OFL unit 7 world history – Flashcards
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blitzkrieg
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lightning war
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Battle of Britain
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Hitler called off his attacks, he focused on the Mediterranean area and the Balkans
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Lend-Lease Act
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the transfer of war supplies including food, machinery and services, to nations whose defense was considered vital to the defense of the United States in World War 1
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Atlantic Charter
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Roosevelt and Churchill met secretly and issued a joint delaration. It upheld free trade among nations and the right of people to choose their own government
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Holocaust
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the systematic mass slaughter of Jews and other groups judged inferior by the Nazis
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Nuremberg Laws
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deprived Jews of their rights to German citizenship and forbade marriages between Jews and non-Jews
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ghettos
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dismal, overcrowded, segregated Jewish areas
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Battle of Stalingrad
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began on August 23, 1942. went on nightly bombing raids that set much of the city ablaze and reduced the rest to rubble
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D-Day
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began on June 6, 1944 British, Anerican, French and Canadian troops fought their way onto a 60-mile stretch of beach in Normandy
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kamikaze
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Japanese suicide pilots
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Identify and define the two technological devices that helped turn the tide in the Royal Air Force's favor?
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One was the electronic tracking system known as radar, it could tell the number, speed and direction of incoming war planes. A German made code-making machine named enigma, it enabled the British to decode the Germans secret messages.
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Describe the bombing of Pearl Harbor and its significance.
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American sailors wake to explosives. a Japanese attack was underway. The Japanese had sunk or damaged 19 ships, including 8 battleships. More than 2,300 Americans were killed. It caused many other places like Guam and Wake to fall.
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What was the role of the SS during the "Final Solution."
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The SS and their collaborations rounded up men, women, children, and even babies and took them to isolated spots
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How did the United States mobilize for war?
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Factories converted their peacetime operations to wartime production and made everything from a machine guns to boots. Automobile factories produced tanks. A typewriter company made armor piercing shells.
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How did the Allies deal with the Nazi war criminals after the war was over?
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The bodies of those executed were burned at the concentration camp Dachau. They were cremated in the same ovens that had burned so many of their victims.
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Charles de Gaulle
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a French general who set up a government-in-exile in London; went on to organize Free French military forces that battled the Nazis until France was liberated in 1944
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Winston Churchill
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British Prime Minister who declared that Britain would never give in to the Axis Powers
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Erwin Rommel
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known as the "Desert Fox," this German general commanded the Afrika Korps, an elite German tank force, to assist the Italians in Africa
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Douglas MacArthur
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the commander of the Allied land forces in the Pacific
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James Doolittle
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under his command, 16 B-25 bombers to bomb Tokyo and several other Japanese cities
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Herschel Grynszpan
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a Jewish youth from Germany who shot a German diplomat living in Paris out of revenge for his father's deportation to Poland
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Dwight Eisenhower
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an American General who led Allied forces into Morocco and Algeria during Operation Torch
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Aryan
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Germanic people's who were considered by the Nazis to be the "master race"
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kamikaze
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Japanese suicide pilots
