Respective members of the Triple Entente and Central Powers at the start of WWI
Britain, France, and Russia in the Triple Entente and Germany, Austria, and the Ottoman Empire in the Central Powers
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August 1939 treaty that guaranteed the destruction of Poland
Ribbentropp-Molotov Pact
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Last major battle of WWI in August of 1918. Convinced German generals they couldn't win.
What is the Battle of Amiens
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a war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded.
What is Total War
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Was successful because strategic bombing and the battle of the Atlantic were successful. They both weaken the German economy.
What was the D-Day Invasion
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2 concepts supported by Russia and Serbia and led the Black Hand to assassinate Franz Ferdinand
What is Pan-Slavism and a greater Serbia
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US started the oil embargo against Japan after Japan invaded this country
What is Indochina
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German gift to Ottomans in exchange for a military alliance in WWI
What are two battleships
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what type of warfare did the Germans want to use but were afraid if they did the US would get involved.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare
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Was intended knock out the American Pacific Fleet in one blow (just like they had at the Battle of Tsushima against Russia in 1905) The Japanese hoped to achieve a negotiated peace with the US
What was Pearl Harbor
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Germany's support for Austria was known as this
What is the Blank Check
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3 Goals of Hitler and Nazis
Unify German speaking states through short wars
Acquire lebensraum for Germany
Destroy non-Aryans
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Respective sides joined by Italy, Romania, Japan, and Bulgaria in WWI.
Italy, Romania, and Japan joined the Entente. Bulgaria joined the Central Powers
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named after a German general who first developed the plan in 1895, it underwent several revisions but essentially called for an invasion of France, across Belgian territory, the conquest of Paris followed by an attack on Russia?
What is the Schlieffen plan
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An American program that gave away billions of dollars on food and clothes to Russians so they could focus on fighting
What was Lend-Lease
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The term that refers to Germany wanting to be the political and economic center of Europe
What is Mitteleuropa
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German union with Austria before WWII
What is Anschluss
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3 factors that enabled the Allies to defeat the German u-boat threat in WWII.
What are Ultra code-breaking program, escort carriers, sonar/asdic, improved depth-charges, powerful searchlights
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The deadliest weapon of WWI. Its effectiveness at the Battle of the Marne in 1914 led to the spontaneous digging of trenches
Artillery
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The USSR, like Russia before them, was willing to trade men and space for time until they were able to stop the Germans at this battle. The Soviets relied on attrition and, though they lost more men, were able to nullify German technological advantages and destroy an entire German army.
What was Stalingrad
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the term that refers to Germany wanting to unite all German speakers
What is Pan-Germanism
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Two areas occupied by or taken by France after WWI
What is the Rhineland, Ruhr Valley, Saarland, Alsace-Lorraine
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Strategy in which the US bypassed many islands held by the Japanese in order to take islands that improved the ability of the US to strategically bomb the Japanese home islands
What is island hopping?
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The British navy’s blockade of the North Sea began to take a toll on Germany economically in 1916 at the same time the German forces were suffering dramatic losses at Verdun and the Somme. The resulting food shortage in Germany was known as this
what is Turnip Winter
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Aside from living space for the German Empire, the purpose of this operation was also to destroy the USSR, which the Nazis considered an existential threat, and annihilate the Jews and other ethnic groups of Western Europe the Nazis deemed unfit