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Different fighting strategies in WWI and WWII

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Different fighting strategies in WWI and WWII

WWl was slow with trench warfare. WWll was fast with lightning warfare strategies

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Indemnity

payment for damages

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Operation Barbarossa

hitler launched a massive invasion of the soviet union

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Operation Overlord

enormous amount of secret planning for this combined air and amphibious operation

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Hierarchy

organization where people ranked 1 above the other by authority

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Partisans

member of an armed group formed to fight secretly against an occupying force

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Embargo

  • government band on trade goods

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Beer Hall Putsch

  • hitlers first attempt to take over germany

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Good Neighbor Policy

  • roosevelt withdrew marines from caribbean-based nations

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Lend Lease Act

  • program that allowed the US to send war material to allies

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Manhattan Project

US began building an atomic bomb

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Neutrality Acts

  • kept the US from selling war material to warring nations

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Non-Aggression Pact

  • agreement between Soviet Union and Germany to NOT attack each other during WW2

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Tuskegee Airmen

  • an all african-american unit of fighter pilots, the only unit during WWll never to lose a single bomber in all their missions

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Hideki Tojo

  • became head of the Japanese government

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Neville Chamberlain

  • Prime Minister of Britain who stated we have “peace in our time”

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Winston Churchill

  • Prime Minister of Britain who asked for the U.S. for any war material

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Albert Einstein-

  • warned FDR about the Nazis making an atomic bomb

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adolph hitler

  • dictatorial leader of Nazi Germany (Fuhrer)

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mussolini

  • dictatorial leader of Fascist Italy

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Franklin Roosevelt

president of us

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Joseph Stalin

dictatorial leader of soviet union

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harry truman

  • assumed the Presidency after ROosevelt’s death

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allies powers

    • US, Britain, France, Russia, China

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axis powers

  • -Germany, Italy, Japan and later Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria

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the london blitz

  • Hitler destroying the British capital of London in a night-time bombing campaign

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sequence of battles in europe

    1. Battle of Britain

    1. Battle of Kursk

    1. D-Day

    1. Battle of Bulge

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Date of D-Day-

june 6, 1944

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What did Hitler violate in the Treaty of Versailles

    1. Refused to pay war reparations 2. Built up an air force 3. Constructed submarines

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Differences between the Nazis and Italian Fascists

Nazis acted on racial superiority of the germanic people, Fascists did not possess racial hatred toward any one group

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Reasons why Hitler attacked the Soviet Union-

    1. Hitler had a basic distrust of Stalin and he hated communism 2. He was casting a greedy eye towards the rich oil fields in the Caucasus Mountains 3. He considered the Slavs (Russians) inferior to his Germans 4. His armies and air force had conquered Northern, Westerm, and Southern Europe (all except eastern)

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What helped British during  the Battle of Britain

radar

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Why Japan became militaristic

to strengthen japans economic and industrial foundations

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