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CLEP Western Civilization: WW II
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CLEP Western Civilization: WW II
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1. Was attacked by the Allies. The king of Itlay said Mussolini could no longer be prime minister. Italy sided with the Allies.

2. 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.

3. Presecution of the Jews.

4. Said Germany and Russia were allies. This was only for a short while.

5. Italy invaded this country to try to get more land. They were the only country in Europe to lose against an African country.

6. 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.

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

8. Did not want to give in to Hitlar. His country bombed German cities while the Germans bombed Britain.

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

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

11. Put in charge to kill the Jews.

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

13. May 7 - 1945 when Germany surrender.

14. 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.

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

16. Hitlar tried to take of the government of Bavaria.

17. The south of Franch ruled by the Nazis.

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

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

20. 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.

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

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

23. 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.

24. Battle in 1943 where Germans lost 300 tanks.

25. 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