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03/14/2013

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Stalin
Definition
He made a communist union (USSR) Stalin and broke all 32 Yalta promises
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Stalin
Definition
He wanted to move from backward nation to great industrialized nation
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Stalin
Definition
He established a totalitarian government (this type of gov't individuals have no rights, and gov't suppresses all opposition)
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Mussolini
Definition
Italy
He established a totalitarian gov't
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Mussolini
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He established a facist party that stressed nationalism
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Franco
Definition
Spanish
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Franco
Definition
a general who rebelled against the Spanish republic, leading to the Spanish Civil War
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Franco
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became Spain's facist dictator
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FDR
Definition
American - US President
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FDR
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continued the US policy of isolationism and reached out to countries
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FDR
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after Japan attacked China, FDR gave speech that was criticized as making it appear to move the US into war
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Truman
Definition
Vice President to FDR
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Truman
Definition
decided to use atomic bombs against Japan
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Truman
Definition
war with Germany ended a few weeks after he became President
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Neville Chamberlain
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British Prime Minister
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Neville Chamberlain
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had an appeasement policy that conceded land to other countries
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Neville Chamberlain
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after Hitler invaded Poland, he was Prime Minister for first 8 months of war
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Churchill
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was Neville Chamberlain political rival
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Churchill
Definition
He warned that Hitler was not finished expanding the Third Reich
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Churchill
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critical of the Munich Agreement that Chamberlain agreed to enter
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Non-agression pact
Definition
August 23, 1938, Germany and Soviet Union agreed to not to attack each other. Secretly the 2 countries agreed to divide Poland
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Munich Pact
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signed by Germany, UK, France, Italy on September 1938 to settle crisis on Czechslovakia
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blitzkrieg
Definition
lighting war - Germany military strategy using fast weapons and surprise
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U Boats
Definition
submarines - Hitler used a lot of these to attack ships, especially to attack supply ships
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Lend Lease Plan
Definition
the US agreed to lend or lease arms and other supplies to other countries whose defense was vital to the US
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Lend-Lease Plan
Definition
after Hitler broke agreement with Stalin not to fight each other, Roosevelt used the Lend-Lease Plan to supply Soviet Union
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a group of countries that opposed the Allied powers in World War II, including Germany, Italy, and Japan as well as Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia
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Axis powers
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made for world peace japan was into it for alliance with usa but usa didnt join
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Japan and the leagues of nations
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japan attacked asia and china
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japanese agression in asia and china
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Usa set up ships and stopped japan from receiving oil
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oil embargo
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dec 7 1941 japan stuck the usa
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Pearl Harbor
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sent japanese people in america to relocation camps
not threat but lies were spread that they were a threat
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japanese internment/
executive order 9066/
korematsu vs. u.s.
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waac
made bullets, guns, cars, tanks
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impact of women
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FEPC
fair employment practices comitee
Definition
signed by an exectutive order by fdr
to prohibbit descrimination in employment
based on race creed color nation orgin in the defence industruies and department8
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OPA
office of price adminastratrion
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controlled the price of goods and rents
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WPB
war production board
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decided to convert from peace time to war time
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a fixed amount of goods
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Rationing
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issued by a government for the purpose of financing military operations during times of war
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war bonds
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the research and building the atomic bomb
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manhattan project
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when at war with japan we dropped something on them
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use of atomic bomb/ hiroshima and nagasaki
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purpose of this conference was to discuss Europe's post-war reorganization
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Yalta conference
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what was operation torch?
Definition
British–American invasion of French North Africa in World War II during the North African Campaign, started on 8 November 1942.
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Douglas McArthur
Definition
American General, field marshal of the Philippine Army. He accepted Japan's surrender.
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Dwight Eisenhower
Definition
American General, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in WWII
US President
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Midway
Definition
turning point in the Pacific War because Admiral Nimitz foiled the Japanese plan because the Allied forces won island by island after this allowing them to get closer to Japan
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Coral Sea
Definition
5 day Battle in Pacific for the 1st time the Japanese were prevented from advancing. In this battle, Japan wanted to attack Australia. It was fought by US and Australia against Japan. It was an air battle.
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Battle of the Bulge
Definition
WWII battle fought in Belgium. Hitler wanted to divide the British and US forces. Largest and bloodiest battle. Lasted several winter months. Germany lost.
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Stalingrad
Definition
major battle where Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union to control Stalingrad (city in USSR). Germans lost a lot of soldier. A turning point in the war
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Iwo Jima
Definition
major battle between US and Japanese Empire. American invasion of an island. 1st American attack on Japanese territory.
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Okinawa
Definition
this battle was largest amphibious assault in Pacific. Allied forces wanted to use this island to further its island hopping strategy.
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D Day
Definition
Invasion of Normandy in France. Necessary in order for Allies to have a place to land equipment and people.
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