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Benito Mussolini
Fascisti Party
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Theodore Morrell
Hitler's Physicians
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Joseph Kennedy
American Ambassador to Britain
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Predicted that would tone down once the country recovered
Joseph Kennedy
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Given to France after world war 1 in 1936
Rhineland
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Union of Germany and Austria
Anschluss
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A meeting to discuss Hitler's demands for Sudentenland by Britain and France
Munich Confeence
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Priemer of France
Eduard Deladier
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Prime Minister of Great Britain
Neville Chamberlain
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Attended the Munich Conference
- Adolph Hitler
- Eduard Deladier
- Neville Chamberlain
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Giving the child what they want in hopes that they will demand anything else
Appeasement
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Roosevelt sends a ship on a fact finding tour
Panay
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ship that drops anchor in Yangtzee River in China
Panay
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Roaad to War: American 1914-1917
Walter Millius
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One Hell of a Business
Walter Millius
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Market of Death
Walter Millius
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Walter Millius
- Market of Death
- One Hell of a Business
- Road to War: American 1914-1917
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Chairman of Nye Committee
Gerald Nye
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Committee to investigate whether the claims where valid
Nye Committee
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Prohibets business and government from providing any kind of assistance to nations at war
Neutrality Acts
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Journalist who warned readers that AH and the Germans posed a real threat not just for world peace but also American interests
Dorthy Thompson
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Concerned about the repression that was happening in Germany (free speech prohibited)
Howard M. Jones
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Convinced Roosevelt that the war in Japan is inevitable
Billy Mitchell
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Long range heavy bomber, drops atomic bomb in Hiroshima
B-29
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Jesse Owens
- Ties and sets 3 world records
- wins 4 gold medals
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Berlin Olympics
Olympic games held in Berlin in 1936
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Current champion heavyweight boxing
Joe louis
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Challenger of Joe Louis in heavyweight boxing
Max Schemelling
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Not included in the Munich Conference
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Included in the Munich Conference
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Blitzkrig
introduced by Germans; Lightning war
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Lutwaffe
German Air Force
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Hans Bartram
films the entire event, the blitzkrig
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Phony War
period of 6 weeks where Hitler does nothing
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Attack Barbarossa
attack on the Soviet Union on June 1941
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Lend Lease
Program that shipped supplies from US to British (violation of the Neutrality Act)
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Tripartite Pact
alliance between Germany, Italy and Japan in September 1941
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Burke-Wadsworth Bill
the first peacetime act
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Cordell Hull
Seceretary of state who is meeting with the Japanese delegate
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Isoruku Yamamoto
Planned the attack in Pearl Harbor
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Pearl Harbor
attack by the Japanese to the American naval base
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Two battle groups led by
Chester Nimitz and D. MacArthur
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Coral Sea
Japanese invade Australia but defeated by Americans
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Midway Island
1800 miles from Hawaii..Last barrier before Japanese invasion of the United States
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D-Day
Japanese allies ready to regain control of the European Continent
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Normandy
Coastline of France
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Dwight Eisenhower
launched an invasion at five points along the Normandy
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The Ten Thousand Plane Raid
Massive Attack in Berlin
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Dresden
attack on an industrial city in Germany
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Manhatten Project
use radio active material to build weapon using the knowledge of Albert Einstein
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Robert Oppenheimer
responsible fort he scientific aspect
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White sands, NM
test the Manhatten project
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Harry Stimson
secretary of war
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Tinian
air base, to launch the attack on Japan
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Enola Gay
plane captained be PAul Tibbetts
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Hiroshima
First bomb by the United States to Japan
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Nagasaki
an industrial city in Japan, Second Bomb of the United States to Japan
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August 15th, 1945
Japan surrendered
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Emperor Hirohito
addresses his people saying they have been victims of a weapon of an unknown type
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Okinawa
US lost ten thousand men
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War Powers Act
gives president unlimited power to do what he has to do to fight the war
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Henry Kaiser
engineer, building the dam at Colorado River
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Henry Kaiser-Prefabrication
an ocean going vessel required six months to be build
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Prefabrication
reduced that tip to two days
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