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Haile Selassie
Haile Sealassie once said ¨It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.¨
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Ethiopia's regent from 1916 to 1930 and emperor from 1930 to 1974
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Emperor Hirohito
Emperor Hirohito name means abundant benevolence |
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124th Emperor of Japan
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General Hideki Tojo
General Hideki Tojo has 7 children |
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general of the Imperial Japanese Army, the leader of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, and the 27th Prime Minister of Japan during much of World War II
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler once said if you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed. |
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German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party
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Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini died April 28, 1945
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Italian politician, journalist and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 to 1943
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Francisco Franco
One thing that I am sure of, and which I can answer truthfully, is that whatever the contingencies that may arise here, wherever I am there will be no Communism
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Spanish general who ruled over Spain as a military dictator from 1939 until his death in 1975.
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Winston Churchill
Winston Church chill Never, never, never give up.
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British statesman, army officer, and writer. He served as Prime Minister.
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Joseph Stalin
Stalin said the only real power comes out of a long rifle.
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Georgian-born Soviet revolutionary and political leader
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*"Big Three"
Stalin was part of the big three |
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Soviet Union leader Josef Stalin; U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt; and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
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*Allies
1 January 1942 declaration, was when the Allies were made |
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The big four Allied powers of World War II were Great Britain, the United States of America, the Soviet Union, and France.
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Axis
The Axis power was the evil in the war |
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Axis powers, also known as the Axis and the Rome–Berlin–Tokyo
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Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis formed a huge alliance |
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| Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan sign the ten-year Tripartite Pact |
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Atlantic Charter
Atlantic Charter was a declaration |
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| joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. |
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Weimer Republic
Unlike the Weimar Republic, the Bonn Republic is prepared to defend itself.
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unofficial, historical designation for the German state as it existed between 1919 and 1933.
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Appeasement
In 1937 the Appeasement was signed
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aking concessions to the dictatorial powers in order to avoid conflict, governed Anglo-French foreign policy during the 1930s.
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Munich Conference
Munich Agreement was made in September 30, 1938
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The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation
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Treaty of Versailles
treaty of Versailles was Jun 28, 1919 – Jan 21, 1920
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The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end.
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Reparations
West Germany and East Germany were obliged to pay war reparations to the Allied governments |
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American website started by artist Natasha Marin to raise compensation for descendants of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
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League of Nations
league of nations headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland
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international organization
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Nazi-Soviet Pact
Nazi-Soviet Pact was also know as
The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
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Non-aggression Pact or the Nazi German-Soviet Pact of Aggression, was a neutrality pact between Nazi Germany.
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*Lend Lease Act
Lend Lease Act Proposed in late 1940
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An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States
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Attack on Guernica
the Attack of Guernica was 26 April 193
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aerial bombing of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
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Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor happens in San diego
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a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base
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Stalingrad
1942 – February 2, 1943 Stalingrad |
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major confrontation of World War II
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D-Day
Tuesday, 6 June 1944 was when d day happened
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The Normandy landings were the landing operations
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Battle of the Bulge
Dec 16, 1944 – Jan 25, 1945 is when the battle of the bulge happened
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the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II
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VE Day
Tuesday
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May 8 was Ve Day
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the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces
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Bataan Death March
April 9, 1942 was the day of the Bataan Death March
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he forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war from Saysain Point
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Battle of Midway
june 4, 1942 – Jun 7, 1942 was when battle of midway happened
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a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II
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Battle of Iwo Jima
the battle of iwo jima was also in tokyo
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a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
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Battle of Okinawa
battle of okinawa was fought by the USA
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was a major battle of the Pacific War
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Hiroshima
Hiroshima in japan
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United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima
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Nagasaki
Nagasaki was also in japan |
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Kamikaze Pilots
Kamikaze Pilots believed they died for a good cause
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initiated suicide attacks for the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels
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Island Hopping
Their was a lot of Island Hopping in ww2
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travel from one island to another, especially as a tourist in an area of small islands.
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Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg
is also a show
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The Japanese turn back a Chinese counter-offensive; the Blitzkrieg Germany invasion of France; France falls; the British Army is evacuated from Dunkirk.
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*Yalta Conference
yalta conference was a big part of the war
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meeting of the heads of government
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Potsdam Conference
Jul 17, 1945 – Aug 2, 1945 was when the Postdam Confrence happened
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The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from 17 July to 2 August 1945
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Cold War
The cold war was also cold
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The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc.
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NATO
NATO Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949 |
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949
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Warsaw Pact
warsaw pact ended the cold war
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Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War
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