APWH – Ch. 37 – Flashcards
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WWII began with
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Japanese attacks on China
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The height of japanese atrocity in china was reached at the
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Rape of Nanjing
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The Guomindang during WWII was
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the resistance govt of the chinese versus japan's invasion of china
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The Tripartite Pact brought together
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Germany, Italy, and Japan
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The german and italian fascists used which war as an excuse to intervene and gain valuable military experience?
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spanish civil war
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The weakness of the league of nations was revealed in its inability to take any substantial action in response to the italian invasions of
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ethiopia
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Adolf Hitler always spoke of the "November crime" which was the
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signing of the 1918 armistice
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In 1938, germany sent troops into what country and forced its leaders to accept the Anschluss?
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Austria
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The high point of appeasement was
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The munich conference
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In the wake of the Munich conference, what leader proposed that the meeting had ensured "peace in our time"?
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Neville Chamberlain
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While the Nazi-Soviet Pact was on the surface a nonaggression treaty, it had secret stipulations that spelled out
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the division of Poland
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The european part of WWII began with the
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german invasion of poland
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the german blitzkrieg was referred to as
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a lightning war
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After the fall of france in 1940, the only country left to fight germany was
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britain
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In the battle of britain the germans hoped to defeat the english
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almost solely through air attacks led by the Luftwaffe
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Operaton Barbarossa was
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the german plan for an invasion of the soviet union
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Hitler's comment "you only have to kick in the door, and the whole rotten structure will come down" was a reference to which of the following powers?
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Soviet Union
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By december 1941, the soviets gained two new allies in their struggle to defeat the german invasion of their country: "General Winter" and
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The united states
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the japanese goal in the bombing of Pearl Harbor was to
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weaken the US and establish a defensive japanese perimeter in the pacific
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"Asia for Asians" was the slogan of the
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Japanese
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the key to the allied victories in europe and asia was
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industrial capacity
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The first large-scale defeat for germans forces in WWII was
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Stalingrad
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The normandy invasion led to the
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end of german resistance in western europe
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The US victory in the pacific that turned the tide against the japanese was
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Midway
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The US secret weapon in the Pacific campaign was
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a code-breaking operation known as Magic
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In the battle of okinawa the japanese introduced
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kamikaze pilots
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During the battle of okinawa
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over 100k Okinawan civilians died refusing to surrender
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the japanese finally surrended in Aug 1945
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after the atomic bombing of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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The vichy govt was the
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french govt in exile during WWII
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At the wannsee conference,
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the nazis put in place the final solution
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The largest of the nazi death camps was
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Auschwitz
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Comfort women were
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korean and chinese women forced into prostitution by the japanese
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Around how many million people perished during WWII?
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60
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One of the biggest arguments among the Allies in WWII was
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Stalin's demand for a second front
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The US interventionist plan for containing communism was known as the
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Truman Doctrine
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The marshall plan was
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a US financial plan to rebuild europe and stop soviet expansion
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COMECON was
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the soviet alternative to the marshall plan
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NATO was designed to be a
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regional military alliance against soviet aggression
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At a meeting of 50 nations at San Francisco in 1945,
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The united nations charter was signed
