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| based on belief that if European states satisfied reasonable demands of dissatisfied powers, the dissatisfied powers would be content, and stability and peace would be established in Europe. |
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Naval station in the Hawaiian Islands
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Turning point of war in Asia.
US established Naval superiority in Pacific. |
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Nazi strike force
mobile killing units; followed army's advance killing and buryin jews in mass graves |
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Germany split Allied forces (Britain&France) on these beaches.
Royal Navy and civilians helped evacuate 338,000 Allied troops |
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Between US and Soviet Union (ideological conflicts)
Dominated world affairs until end of 1980's |
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| Britain, United States, Soviet Union, France |
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| nickname for bombing of London |
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| Between Germany and Japan; promised common front against communism |
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Normandy; Turning point of Western front of war.
Started Operation Overlord |
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Signed by Germany and Soviet Union
promised not to attack each other |
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"divine wind"
Suicide pilots that flew planes with the intention on crashing them to cause Allies damage. |
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Nazi plan to eliminate all European Jews |
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concrete/ steal fortifications armed with heavy artillery
French and German border |
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| allaince between Germany and Italy |
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| city in Germany bombed by Britain |
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UNited Nations; created at Yalta Conference
Britain, United States, Soviet Union |
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| taken by Germany; height of appeasement |
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| "union"; Germany annexed Austria |
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| restrictions intended to enforce international law |
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| told Nazis where Jews and other groups of people lived |
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| Turning point of Eastern European front |
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| Loop-hole Roosevelt found to rent/lease war goods to European countries at war |
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| US strategy to defeat Japan (Pacific) |
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| turning point of war in North Africa |
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| Nazi criminals were executed; @ Nuremburg |
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------ ------ into 4 parts controlled by US, FR, BR, and USSR
Potsdam Conference |
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Vice President of US; later became president because of Roosevelt's death
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| German Propaganda Prime Minister |
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| in charge of "Final Solution" |
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| President of United States of majority of war. |
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| Prime Minister of Britain |
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| French military and political leader |
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| Emeperor of Japan; forced army to surrender |
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Fascist Italian leader
Il Duce |
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| US military leader in Europe |
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German military leader
defeated at El Alamein |
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| US military leader in the Pacific |
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| Germany surrendered after Allies entered |
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After winning in Tunisia, the Allies went to --
1st Allied invasion of Europe |
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Greatest battle of WWII
Germany defeated by USSR |
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| WWII began with the invasion of -- |
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| Hitler's military used this new lightening fast war strategy |
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| Truman demanded free elections in Eastern Europe |
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| returned to Britain from Munich conference claiming "peace in our time" |
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| slaughter of civilians, especially Jews, by the Nazis |
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| Term 1st used by Churchill referencing the divisions of the Cold War |
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