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History Chapter 25 PCS
WW2 in a nutshell
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10th Grade
05/28/2013

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Hirohito
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Emperor of Japan during WW2
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Machuria
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Chinese Province that Japan attacked
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lack of resources
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Why Japan adopted a policy of military agression
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Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
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Why the US entered the war
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McArthur
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Supreme Allied Commander of the Pacific
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Battle of Coral Sea
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first naval battle where ships did not see each other
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Leyte Gulf
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battle where Japanese resorted to kamakazi
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Tojo
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top military warlord of japan
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Island Hopping
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allies naval tactic in the Pacific
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McArthur
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military governor of japan after the war
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Manhattan Project
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name of project for building the atomic bomb
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Hiroshima
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first city that atomic bomb was dropped on
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Great Depresion
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world wide economic upheaval of 1930s
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1- WW1 and Versaille Treaty
2- great depression
3- rise of facism
4- same causes of WW1
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basic causes of WW2
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Mussolini
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the father of facism
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1- military state
2- totalitarian dictatorship
3- protection of social classes
4- use of scapegoat class or race
5- atheistic materialism
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basic elements of facism
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Jessie Owens
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man who embarrassed Hitler at 1936 Olympics
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Chamberlain
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prime minister of England before war
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Churchill
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prime minister of Britain during war
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Ethiopia
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first nation conquered by fascist italy
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September 3, 1939
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date that WW2 officially began
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Eisenhower
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Supreme allied commander of Europe
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Rommel
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leader of Germany's Afrika Korps
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Dunkirk
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French town where allied troops were forced to evacuate
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blitzkreig
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Hitler's newly invented style of fighting with tanks
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holocaust
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systematic destruction of jews by nazis
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d-day
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allies land invasion on normandy coast
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recognizing communist russia
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FDR made this mistake to strengthen US trade during depression
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France, Poland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Greece, Ugoslavia
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name the 11 countries taken over by Hitler
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did not conquer England, invaded russia, allowed US into war
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Hitler's 3 big mistakes
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carriers not destroyed, repair and fuel facilities spared, underestimated US people
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Japan's 3 mistakes at Pearl Harbor
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cash and carry, lend and lease
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two policies US used to help Allies before they entered the war
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"I feel all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve"
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yamamoto's famous quote right after Pearl Harbor
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