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10th Grade
12/15/2014

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Hermann Goering
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#2 to Hitler
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Hermann Goering
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reichancellor
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Hermann Goering
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started Gestapo
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Hermann Goering
Definition
successor to Hitler
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Hermann Goering
Definition
beat executioner at Nuremburg trials by taking cyanide
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Josef Goebbels
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minister of propaganda
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Josef Goebbels
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commits suicide in “The Bunker” with his family
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Heinrich Himmler
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head of the SS
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Heinrich Himmler
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led Gestapo, captured, committed suicide
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Albert Speer
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Hitler’s architect
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Albert Speer
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minister of armaments
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SS
Definition
elite Nazi troops
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Gestapo
Definition
Secret police
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Jugend
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Hitler youth
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Eva Braun
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Hitler's mistress
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Warsaw Ghetto
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Jewish uprisings, crushed by Nazis
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John Hersey
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wrote Hiroshima and Cry the Beloved Country
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Zyklon B
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poison gas used to exterminate Jews
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Josef Mengele
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doctor, medical experiments on inmates in Auschwitz, escaped to South America
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Auschwitz, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, Sobibor, Chelmo, Mannhausen
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Concentration Camps
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Nuremberg Trials
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trials of Nazi war criminals
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Adolf Hitler
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leader of the Nazi party
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Wehrmacht
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regular German army
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Aryan Race
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purebred Germans "master race"
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Final Solution
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genocide, killing all the Jews in concentration camps
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September 1, 1939
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Poland is invaded
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Maginot Line
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French line of defense
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Siegfried Line
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German line of defense
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Quisling
Definition
traitor, collaborator
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Sitzkrieg
Definition
sitting war
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Phony War
Definition
sitzkrieg
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Winston Churchill
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prime minister of Great Britain
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Dunkirk
Definition
boats, flotilla
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Blitzkrieg
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lightning warfare
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Vichy Government
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puppet government of France
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Philippe Petain
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head of Vichy government
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Collaborators
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traitor
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The Resistance
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secretly fought the Nazi, operate underground
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Maquis
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French resistance
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Free French
Definition
people who escape, fought against the Nazis in Great Britain
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Charles DeGaulle
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leader of Free French
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Operation Sea Lion
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Germans attempt to invade Britain
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Battle of Britain
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air battle, Hitler bombs England
RAF vs Luftwaffe
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Messerschmidts
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German fighting planes
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Spitfires
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US fighting planes
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Erwin Rommel
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great German tank general
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Desert Fox
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Rommel’s nickname
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Tobruk
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33,000 troops captured by germany
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Afrika korps
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Rommel’s troops in North Africa
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Panzers
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Rommel’s tanks
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Bernard Montgomery
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cautious and greatest British general
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El Alamein
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Egypt, tank battle won by Montgomery
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Operation Torch
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invasion of North Africa by Americans
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Dwight Eisenhower
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about Americans: “They're overpaid, over fed, over sexed, and worst of all, they're over here.”
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Dwight Eisenhower
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allied commanding general in Europe
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George Marshall
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army chief of of staff advisor of Roosevelt
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Franklin Roosevelt
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US president during WW2
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George Patton
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tank guy, had of operation Gorge
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Ole Blood and Guts
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George Patton’s nickname
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Race to Messina
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George Patton vs Montgomery in Sicily
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Mark Clark
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in charge of Italian campaign
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Monte Cassino
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part of Gustave line, Benedictine monastery, blown up
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Anzio
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amphibious landing, we win
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Audie Murphy
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most decorated soldier in WW2
played himself in autobiographical movie
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Normandy Invasion
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another name for D-Day
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Operation Overlord
Definition
another name for D-Day
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D Day
Definition
June 6, 1944
we land on Normandy peninsula (France), Germans defend French
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George Patton
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leads paper army
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Omar Bradley
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American commander in D Day
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Hedgerow War
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3 weeks of intensive fighting
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Bastogne
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Belgium
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Nuts
Definition
A.C. McAuliffe’s response to surrendering
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A.C. McAuliffe
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asked to surrender at Battle of the Bulge
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Battle of the Bulge
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tank battle, surprise attack by Germans
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Dresden
Definition
cultural city in Germany with no military significance
bombed as payback for the Blitz of london
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Arthur “Bomber” Harris
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British air commander
bombed Dresden
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Slaughterhouse Five
Definition
novel by Kurt Vonnegut about the war
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Elbe River
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where allies and russians meet
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Werner von Braun
Definition
rocket scientist
captured by Americans at war’s end
developed American rocket program for missiles and space
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V-1 & V-2
Definition
rockets developed by Werner von Braun
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Operation Barbarossa
Definition
German invasion of Russia
paper army used to fool Germans
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Georgi Zhukov
Definition
general who led Russians in invading Germany on Eastern Front
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