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9639806353Revisionist PowersJapan, Germany and Italy (Axis Powers) who wanted to revise the Treaty of Versailles0
9639806354Marco Polo BridgeThe first move in the invasion from Japan to China1
9639806355The Rape of NanjingJapanese soldiers raped thousands of women, murdered unarmed civilians, and burned 1/3 of the houses in Nanjing2
9639806356United Front PolicyChinese unanimous decision among Communists and Nationalists that united themselves into an army against the Japanese3
9639806357Tripartite ActJapan-signed act with Germany and Italy that guaranteed economic and military support4
9639806358Francisco FrancoLeader of Spanish Revolution who was aided by Hitler and Mussolini in order to overthrow the republican government5
9639806359November CrimeHitler's reference to the signing of the Treaty of Versailles6
9639806360AnschlussGermany's forced "union" with Austria7
9639806361Munich ConferenceEuropean meeting that introduced appeasement (1938)8
9639806362Appeasementconceding to demands of aggressive nations9
9639806363Neville ChamberlainBritain's prime minister who represented during Munich Conference10
9639806364Russia-German Treaty of NonaggressionTreaty signed between Russia and Germany that stated neither side would attack the other and promised neutrality if either one went to war with a third party11
9639806365fireside chatsFranklin Roosevelt's famous radio broadcasts to the nation12
9639806366Franklin Rooseveltpresident throughout WWII13
9639806367Panzer"armored" tanks14
9639806368Nazi-Soviet PactSoviets took eastern Poland15
9639806369Blitzkrieg"lightning war" that Germany executed efficiently16
9639806370Untersebootesubmarines17
9639806371LuftwaffeGerman air-force18
9639806372Lebensraum"living space" that was created for the Germans by exterminating Jews, Poles and Bolsheviks19
9639806373Operation BarbarossaGermany's invasion into Soviet Russia, lead by Hitler against Stalin20
9639806374LeningradThe German heartland that signaled Germany's official dominance over Soviet Russia21
9639806375Pearl HarborJapanese attack on US-owned base in Hawaii, started US involvement in WWII22
9639806376Vichy GovernmentGerman-backed French government23
9639806377Tojo Hidekiassumed the office of Prime Minister in Japan, which eventually made him responsible for the bombing of Pearl Harbor24
9639806378Liberty ShipsAllie's warships25
9639806379D-DayBritish and US troops landed on the coast of Normandy, eventually defeating the Germans there and taking back France26
9639806380Dresden Fire BombingBritish bombed innocent Germans with extreme intensity27
9639806381ReichstagGermany's Parliament buidling28
9639806382"Magic"enabled a cryptographer monitoring Japanese radio frequencies to know about attack on Midway29
9639806383Kamikazepilots who "volunteered" to fly planes with just enough fuel to fly into an Allie ship30
9639806384Hiroshima and Nagasakisites of atomic bomb dropped by Allies on Japan31
9639806385Emperor HirohitoSurrendered to Soviet Union in 194532
9639806386Greater Germanic EmpireHitler's plan for a nation of racially valuable people (Aryans)33
9639806387Waffen SSHitler's elite military formations34
9639806388House of OrangeNetherlands royal figurehead that was disrespected by people35
9639806389SS EinsatzgruppenGerman action squads that killed entire populations of Jews and Gypsies36
9639806390"final solution"Hitler's plan to exterminate the "lesser race" by industrialized murder37
9639806391Wannsee ConferenceGermany's meeting to plan out the final solution38
9639806392WAVESWomen Appointed for Volunteer Emergency Service in the navy39
9639806393Comfort WomenJapanese women who were forced into brothels as compensation to Japanese soldiers war efforts40
9639806394Cold WarBuilding of tension throughout the world at the end of WWII that implied a sense of Democracy versus Communism, making everyone strengthen opposing alliances41
9639806395United Nationsa supranational organization that was dedicated to keeping world peace and security (formed by the US, Soviet Union, Great Britain, France and China)42
9639806396Truman Doctrinelegitimized the "danger" of communism from a democratic US point of view43
9639806397European Recovery Program/ Marshall Planproposed to rebuild European economies through cooperation and capitalism44
9639806398COMECONSoviet-established "Council for Mutual Economic Assistance"45
9639806399North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)US-sponsored signalization of the cold war46
9639806400Warsaw PactSoviet response to NATO47
9639806401Berlin's BlockadeSoviet Union tried to get Western powers to surrender influence on Berlin, so they made a blockade all around it48
9639806402Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)US, Britain, France coalesced to form this49
9639806403German Democratic Republic (East Germany)Emerged out of Soviet zone of occupation, creating friction with West Germany50
9639806404Berlin WallWall that was built to separate East and West-influenced Berlin51
9639806405Jiang JieshiNationalist Chinese leader who fell after WWII52
9639806406Mao ZedongCommunist opposed to Jieshi who founded People's Republic of China53
9639806407Republic of KoreaUS-sponsored Southern Korea54
9639806408People's Democratic Republic of KoreaSoviet-Sponsored North Korea55
9639806409Southeast Asian Treaty OrganizationImposed by US onto Korea, counterpart of NATO56
9639806410"domino theory"theory formed by Eisenhower that suggested Communism spreading around itself57
9639806411MADmutually assured destruction58
9639806412Fidel Castro RuzCuban revolutionary who overthrew Batista and Zaldivar who eventually formed alliance with Soviet Union59
9639806413Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivarautocratic leaders of Cuba before Fidel Castro who had strong ties with US60
9639806414Bay of Pigs InvasionUS attempted to invade Cuba but epicly failed61
9639806415John F. KennedyPresident during Cuban Missile crisis62
9639806416*Nikita Khrushchev*Soviet Premier who implemented de-Stalinization63
9639806417Alexander DubcekCommunist party leader who launched a "democratic socialist revolution"64
9639806418Prague SpringDubcek's movement to promote "socialism with a human face"65
9639806419Leonid BrezhnevKhrushnev's successor who justified invasion of Czechoslavakia66
9639806420detentereduction in hostility in order to keep the peace between Democratic and Communist tension67

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