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| Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
cities were the atomic bomb was dropped |
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| Okinawa |
was the Pacific Front;s largest amphibious operation; door to Japan now open |
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| Iwo Jima |
Srategic location for Americans; Japan used bushido code |
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| Battle of Leyte Gulf |
largest naval battle of the war in Philippines where kamikaze pilots were first used |
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| Battle of midway |
US was prepared for this Jap, attack; prevented attk on Hawaii |
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| Battle of coral sea |
carrier-based plane fighting; stopped japan from expanding southward |
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| Doolittle raid |
symbolie attack on tokyo |
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| Pearl Harbor |
Jap. attk on dec. 7th, 1941 which caused US to enter WWII |
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| Battle of the Buldge |
failed German offensive which tried to stop the Allied advance to Germany |
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| D-Day |
Allied invasion of Normandy, France that led to the Allied liberation of France |
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| Stalingrad |
included house-to-house fighting and forced a German retreat in the eastern front |
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| THe struggle for Italy |
battle which began with the incasion of sicily; knocked Italy out of the war |
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| North Africa |
first major allies win that included the surrender of the Afrika Korps |
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| Battle of Britain |
fight b/t German and British air forces; resulted in bombing of London but Britain free |
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| Battle of the Atlantic |
fought for controol of Allied supply lines;involved radar, ubats and convoys |
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| BATTLES |
BATTLES |
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| Lend-Lease act |
passed by the US to help aid the Allies, especially Great Britain |
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| Nazi-Soviet Pact |
Secret agreement betweem the Soviet Union and Germany to divide Poland |
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| Internment |
system where Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated and imprisoned due to fears they might sabatoge US war efforts of bbe spies |
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| Liberation |
term given to process of freeing those ubnder nasi rule as allies took territory back, including concentration or death camps |
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| Bushido |
term given to Japanese beilef in no surrender that led to huge losses in Iwo Jima |
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| Kamikaze |
term given to japanese suicide missions which utilized planes as bombs |
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| Island hopping |
stragey of moving closer to japan by attacking certain, important islands |
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| Holocaust |
term for Hitlers and the Nazis' murder of the Jews in Europe and other "undesirables" |
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| Rationing |
limiting the items for civilians at home to make sure supplies are available for the war effort |
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| Homefront |
term used to describe efforts ar home to help the war effort |
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| Blitzkrieg |
German tern for a swift, massive attack using tanks; means"lighting war" |
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| Appeasement |
policy of keeping Germany happy in attempt to keep peace |
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