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CLEP Western Civilization: WW II
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CLEP Western Civilization: WW II
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1. Put in charge to kill the Jews.

2. Germans attacked in Belgium. American had to retreat. More lives were lost in this battle than in any other in the history of America. Soon - the Allies were gaining on the Germans again.

3. This party was against democracry and did not believe that it worked. They thought that war made the politc stronger.

4. The largest death camp bulit by the nazis were over 1 million Jews were killed. About 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust. Slavs were also executed.

5. Where Bernard Montgomery won over German Erwin Rommel in Egypt. The Allies kept the Suez Canal.

6. Germany attacked Russia - but Germany did not have a very big supply line - and the winter in Russia was harsh - so it did not last too long.

7. Acts passed by the U.S. congress saying that the United States was going to stay out of any wars over seas.

8. U.S. gave Britain ships for bases on British soil and they gave Britain supplies for the war because they promised to pay the U.S. back when the war was over.

9. Some people said they were just following orders by murdering so many people.

10. When the Allies invaded Normandy beach. Omaha beach was the code name. They slowly began gaining over the Germans.

11. Promised to end democracy in Germany if he and the Nazis were elected. Wrote Mein Kampf while was in prision.

12. Presecution of the Jews.

13. Was not captured for years. Hannah Arendt wrote a book called Eichmann in Jerusalem about him and said he was not very interested in the Holocaust he was a part of.

14. The south of Franch ruled by the Nazis.

15. The year 1922 when followers of Mussolini march to Rome. Victor Emmanuel II asked Mussolini to become the prime minister.

16. The French who thought they were secure against the Nazis.

17. Was attacked by the Allies. The king of Itlay said Mussolini could no longer be prime minister. Italy sided with the Allies.

18. A fire was there and Hitlar blamed the Communists for it so he could take control of Germany.

19. Where British and German troops were taken out at Belgium.

20. Got power in Italy. did not want democracy

21. The army who helped to round up the jews.

22. The joined powers of Hitlar and Mussolini. called the Anschluss.

23. Started at the end of the First World War.

24. A conference between the Allies. Truman accused Stalin . and told them that the U.S. had and atomic bomb. Two were dropped in Japan four days later

25. Met in Switzerland to say that the Jews should have a land to call home. Theodore Herzl is famous for Zionism. The U.S. was the first to say Isreal was a nation.