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World History Study Guide from 1648 (view source)
Revision as of 18:58, December 2, 2011
, 18:58, December 2, 2011→Honors terms
|[[World War II]]
|[[World War II]]
|World War II began in the 1930's when Germany invaded Poland. It lasted until 1945 when the Allied powers defeated the Axis powers and forced them to surrender.
|World War II began in the 1930's when Germany invaded Poland. It lasted until 1945 when the Allied powers defeated the Axis powers and forced them to surrender.
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|[[blitzkrieg]]
|German for "lightning war," high-speed attack which combines bombing with a tank invasion; first launched by Hitler against Poland in 1939
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|[[Marian Rejewski]]
|Polish mathematician who first broke the German Enigma code in 1932
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|[["Ultra"]]
|Allied code-breaking effort; said by General Eisenhower to have been decisive to their victory over Germany
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|[[Pearl Harbor Attack]]
|Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese launched a surprise attack on US navy fleet in Hawaii; Congress declared war on Japan and entered WWII
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|[[''Korematsu v. United States'']]
|1944 Case involving the forcing of Japanese Americans to move into interment camps during WWII; the Court sided with the government, ruling that the exclusion order was constitutional
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[[Category:World History lectures]]
[[Category:World History lectures]]