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| This happened shortly after Hitler invaded Poland |
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| Soviet Union invaded Poland from the East and the Baltic countries |
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| United States first 2 years of World War II |
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| remained neutral while Germany overran France, most of Europe and pounded Britain from the air |
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| air attack of Great Britain by the Germans |
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| Country Hitler attacked in mid-1941 |
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| Soviet Union, their former partner |
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| allowed the United States to provide aid (war supplies, old naval warships) to Britain in exchange for military bases in Bermuda and the Caribbean while still remaining neutral |
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| Compared the Lend-Lease Perform to "lending a garden hose to a next-door neighbor whose house is on fire" |
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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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| Countries Japan invaded during the 1930s |
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| Manchuria and China because they wanted military and economic rule over Asia |
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| What 3 main countries were part of the Allied Powers? | U.S., England, Soviet Union | | What 3 main countries were part of the AxisPowers | Germany, Italy, Japan | | Who was the chief of the United States? | Franklin Roosevelt | | Who was the leader of England? | Winston Churchill | | Who was the leader of the Soviet Union? | Joseph Stalin | | Who was the leader of Germany? | Hitler | | Who was the leader of Italy? | Mussolini | | Who was the leader of Japan? | Hirohito | | What policy said that the US would help allies with supplies? | Roosevelt's Lend-Lease Policy | | what Pact was signed by 62 countries to try to keep world peace? | Kellogg-Briand Pact | | What treaty ended WWI | Versailles Treaty | | What US naval based was attacked? | Pearl Harbor | | What Administration was widened by the Novel Deal where $2 billion dollars in loans advanced local and sate governments? | Reconstruction Finance Adminisration | | What policy was encouraged to help relations with Latin America? | Good Neighbor Policy | what helped improve parks and enrolled youth on relief to dispatch them to these national parks in order to improve them and plant trees. it was the most popula experiment of | Front | Back | What are some examples of Hitler's growing military aggression in the late 1930s? | Some of Hitler's growing military aggression included Hitler militarizing the Rhineland which violated the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler also secretly militarized Germany. Germany then threatened to strike Czechoslovakia if they did not surrender. | How would you portray Neville Chamberlain's policy toward Hitler in the late 1930s? | Chamberlain's policy was the policy of appeasement, or giving in to aggressive demands in order to maintain peace, had prevented an unnecessary war. | Who were the axis powers? | The axis powers were Germany, Italy, and Japan which resulted from a series of agreements that joined them together in a military alliance. | Why do you think Hitler sought allies in the behind 1930s? | Being in an alliance put him in a league with some of the world's other major aggressors. | What execute you think about Stalin's judgment to make a deal with Hitler rather than trust the British and Shared Flashcard SetTerm
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| Many Jewish people and others killed in concentration camps |
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| ship with jewish who sought protection during ww2, but nobody would take them. Ended up in Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, which Germany later took over. |
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| any new factory worker automatically joins union |
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| Smith-connally act - unions had to wait 30 days before a strike |
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| Office of Price Administration |
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| helped control prices to keep them down during war |
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| taxes and bonds which helped pay for war |
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| supposed to go between army, navy and companies to provide supplies. But military did it on their own |
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| National Defense Research Committee |
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| Research for war technology with MIT |
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| told the airplanes when they were within 20 yards of a target |
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| figured out codes of Germany and Japan |
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World War 2 Flashcards Pt.1 | Totalitarianism | Political system in which the government controls the citizens' lives | | Nationalism | Loyalty to one's nation | | Fascism | Political system in which the government is seen as more important than individuals | | Benito Mussolini | Italian leader who gained regulate in 1922 | | Treaty of Versailles | The treaty that supposedly ended World War I | | Adolf Hitler | Politician, World War I veteran, militant nationalist; took advantage of fury to gain power; fiery speaker; one of the most significant people | | Nazis | Hitler's National Socialist Party | | Joseph Stalin | Dictator of the Soviet Union in 1928; terrorized political enemies or those who stood in his way | | Dictators | One who possesses absolute power and sometimes abuses that power | | Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, and Japan | | Allied Powers | Wonderful Britain, France, and the U.S. (Soviet Union did join them, but not as an ally) | | Sudetenland | A region in Czechoslovakia where many Germans lived; Hitler wanted control of this region | | Munich Conference | Germany was given rule over the Sudetenland, but in return, they couldn&
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