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The Allies
The Allies were able to defeat the Axis powers in Europe. |
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| Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union[image] |
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Anschluss
The Anschluss violated the Versailles Treaty.
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| The name given to the events in which Hitler's Germany took control of Austria in 1938.[image] |
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Appeasement
The Western democracies adopted a policy of appeasement. |
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| Giving in to the demands of an aggressor in order to keep the peace.[image] |
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Armistice
Armistice symbolizes peace. |
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| An agreement to stop fighting.[image] |
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Aryans
The Nazis thought that the Aryans were the superior race. |
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| Someone from Northern Europe, especially someone with blond hair and blue eyes.[image] |
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The Battle of Alamein
The Battle of Alamein was the last battle in Africa during WWII. |
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| In Egypt, the British finally stopped the German advance during the long Battle. They then turned the tables on the Germans, driving the Axis forces back across Libya into Tunisia.[image] |
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Atlantic Charter
The Atlantic Charter made the U.S. and the U.K. allies in WWII. |
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| Aug. 1941, Roosevelt & Churchill met on a warship in the Atlantic in which the 2 leaders set goals for the war (such as "the final destruction of the Nazi tyranny") and for the postwar world.[image] |
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Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway occured in the Pacific theatre. |
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| June 4-7, 1942 (6 months after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor); The United States discovers Japan's intended trap at the Midway Atoll and instead the U.S. ambushes the Japanese and they suffer heavy losses and never really recover from this counter-attack.[image] |
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Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was one of the costliest of the war. |
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| A major tuning point in the Soviet Union, and one of the costliest of the war; In 1942, Hitler was determined to take Stalin's namesake city & Stalin was equally determined not to let it fall; the Soviets end up encircling their attackers and the Germans finally surrender in Jan. 1943.[image] |
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Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge happened on December 1944. |
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| Dec. 1944 - Jan 1945; Germany launches its last massive counterattack of WWII, and there were great losses on both sides; the U.S. suffers the most casualties here out of all the WWII battles: 19,000 dead: Germany holds off Allied advance for about 6 week but eventually loses their foothold.[image] |
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Berlin Blockade/Airlift
The Berlin Blockade/Airlift involved the Soviets stopping the people of West Berlin from receiving supplies by land.
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| June 1948 - May 1949, during the Cold War, Stalin tries to completely control Berlin, even though it was occupied and divided by all 4 victorious Allies, by sealing off every railroad and highway into the Western sectors of the city. Western powers responded to the blockade by supplying West Berliners with food and fuel via cargo planes for more than a year - and the Soviets end their blockade but tensions between the countries grows deeper.[image] |
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Big Three
In 1942, the Big Tree agreed to focus on finishing the war in Europe before trying to end the war in Asia. |
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| Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin[image] |
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Blitzkrieg
The Nazis forces launched blitzkrieg against Poland in September, 1939. |
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| "Lightning war", where Hitler used improved tank & airpower technology to strike a devastating blow against the enemy.[image][image] |
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Cold War
The Cold War has left a significant legacy. |
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| This unfriendly relationship between the US and the Soviet Union after the Second World War.[image] |
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D-Day
Allied troops faced daunting obstacles on D-Day. |
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| June 6, 1944; Allies invade France; 176,000 troops land on the beaches of Normandy.[image] |
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The Final Solution
Hitler used the final solution to get rid of Jewish people from Europe. |
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| Adolf Hitler's plan to remove Jewish people from Europe by killing them all.[image] |
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Guernica
There was a three hour bombing happening on Guernica by the Nazi planes. |
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| A town in the Basque area of northern Spain, which was destroyed by bombs dropped by German aircraft in 1937, during the Spanish Civil War.[image] |
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Haile Selassie
Haile Selassie modernized Ethiopia for several decades before the famine and political opposition forced him from office in 1974.
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| The emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974, who is remembered especially for having modernized his country.[image] |
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Munich Conference
The Munich Conference came as a result of a long series of negotiations. |
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| Sept. 1938, British & French persuaded the Czechs to surrender the Sudetenland to Hitler.[image] |
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Hiroshima
On August 6, 1945, an American plane dropped an atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima. |
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| A city in Japan which was destroyed in 1945 during World War II, when a U.S. nuclear bomb was dropped on it, killing very many people.[image] |
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Kamikaze Pilots
The kamikaze pilots undertook suicide missions. |
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| Japanese pilots who undertook suicide missions, crashing their explosive-laden airplanes into American warships.[image] |
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Reparations
The Soviet Union took reparations for its huge war losses. |
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| Money paid by a defeated country after a war (ex. Germany), for all the deaths, damage etc it has caused.[image] |
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Miracle of Dunkirk
The Dunkirk evacuationis is known as the Miracle of Dunkirk.
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| British sent all available naval vessels, merchant ships, and fishing boats across the English Channel and despite German air attacks, the armada ferried more than 300,000 troops to safety in Britain; this heroic rescue raised British morale.[image] |
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Nazi-Soviet Pact
The Nazi-Soviet Pact bound Hitler and Stalin to peaceful relations. |
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| Publicly bound Hitler & Stalin to peaceful relations; but secretly the 2 agreed not to fight if the other went to war to divide up Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe between them.[image] |
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NATO
The NATO was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western Europe nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization; a group of countries including the US and several European countries, which give military help to each other.[image] |
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Pearl Harbor
The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor happened on Decemeber 7, 1941. |
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| An important US naval base in Hawaii, which was suddenly attacked by Japanese planes in December 1941. Many warships were destroyed or damaged, and this caused great shock and anger in the US, and made the US start fighting in World War II.[image] |
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Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
The Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis agreed to fight communism and to not interfere with one another. |
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| The Axis Powers; the 3 countries agreed to fight Soviet communism, and not to interfere with one another's for territorial expansion.[image] |
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Treaty of Versailles (regards to Germany)
Hitler goes against the Treaty of Versailles (regards to Germany).
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| A peace agreement made in 1919 at Versailles in France, following the defeat of Germany in World War I, between Germany and the allies (=the countries that fought against Germany in the war, including France, Russia, the UK, and the US). According to the treaty, Germany lost some of its land and had to agree to pay large amounts of money to the allies for damage caused by the war. The treaty also established the League of Nations.[image] |
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League of Nations
The League of Nations was the first international organization who principle nation was to maintain world peace. |
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| An international organization that was established after World War I to encourage countries to work together and achieve international peace. It was replaced in 1946 by the United Nations.[image] |
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Total War
Total War had gutted cities, factories, harbors, bridges, railroad, farms, and homes. |
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| Channeling of a nation's entire resources into a war effort.[image] |
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Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine would guide the United States for decades. |
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| United States policy, established in 1947, of trying to contain the spread of communism.[image] |
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United Nations
Delegates from 50 nations assembled in San Francisco to draft a character for the United Nations. |
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| 1st meeting in April 1945, 50 nations met to draft the charter for the UN; each member nation has 1 vote in the General Assembly; a smaller body, the Security Council has greater power and is made up of 5 permanent members: The U.S., Russia, Britain, France, and China; final ratification in Oct. 1945; currently 192 member countries.[image] |
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V-E day
Victory in Europe Day is known as V-E day. |
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| Victory in Europe Day; May 8th 1945, the day on which victory in Europe in World War II was celebrated.[image] |
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