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Leader of Italy
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Joseph Stalin took control of Russia and the Soviet Union when the first leader of the Soviet union died. Wanted to make a model communist state.
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62 nations, pledged to never make war again
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Was appointed chancelor (prime minister) in 1933
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Earliest was opened in 1933, camps where jews were moved and lived in hunger, humiliation and were worked to death.
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Systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe, more than half were jews.
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President from 1933-1945,
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Tens of thousands of italian troopsbuilt up.
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Effort to keep U.S. out of future wars.
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Leader of Spain
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Military build up, demilatarized by versailes treaty.
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Speech wich called upon peace-loving nations to quarentine aggressor nations.
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Germans marched into Austria unopposed making Schuschnigg resign.
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Turned Sudetenlandover to Germany without a shot being fired.
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British prime minister they signed the Munich Pact. Wanted to avoid war.
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He is Chamberlains political rival.To him the Munich Pact was a sameful poilicy of appeasemant.
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A night where Nazi gangs attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues.
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Was between Germany and the Soviet Union. Agreement not to fight each other if you know what nonagression means. There was a second secret pact agreeing to divide Poland.
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Blitzkrieg is a military tactic. Surpise attack bah! Then overwhelm enemy with force.
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After three months of winter fighting, Finland surrender.
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Japan, Germany, and Italy. mutual defense treaty
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Roosevelt was elected for the third time breaking the tradition begun by George Washington
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Surprise invasion of Denmark and Norway. Hilter said it was to protect there freedom and independance.
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IT WAS A BLITZKRIEG!
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Italy invaded France from the south, and Germany from the north.
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Every night for two months bombers pounded London. September 17th ,1940 Hitler called of invasion of Britain
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Act to lend or lease arms and other suplies, total cost of 50 billion
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Leader of Japan,
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Declaration of principals, secret meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. basically destroying the U.S. pacific fleet in one blow.
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Battle of the Philippines , General Douglas MacArthur used Corregidor as Allied headquarters
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Car factories would make tanks, planes, boats and command cars. Mechanical pencil makers made bomb parts. The soda drink company filled shells with explosives instead of bottles of soda.
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Massive evacuation of Japanese from Hawaii. 110,000 Japanese Americans.
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Two objectives, sees oil rich Soviet fields, to capture Stalingrad.
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After Pearl Harbor a lot of people wanted to join the army. Even though a lot of people wanted to join the army, it still wasn't enough so Selective Service drafted more people. G.I is a government issue.
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Americans and Australians intercepted a Japanese strike force
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The WAAC became law. George Marshall stated the WAAC. Women who volunteered would not recive the same rank or benifits.
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Suprise attack on Japanese. Japs got destroyed.
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Place of Japans first loss on land
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The evasion of axis controled North Africa.
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The war production board creates materials for war.
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Organizing ships into convoys. With improve tracking the alies were able to destroy German ships.
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18 months of fighting alies drove Germans from Italian soils.
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President of the Brotherhood of Sleepy Car Porters. Nation leading African American labor leader.
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156,000 troops. Normandy penisula. Heavy casualties
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Japan threw entire fleet into and tried out new suicide plane the kamakaze
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German tanks broke through American defenses, captured 120 american G.I's. Took prisoners and killed them. Germans lost 120,000 troops and 600 tanks and 1600 planes.
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Conference, made a new peace keeping body the U.N.
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Most well defended island needed base for bombing runs
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Roosevelt has a stroke and dies and Truman becomes president.
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Hitler killed himself.
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Japan's last defensive outpost. 7,600 Americans dead. 110,000 Japanese dead
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In defeated Germany, there to make blueprinst on how to get rid of the Nazi party
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First time in history that leaders of nations were held legally responsible for their actions.
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Meant to create nuclear weapons. first detonated on Jul 16.
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Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima & Nagasaki. in total estimating 200,000 people killed
