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date World War II began

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September 3, 1939

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date of the attack on Pearl Harbor

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December 7, 1941

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date of the D-Day invasion

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June 6, 1944

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date of V-E Day

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May 8, 1945

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date of V-J Day

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September 2, 1945

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year the United Nations was founded

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1945

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president from 1933-1945

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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president from 1945-1953

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Harry S. Truman

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reasons for World War II

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  1. disarmament failures (Geneva Disarmament Conference)
  2. tension from Germany’s war debt
  3. competition for empires and resources
  4. extreme nationalism
  5. religious unbelief
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________ became dictator of Communist Russia in 1927

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Joseph Stalin

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Stalin’s plans to make Russia a modern industrial and military state

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Five-Year Plans

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collecting of private farms into large collective farms managed by the state

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collectivization

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________ became the Fascist dictator of Italy

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Benito Mussolini

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a form of socialism that allows for complete control of a group of people but allows for some private enterprise

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fascism

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Hitler’s autobiography describing his philosophies

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Mein Kampf (“my struggle”)

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Hitler’s new government of which he was der Fuhrer (the leader)

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Third Reich

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warrior class whose tradition the Japanese sought to implement

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samurai

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Japan was known for what form of government?

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militarism

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Japan invaded _______ in China for natural resources

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Manchuria

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emperor of Ethiopia (invaded by Italy)

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Haile Selassie I

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Fascist general who led in the Spanish Civil War

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Francisco Franco

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formed the Berlin-Tokyo-Rome Axis; the 3 main aggressors would become the Axis Powers

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Tripartite Treaty

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_______ led the Nationalist Chinese

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Chiang Kai-Shek

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______ led the Communist Chinese

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Mao Zedong

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leader of the Flying Tigers
Claire Chenault
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Hitler demanded _________ and it was granted to him by France and the British
the Sudetenland
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Hitler's invasion of _______ marked the start of WWII
Poland (September 1, 1939)
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German war tactic called "lightning war"
blitzkrieg
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German fortification across the West to oppose the French Maginot Line
Siegfried Line
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organized to keep America out of the war
America First Committee
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the US declared neutrality before the war began (but they did trade extensively with Allied nations)
Neutrality Act of 1937
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secretary of state during WWII
Cordell Hull
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sitting-down war; Poland was conquered and there were no more battles for 7 months
sitzkrieg
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German air force
luftwaffe
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head of the Nazi puppet government in Scandinavia
Vidkun Quisling
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battle where British civilian boats saved 300,000 men from being captured, this battle could have ended the war for the Allies if they lost
Dunkirk
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French capital that did not fall under German control
Vichy government
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led the Free French government
Charles de Gaulle
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Hitler's plan to conquer Great Britain
Operation Sea Lion
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prime minister of Britain after Chamberlain resigned
Winston Churchill
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required men between 18 and 65 to register with their local draft boards
Selective Training and Service Act
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led the Africa Korps to reconquer the territory in Africa that was lost to the British
Erwin Rommel (Desert Fox)
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said that Congress granted FDR powers to sell, lease, lend, or dispose of war materials
Lend-Lease Act
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US gunboat that the Japanese sunk on the Yangtze River
Panay
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became the military leader of Japan
Hideki Tojo
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on this date, Japan attacked the American fleet at Pearl Harbor, killing 3,500 American soldiers and causing the US to declare war
December 7, 1941
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Americans were issued _____ and grew _____ for troops overseas
ration books and victory gardens
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ships built solely for the purpose of transporting supplies for the war effort
liberty ships
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American businesses switched to war materials production; directed by Donald Nelson
War Production Board
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women's division of the navy
WAVES
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symbol of the female working population
Rosie the Riveter
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supreme commander of the Allied forces in Europe
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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name for American soldiers
G.I. (Government Issue)
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Allied invasion of North Africa
Operation Torch
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two generals who defeated the Africa Korps and prepared to invade Italy
Generals Eisenhower and Bernard Law Montgomery
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led the Allied invasion into Italy
George Patton
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date of D-Day invasion
June 6, 1944
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D-Day invasion stormed where?
Normandy, France
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Germany's last major offensive of the war
Battle of the Bulge
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Tuskegee Institute airmen
Fighting Red Tails
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during spring of 1942, Japan attempted to conquer these three islands
Midway, Wake, and Guam
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commander sent to the Philippines to help the islands prepare their defenses
Douglas MacArthur (forced back to the Bataan Peninsula)
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the march of American prisoners from Bataan and Corregidor to Bataan
Bataan Death March
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Allied pilot who led the first air raids on Japan
Jimmy Doolittle
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the first battle in world history in which naval ships never saw each other; stop Japanese push to Australia
Battle of the Coral Sea
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stop Japanese push to Hawaii; turning point of the war in the Pacific
Battle of Midway
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helped keep American communications safe from Japanese code breakers
Navajo Code Talkers
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land forces of American would move from island to island as they progressed to Japanese mainland
island-hopping
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leader of the naval fleet in the Pacific
Chester W. Nimitz
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year the US invaded the Philippines
1944
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the Japanese navy was defeated here
Battle of Leyte Gulf
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The U.S. air force used _______ and ______ to break the Japanese navy
B-29 bombers and submarines
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a strategic island necessary for American bombers; conquered with heavy casualties – almost all of the Japanese on the island were killed
Iwo Jima
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Japanese suicide airplanes
kamikazes
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replaced Churchill as prime minister of Great Britain
Clement Attlee
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called on the Japanese to unconditionally surrender and withdraw to the Japanese mainland
Potsdam Declaration
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2 physicists involved in the Manhattan Project
Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer
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a B-29 bomber dropped a single atomic bomb on Hiroshima
August 6, 1945
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