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World War II the Cold War
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The Course of WW II
The Holocaust
Human Costs of WW II
Power Shifts Following WW II
Leaders in WW II
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• The war begins with the German invasion of this
  country, which had just re-emerged as a nation
  following World War I.

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• What is Poland?

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• By 1941, this country is the ONLY European
  country that remains free from German control.

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• What is Great Britain?

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• This date which will live in infamy marks the
  entrance of the United States into World War II.

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• What is Dec. 7th, 1941 the bombing of Pearl
  Harbor, Hawaii by Japanese Kamikaze pilots?

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• June 6, 1944 the Allies launch this massive land
  and sea attack at Normandy (Northern France) by
  August, France and neighboring areas are free of
  Axis control.

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• What was Operation Overlord, or D-Day?

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• This the name of the campaign used by the Allies
  to regain control of the Pacific, taking control
  of the area, one island at a time.

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• What is the island-hopping campaign?

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• At the Yalta Conference, these three leaders met
  to plan dividing Germany into two halves (east
  and west), in order to weaken it.

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• Who are Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt (FDR)?

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• This U.S Army General commanded the Allied forces
  in the Pacific and led U.S. troops in the Korean
  War.

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• Who was Douglas MacArthur?

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• This busy U.S. Army General commanded Allied
  forces in Europe led the D-Day invasion of
  mainland Europe helped unite Allied troops. He
  was later elected president of the United States
  in 1952.

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• Who was Dwight Eisenhower?

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• This British Prime Minister coined the phrase
  iron curtain as a means of describing
  Soviet-controlled satellite nations in Eastern
  Europe.

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• Who was Winston Churchill?

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• This fascist dictator formed an alliance with
  Germany suffered military defeats and was
  overthrown by the Italian king in 1943 he was
  later killed by Italian insurgents in 1945.

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• Who is Benito Mussolini?

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• Term given by Nazis to describe the need for
  living space as a justification for invading
  eastern European lands of Slavic peoples, whom
  they deemed inferior.

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• What is Lebensraum?

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• Under the Nuremberg Laws, Jews were stripped of
  their citizenship and other rights. They were
  deprived of their property and sent to these
  crowded, isolated areas where many died of
  starvation and disease.

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• What are ghettos?

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• This was the name Hitlers policy of using
  slave-labor camps, death camps, and killing
  squads by Nazis in an effort to resolve the
  Jewish question.

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• What is the Final Solution?

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• Nazis pursued a policy of racial purity,
  believing that this group was superior to all
  others.

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• What are Aryans?

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• Besides Jews, Gypsies (Romani), and Homosexuals,
  these groups were also targeted for persecution
  from the Nazis.

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• Who were the mentally and physically handicapped,
  Jehovahs Witnesses, and political dissenters?
  

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• This term describes a person who is not on active
  military duty. The total number of losses for
  these people exceeded the nearly 20 million
  military losses.

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• Who are civilians?

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• Although staggering, the losses in World War II
  could have been twice as high if it wasnt for
  this helpful medicine and other medical advances
  made in treating the wounded.

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• What is penicillin?

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• At an estimated seven million military losses, or
  casualties, this country suffered the greatest
  losses of all the nations involved in WW II.

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• What is Russia, or the Soviet Union?

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• Due in part to its late entrance in the war, and
  its geographical distance from the bulk of the
  fighting, this country had the least number of
  military losses.

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• What is the United States?

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• World War I has been described as the war to end
  all wars but 30 years later, this made World War
  II the most destructive war in history.

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• What is the death toll of WW II?

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• At the Yalta Conference, this country wanted a
  divided Germany that lacked the power to start
  wars.

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• What is the Soviet Union?

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• At the Yalta Conference, this country favored a
  reunited Germany as a part of a democratic and
  economically stable Europe.

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• What is the United States?

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• This term is used to define the Soviet Unions
  desire to have control of nations in Eastern
  Europe in order to prevent future aggression from
  the West.

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• What are satellites or buffer-states?

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• The division of this German capital city at the
  end of the war was supposed to have been
  temporary.

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• What is Berlin?

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• Term given to describe the two nations that
  emerged from World War II as the most powerful
  nations in the world.

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• What are superpowers?

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• This group of people was the second-largest group
  of civilians killed by the Nazis.

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• What are Soviet Prisoners of War?

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The Cold War
Transformation in China
Resistance in Eastern Europe
Creation of the Israeli State
Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan
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• The US and the USSR were engaged in hostility
  that consumed resources and affected world
  politics in the historical period known as this.

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• What is the Cold War?

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• The Soviet Union believed that the United States
  would do this in other countries.

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• What is suppress revolution?

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• This was the goal of both the US and the USSR
  during the Cold War.

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• What is to be a dominant power in the world?

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• The United States believed that the USSR wanted
  to do this on a global scale.

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• What is spread communism to other countries?

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• The Soviet Union and the United States competed
  for dominance in these regions during the Cold
  War.

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• What are the Congo (1960), Egypt (1954-1970),
  Vietnam (1964-1973), and Chile (1973)?

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• This policy offered foreign aid to any country
  threatened by communist expansion.

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• What is the Truman Doctrine(1947)?

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• This provided foreign aid to 16 democratic
  European nations that struggled to recover from
  WW II. The U.S. believed this would help them
  avoid communist influence.

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• What is the Marshall Plan(1948)?

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• These formed the foundation of U.S. foreign
  policy during the Cold War called Containment.

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• What are the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall
  Plan?

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• The Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan were
  developed in response to this.

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• What is a worldwide economic depression?

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• Before World War II, the United States adopted
  this type of foreign policy.

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• What is isolationism?

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• Mao Zedongs ambitious program that created
  collective farms called communes.

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• What is the Great Leap Forward?

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• Maos economic model, the Great Leap Forward,
  served as an alternative to the industrial
  emphasis of this countrys form of communism.

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• What is the Soviet Union?

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• Failure of the Great Leap Forward due to poor
  planning and severe droughts brought this to the
  Chinese people.

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• What is widespread famine known as the Great
  Chinese Famine?

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• Militia units of the Cultural Revolution in China
  that was comprised mostly of young people who
  carried out the purge of Chinese intellectuals,
  capitalists, and other alleged counterrevolutiona
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• What is the Red Guard?

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• Site of many political events in China the
  best-known of these were protests in 1989. Tanks
  and troops entered Beijing to suppress the
  protest, killing and injuring thousands of
  protesters.

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• What is Tiananmen Square?

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• In 1989 the communist party in this country votes
  to dissolve itself and pass legislation that will
  allow for free elections and a democratic
  political system.

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• What is Hungary?

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• Peaceful student protests in Czechoslovakia
  launch the ________ _______, a mostly nonviolent
  transition from communist power, as the communist
  govt resigns and is replaced by a non-communist
  government.

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• What is the Velvet Revolution?

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• This trade union launches strikes against the
  communist regime in Poland in 1980 its famous
  leader Lech Walesa is jailed and the union is
  outlawed.

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• What is the trade union Solidarity?

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• Anti-communist revolts break out in Hungary in
  1956 the Soviet Union crushes the uprising and
  executes this former communist leader who led the
  revolt.

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• Who is Imre Nagy?

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• In 1968 communist leader Alexander Dubcek begins
  democratic reforms in Czechoslovakia known as
  this. Later, the Soviet Union invades the
  country, repeals these reforms and expels Dubcek
  from the party.

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• What is Prague Spring?

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• Political movement of the 19th century that
  sought to unite Jews around the world and settle
  them in a new Jewish nation-state.

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• What is Zionism?

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• Promise of support for Zionists by the British
  government designed to create a Jewish state by
  partitioning (dividing it) Palestine.

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• What is the Balfour Declaration?

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• This term describes the scattering of the Jewish
  people throughout Europe and Asia since the
  ancient Roman Empire.

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• What is the Diaspora?

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• This region has experienced growing unrest
  between secular governments and Islamic
  traditions.

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• What is the Middle East?

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• The modern state of Israel is surrounded on all
  sides by these countries all of which opposed
  the creation of an Israeli state.

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• What are Muslim countries?

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• This nation has been in a state of near-constant
  war with its neighbors since its inception in
  1947.

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• What is Israel?

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