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HI 102 test 4
pages 379-386
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11/10/2011

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Stuka
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German ______ dive bombers destroyed the weak Polish air force on the ground
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Panzer
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German tank
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blitzrieg
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a fast, heavy assault by motorized forces and air power, also known as "lightning war"
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sitzkreig
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"sitting down war"
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Vidkum Quisling
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a traitor, that installed the as the head of the Nazi puppet government
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Dunkirk
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French troops who had assembled in northern France to block the Nazi advance were soon pushed to the coast of little _________ on the English Channel
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Royal Air Force(RAF)
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this was British, they held off the Germans just long enough for hundreds of British vessels of all kinds, both military and civilian, to ferry more than 300,000 British and French soldiers across the channel to safety in England
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Marshal Henri Petain
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a WWI hero, came to power in the French government and asked Hitler for an armistice, which he agreed to at the time
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Vichy
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France all fell to surrender under the Nazis except this small zone in southern France
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Free French Government
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the French organized this when they had escaped to Great Britain
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General Charles de Gaulle
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leader of the Free French governmnent
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Operation Sea-Lion
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Hitler made plans to invade and conquer Great Britain
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Luftwaffe
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Germany's mighty air force
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Winston Churchill
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became Prime Minister of Great Britain during the war
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Battle of Britain
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Hitler hurled his bombers against England beginning this ________
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radar
Definition
the RAF turned the tables with this invention
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pocket battleships
Definition
warships designed to meet the size limitations imposed of Germany's navy by the Treaty of Versailles
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Erwin Rommel
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Field Marshall, known as the "Desert Fox," reconquered all of the territories lost by the Italians to the British and began to menace Egypt anew
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Neutrality Act of 1937
Definition
Congrass passed this to continue the terms of the earlier legislation and adopted the important "cash and carry" principle for dealing with warring nations
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Lend-Lease Act
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Congrass passed this which granted the President sweeping powers to sell, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of war materials to any nation whose defense he felt to be vital to American security
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Panay
Definition
Japan sank this American gunboat on the Yangtze river, making it clear that Japan would not permit the US to stand in the way of Asian conquest and domination
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