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"lightning war" - a form of warfare in which surprise attacks with fast-moving airplanes are followed by massive by massive attacks with infantry forces.
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Blitzkrieg
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A french general and statesman. He was the leader of Free France and the head of the Provisional Government of the French Republic.
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Charles De Gaulle
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A british statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.
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Winston Churchill
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The Battle of Britain was a combat of the Second World War, when the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against the German Air Force attacks from the end of June 1940.
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Battle of Britain
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Popularly known as the Desert Fox, was a senior German Army officer during World War II. Rommel was a highly decorated officer in World War I and was awarded the Pour le Mérite for his actions on the Italian Front.
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Erwin Rommel
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President Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease bill into law on 11 March 1941. It permitted him to "sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of, to any such government [whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States] any defense article.
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Lend-Lease Act
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A declaration of principles issued in august 1941 by british prime minister Winston Churchill and U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt, on which the Allied peace plan at the end of World War II was based.
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Atlantic Charter
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The Nazis proposed a new racial order, in which the germanic peoples, or ______ were considered a master race.
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Aryans
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The _________ was the systematic mass slaughter of Jews and other groups judged inferior by the Nazis.
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Holocaust
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The Nazis made the targeting of Jews a government policy through _______ 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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The night that Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, buisnesses, and synagogues across Germany and murdered close to 100 Jews became known as ______________, or "the night of the broken glass".
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Kristallnaucht
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Hitler ordered Jews in all countries under German control to be moved to dismal, overcrowded _______, or segregated Jewish areas.
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Ghettos
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Hitler's plan to take more direct action to rid Germany of the "Jewish Problem" was known as the ____________.
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The final solution
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Hitler's plan was actually a program of ________, the systematic killing of an entire people.
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Genocide
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United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany; 34th President of the United States (1890-1961) Synonyms: Dwight David Eisenhower, Dwight Eisenhower, Eisenhower, Ike, President Eisenhower Example of full general, general. a general officer of the highest rank.
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Dwight D Eisenhower
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A major battle between German and Soviet troops in World War II. The battle was fought in the winter of 1942-1943 and ended with the surrender of an entire German army. Stalingrad is considered a major turning point of the war in favor of the Allies.
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Battle of Stalingrad
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D-Day is the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. The best known D-Day is during World War II, on June 6, 1944—the day of the Normandy landings—initiating the Western Allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi Germany.
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D-Day
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The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 - 25 January 1945) was the last major German offensive campaign of World War II. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front towards the end of World War II in the European theatre.
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Battle of the Bulge
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Battle of Leyte Gulf, (October 23-26, 1944), decisive air and sea battle of World War II that crippled the Japanese Combined Fleet, permitted U.S. invasion of the Philippines and reinforced the Allies' control of the Pacific.
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Battle of Leyte Gulf
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A member of a Japanese air attack corps in World War II assigned to make a suicidal crash on a target (as a ship)
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Kamikaze
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Most of Europe lost its freedom and was occupied by Germany. 6 million Jews and up to 11 million other people were killed in the Holocaust, and millions more soldiers and civilians were killed or wounded.
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Note the ways the war affected the land and people of Europe.
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Left Europe in Ruins. Homeless and displaced people, constant hunger. Disrupted agriculture. 40 million died from famine and disease spread through the bombed-out cities.
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Note the problems postwar governments faced.
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The Nuremberg Trials, 22 nazi leaders were charged with waging a war of aggression and were accused of crimes against humanity- the murder of 11 million people.
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Note the way the allies dealt with the Nazi war criminals.
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150,000 people (approx) killed forcing Japan to surrender.
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Note the effects of Allied bombing raids on Japan.
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-demilitarization ( the process of creating a gov't elected by the people). -new constitution. -empire -> constitutional monarchy.
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Note the ways U.S. occupation changed Japan.
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-women got to vote. -emperor's power was reduced -> figurehead. -real political power was in people. -two-house parliament.
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Note the provisions in Japan's new constitution.
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Just before 8 a.m. on December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating: The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded.
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What happened during the bombing of pearl harbor?
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The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, by the Japanese Imperial Navy was of significant importance because it ignited the fury of the United States' entrance into World War II. The following day, December 8, 1945, the United States declared war on Japan.
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What was the significance of the bombing of pearl harbor?
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Japan launched surprise invasions that quickly overran and conquered many American, British, and Dutch colonies in the area.
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What happened during the fall of southeast Asian colonies?
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The Japanese acquired sources of raw materials to feed their war machine.
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What was the significance of the fall of the southeast Asian colonies?
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Carrier based US bombers launched a bombing raid on Tokyo
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What happened during Doolittle's raid on Japan?
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It raised US morale, as it was a direct attack on the Japanese homeland, and showed the US was willing and able to strike at Japan itself.
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What was the significance of Doolittle's Raid on Japan?
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The US and Japanese carrier fleets fought out a drawn battle.
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What happened during the battle of the coral sea?
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It halted Japanese advances in the South Pacific.
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What was the significance of the battle of the coral sea?
