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| 1. The Allies are the countries combined. |
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Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union
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| 2. Anschluss was a name that represented the events HItler caused. |
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the name given to the events in which Hitler's
Germany took control of Austria in 1938
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| 3. Appeasement was commonly used to keep peace. |
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giving in to the demands of an aggressor in order to
keep the peace
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| 4. Armistice was something used to stop fighting but not war. |
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an agreement to stop fighting
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| 5. Aryans were people with only blond hair and blue eyes. |
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someone from Northern Europe, especially someone
with blond hair and blue eyes
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| 6. The Battle of Alamein was when the Germans took the axis forcesback. |
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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 forcesback
across Libya into Tunisia.
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| 7. Atlantic Charter was when Roosevelt and Churchill were planning to get rid of the Nazi's. |
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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.
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| 8. Battle of Midway was when Americans attacked Japan. |
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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
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| 9. Battle of Stalingrad is when Germans surrendered. |
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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
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| 10. Battle of the Bulge is when Germany and the U.S. have loses. |
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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
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| 11. Berlin Blockade/ Airlift is when Stalin tried to take over Berlin but fails. |
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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
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| 12. Big Three were Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin |
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Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin
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| 13. Blitzkrieg was created by Hitler so have more power to attack his enemies. |
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"lightning war", where Hitler used improved tank &
airpower technology to strike a devastating blow
against the enemy
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| 14. Cold War started because ofthe US and the Soviet Union. |
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this unfriendly relationship between the US and the
Soviet Union after the Second World War
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| 15. D-Day is when France is attacked by allies. |
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June 6, 1944; Allies invade France; 176,000 troops
land on the beaches of Normandy
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| 16. The Final Solution is when Hitler plans on killing Jewish citizens to there not in Europe. |
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Adolf Hitler's plan to remove Jewish people from
Europe by killing them all
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| 17. Guernica was a town that was destroyed by Germans. |
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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.
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| 18. Halie Selassie was an emperor that changed his country. |
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the emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974, who is
remembered especially for having modernized his
country
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| 19. Munich Conference was created to make Hitler surrender. |
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Sept. 1938, British & French persuaded the Czechs to
surrender the Sudetenland to Hitler
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| 20. Hiroshima was a city that was destroyed by the U.S.. |
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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
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| 21. Kamikaze Pilots were used to go on missions that were risky. |
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Japanese pilots who undertook suicide missions,
crashing their explosive-laden airplanes into
American warships
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| 22. Reparations was money that was given for the damage of the war. |
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money paid by a defeated country after a war
(ex. Germany), for all the deaths, damage etc it has
caused
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| 23. Miracle of Dunkirk was they brought goods to Britain. |
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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
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| 24. Nazi-Soviet Pact was created by Hitler and Stalin so they could have peace. |
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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
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| 25. NATO was created to help countries with military help. |
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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
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| 26. Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese. |
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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.
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| 27. Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis all fought in the Soviet union. |
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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
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28. Treaty of Versilles (regards to Germany)
was created in France so they could have a peace agreement. |
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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
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| 29. League of Nations was created to get countries to work together and have 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
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| 30. Total War happened when they had resources try to help out in the war. |
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channeling of a nation's entire resources into a war
effort
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| 31. Truman Doctrine created a policy to spread communism. |
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United States policy, established in 1947, of trying to
contain the spread of communism
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| 32. United Nations was when 50 different countries met to draft for the UN. |
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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
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| 33. V-E day was a special day for Europe. |
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Victory in Europe Day; May 8th 1945, the day on which victory in Europe in World War II was celebrated
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