 7, 1941
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Sunday that Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
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OPEC
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Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
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Holocaust
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Persecution of Jews by Nazis in Germany. Spread through Europe. Led by Hitler.
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What canal links Atlantic and Pacific?
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Panama Canal
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The United Nations Headquarters were located in...?
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New York
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Policy of Containment
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Declaring that the U.S. would provide economic aid to any free country to help it resist Communist Aggression.
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What war ended in stalemate?
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Korean War.
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Fidel Castro
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overthrew the Cuban dictator of Fulgencia Batista. An avowed Communist.
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Margaret Thatcher
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Britain's first woman Prime Minister
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Which country universally remained neutral through it all?
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Switzerland.
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Israel became nation? under who?
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In May 1948 under David BenGurion.
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Third World consisted of?
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Neutral Nations
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Gandhi
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Hindu nationalist from India.
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De`tente
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is a lessening of tension or hostility between nations.
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Neil Armstrong was known for?
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Being the First American astronaut to walk on the Moon.
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Benito Mussolini
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Socialist who organized fascist party in Italy. Captured and shot by Italian patriots
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The New Deal was under what president?
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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General Erwin Rommel
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Led Afrika Corps across Libya and into Egypt.
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D-day!
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June 6, 1944. largest amphibious assault
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Battle of Bulge
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Germans last great offensive in the West.
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What splits east and west Berlin?
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The Berlin Wall
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Hiroshimo was the first city....
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bombed with atomic bomb.
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Operation airlift helped what country?
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Berlin.
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Marshall Plan
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declared U.S. would help recover any European nations from World War II
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