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Danzer , G., Kreifer , L ., The Americans . (2003) World War Looms 732 - 763

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Effects - economic boom , defeat of Hitler and Japan , established the U.S. as a military super power

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Why - to defeat Hitler's Germany , to stop imperialist Japan from creating an empire , Pearl Harbor (Dec. 1941)

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Where - various parts of Germany , North Africa and the pacific

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Who - Germany , Italy , Japan (Axis) vs. U.S. , Britain , Soviet Union

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concentration camps , starvation , murder , slave labor

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creation of ghettos

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genocide systematic murder of over 2 million people in Europe

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* anti semitism - hatred of jews

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* Hitler blamed the Jews for Germany's defeat in WWl

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V-E Day (1945) surrender of Nazi Germany

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D-Day (1944) invasion of Normandy June 1944

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Battle of Midway (1942) - U.S. victory in the pacific

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Battle of the Bulge (1944 - 1945) - German counterattack

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Harry S. Truman 33rd president of the U.S

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Winston Churchill - prime minister of Great Britain during WWll

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Adolf Hitler - nazi dictator of Germany

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Benito Mussolini - fascist dictator of Italy

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Joseph Stalin - communist dictator of the soviet union.