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Hitler demanded, and was given, what area in northwestern Czechoslovakia

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Sudetenland

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Two days after Hitler's invasion of ____, Britain and France declared war on Germany

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Poland

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Hitler's blitzkrieg, or "lightning war," was

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A form of attack that used tank divisions supported by air attacks

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On December 7, 1941, the Japanese

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launched a surprise attack on the US Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor

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What was the turning point of the war in the Pacific?

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the Battle of Midway Island

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_____ administered the Nazi Final Solution?

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Heinrich Himmler

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When the Einsatzgruppen proved to be too slow for the Nazis, they ___

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Built special extermination camps in Poland

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In order to address labor shortages during the war, Japan ____

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brought in Korean and Chinese laborers

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At the Tehran Conference, Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill agreed ___

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to a partition of postwar Germany

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At the Potsdam Conference, Truman demanded ____ throughout Eastern Europe

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the reestablishment of the prewar national boundaries

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Great Britain's policy of ___ toward Germany was based on the belief that the satisfaction of reasonable demands would maintain peace in Europe

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detente

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Neville Chamberlain boasted that the Munich Conference meant

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"peace for our time"

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The "Mukden incident," which Japan used as an excuse to seize Manchuria, was

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an attack on a Japanese railway by Japanese soldiers disguised as a Chinese.

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At ____, heroic efforts by the British Royal Navy and civilians in private boats managed to evacuate 338,000 Allied troops

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Dunkirk

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The Battle of Stalingrad was a crushing defeat for Germany because

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the entire German Sixth Army, considered the best of the German troops, was lost

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The ____ were special strike forces charged with the task of rounding up and killing the Jews

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Einsatzgruppen

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_____, Hitler's minister for armaments and munitions, was able to triple the production of armaments despite Allied air raids.

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Albert Speer

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The ____ was the period of political tension following World War II

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Cold War

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At the Yalta Conference, the Allies agreed to

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the establishment of a United Nations organization after the war

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The slaughter of European civilians, particularly European Jews, by the Nazis became known as what?

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the Holocaust

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Where did the Battle of El Alamein take place?

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in Egypt

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Which country suffered the most damage by bombing during World War II?

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Germany

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Which of the following countries was in the are under Soviet influence after World War II?

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Czechoslovakia

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Which of the following countries was in the area of Western (Allied) influence after World War II?

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Holland

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What happened as a result of Germany's invasion and conquest of Poland?

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Great Britain and France declared war on Germany

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In November 1936, the Japanese and Germans signed an alliance called the

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Anti-Comintern Pact

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The turning point in the war against Japan occurred six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor at the Battle of _____ (where the Japanese lost four of its prized aircraft carriers)

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Midway

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President Truman was unsuccessful at the _____ ______ in trying to convince Stalin to accept free-democratic election in Eastern European nations

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Potsdam Conference

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The Chinese Nationalist leader _____ made a huge decision in the late 1930s when he mistakenly feared the Communists more than the imperialistic Japanese

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Chiang Kai-Shek

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The German code name for the secret invasion of the Soviet Union (1941) was called

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Operation of Barbarossa

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Adolf Hitler made a huge mistake when he called off his tank corps who had the British/French forces trapped at the Belgian coastal town of ____. Instead, the British made a miraculous rescue of over 300,000 of its troops

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Dunkirk

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Following the fall of France, the Germans took direct control of the northern and western portion of France (known as occupied France). The "unoccupied" portion of France was called ________ France and was governed by Henri ________.

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Vichy..........Petain

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Hitler made a fateful mistake against the British when he

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fired all of his top naval leaders and personally left a naval assault on England

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In November 1943, Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill met at ______, Afghanistan and planned for 1.) an Allied invasion of France, and 2.) the post-war set up of Europe including the division of Germany among four Allied nations

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Tehran

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policy that sought peace and stability by satisfying the reasonable demands of dissatisfied powers

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appeasement

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Neville Chamberlain thought the agreement reached there meant "peace for our time"

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Munich Conference

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used as an excuse for Japanese seizure of Manchuria

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Mukden incident

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German air force

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Luftwaffe

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Germany, Italy, and Japan

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Axis Powers

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special strike forces for carrying out Nazi Final Solution, usually by shooting the victims

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Einsatzgruppen

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the slaughter of European civilians, particularly European Jews, by the Nazis

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Holocaust

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British term for the German air raids

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blitz

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meeting at which the Allies agreed to form a United Nations organization

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Yalta Conference

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treaty between Germany and Japan promising a common front against communism

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Anti-Comintern Pact

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gave Hitler's the freedom to attack Poland

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Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

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"lightening war" that utilized tanks supported by airplanes

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blitzkrieg

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policy that initially kept the United States from becoming involved in the war against Germany

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isolationism

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Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States

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Allied Powers

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history's greatest naval invasion

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D-Day

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Nazi plan for the extermination of the Jews

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Final Solution

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Japanese pilots who flew suicide missions against the US warships

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kamikaze

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meeting of the Big Three to discuss the final attack on Germany

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Tehran Conference

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meeting at which Truman demanded free elections throughout Eastern Europe

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Potsdam Conference

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