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Lightening war
Blitzkrieg
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German political party headed by Hitler
Nazi
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Nickname for the leaders of China, Russia, Great Britain, and the United States
The Big Four
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Name given to German dive bomber
Stuka
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Secret supporters fo the enemy within a nation
the fifth column
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German air force
Luftwaffe
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Another name for the phony war
Sitzkrieg
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Political party of Italy
Fascist
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Nickname for Benito Mussolini
Il Duce
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German team for "living space"
Lebensraum
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Nicname for Hitler
der Fuhrer
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German secret police
Gestapo
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Name given for Japanese suicide planes
Kamikaze
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Nickname for the invasion of Normandy, June 6,1944
D-Day
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Term by which the RAF was best known
The Few
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Site of the greatest amphibious assault in history
Okinawa
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Germany's massive air assault on England in 1940 and 1941
Battle of Britain
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Leader of the free French after France fell
Charles de Gaulle
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Japans emperor during WW2
Hirohito
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Battle in May 1942 that stopped the Japanese advance towards Australia
Coral Sea
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Line in France bypassed by Germans, string of forts
Maginot Line
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Island site fo the bloodiest battle in Marine Corps history
Iwo Jima
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African nation invaded by Italy in 1935
Ethiopia
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Island used by the allies to invade Italy
Sicily
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Famous 1944 battle in Belgium, last major German offensive
Battle of the Bulge
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Turning point in the war with Japan
The naval battle of the Midway
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Soviet city which refused to surrender to German troops during the winter of 1942
Stalingrad
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French coastal city from which 300 000 allied troops were evacuated in May 1940
Dunkirk
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Conference held on the Crimean Peninsula in February 1945
Yalta
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Hitlers plan to invade England
Operation Sea Lion
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Area invaded by Japan in 1931
Manchuria
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Site of the infamous Japanese death march
Bataan
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Bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan
Enola Gay
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Agreement that gave Hitler part of Czechoslovakia in 1938
Munich
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Agreement not to use war to settle disputes
Kellog-Briand Pact
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collective security
all other countries come to the aid of the attacked country
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Disarmament commission
reduce weapon stocks
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Eastern Pact
Agreement not to use war to settle disputes
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Locarno treaties
Treaties of respect in hopes for a peaceful Europe
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two aims of the league of nations
keep peace, make the world a better place
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three limitations of the league of nations
legal mean, sanctions, military involvment
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Stresa Front
Agreement between Italy, France, and Britain condemning Hitler's rearmament of Germany
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Protectionism
method of reducing foreign imports by raising customs duties and thus making foreign goods more expensive
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Treaty of Versailles
Ended WW1, left Germany unhappy and angry
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Agreement between Russia and Germany to share Poland
Nazi-Soviet Pact
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Operation Barbarossa
Germany's plan to invade Russia
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scorched-earth policy
destroy anything the enemy can utilize
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Tripartite Axis Pact
Agreement of Italy, Germany, and Japan to help eachother if attacked
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partisans
civilian resistors
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guerilla warfare
destroying that which the enemy can use
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Fascist soldiers following Mussolini
Black Shirts
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Totalitarianism
Total control
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Anchluss
union between Austria and Germany
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sudentenland
Northern Czech Republic inhabited by Germans, rich in resources
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Polish Guarentee
Britain and France's promise to back Poland if Germany attacked
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Pact of Steel
Mussolini's name for Germany and Italy's military alliance
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Which countries fell to the Nazi's?
Poland, Denmark, Norway, France. Britain stood alone
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Operation Yellow
Germans used blitzkrieg tactics to invade Holland and Belgium to get to France
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Vichy
Government of France that collaborated with the Axis powers
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The blitz
bombings on Britain from September to May
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United Nations Declaration
Document agreed to by 26 governments at the Arcadia conference to defeat the Axis powers
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Operation Torch
American/British invasion of French colonies in Africa
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Casablanca Conference
Meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill to discuss the war
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Gustav Line
German line of defense near Rome
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V.E. Day
May 8, 1945 Victory in Europe day
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V.J. Day
Victory over Japan Day September 3, 1945
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Operation Thunderclap
Massive bombing attacks by Britain to destroy Germany's will to fight
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Iwo Jima and Okinawa
Site fo greatest assaults in history
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Years of the war
1939-1945
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Year of the greatest axis advance
1942
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Year the U.S. entered the war
1941
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Year the Russians were attacked by Germany
1941
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