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| Part of Hitler's agenda. Literally, "living space"; the land that Hitler proposed to conquer so that true Aryans might have sufficient space to live their noble lives. |
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| the international organization set up following ww1 to maintain peace by arbitrating disputes and promoting collective security. The US senate shut it down, and Russia and Germany were also excluded. The League organized the administration of the colonies and territories of Germany/Ottoman Empire through a system of mandates. When Japan, Germany, and Italy grew aggressive, the LoN failed to properly check them. Now, we have WW2 in our text books. |
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| the strategy of preventing a war by making concessions for legit grievances. (when Britain, France, Italy met in Munich with Hitler and agreed not to get in his way of Sudetenland) |
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| battle of Britain, 863-864 |
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| Hitler was taking out the countries one by one until Britain was left. Britain replaced the genius who came up with Appeasement with Churchill! In the summer of 1940, battle of Britain (or Blitz), the German air force bombed monuments, public buildings, weapon depots, and industry. Britain poured its wealth into anti-aircraft weapons, its highly successful code-detecting group Ultra, and developments in radar so that by the end of the year, Britain's air industry was out performing Germany by 50%. By fall of 1940, German air losses forced Hitler to abandon his plan for a naval invasion of Britain, forced alliances with Hungary/Romania/Bulgaria, gained access to their supplies, and decided to attack the soviet union. |
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| d-day / Normandy invasion |
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| As the tides of WW2 were beginning to turn in the Allies' favor, the Soviets began to bear a majority of the Nazi's war machine. June 6, 1944, the combined Allied forces under Eisenhower attacked the heavily fortified French beaches of Normandy. |
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| Civilian casualties from WW2 (864) |
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| More civilians than soldiers died--both sides bombed cities in an attempt to destroy civilian will to resist (that failed. The British people, not the soldiers, were the targets in the Battle of Britain, thanks to the Nazi's ideology that named racial inferiors and enemies. In Poland, the SS murdered or relocated to labor camps hundreds of thousands of citizens. Literate people in conquered areas were killed. |
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| Began immediately after ww2. The allies were suspicious of each other already, and Truman cut off the Soviets asap, while Stalin suspected US and GB of letting the soviets bear the brunt of WW2 as part of their anti-communist policies. The cold war became a series of moves/counter moves in the shared occupation of east Europ. |
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| the US's police to limit communism after ww2 by countering political crises with economic and military aid. |
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Soviets grabbed Berlin, looked US in the eye and said ever-so-daringly, "Mine."
We flew supplies to to the isolated Berliners. |
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| "denazification ranged from forcing German civilians to look at the death camps to investigating and bringing to trial suspected local collaborators |
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| the post ww2 program funded by the US to get europe back on its economic feet and thereby reduce the appeal of communism. played a huge role in rebirth of european prosperity in the fifties. |
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| A security alliance formed in 1949 to provide a unified military force for the US, canada, and their allies in W. Europe and Scandinavia. |
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| a security alliance of the Soviet Union and its allies in 1955 when Nato admitted W. Germany. |
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| an organization set up in 1945 for collective security and for the resolution of international conflicts through both deliberation and the use of force. |
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| the process by which colonies gained their independence from the imperial powers after world war two. |
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| Six day war, Yom Kippur War |
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| when israel responded to palestinian guerrilla attacks and snapped up Gaza and the Sinai peninsula from Egypt, the Golan Heights from Syria and the West Bank from Jordan. It was shortly followed in 1973 by a joint Egypt-Syria attack on Israel on Yom Kippur, the most holy day in their calendar. |
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