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147726173Munich Pactconference that was supposed to guarentee "peace in our time"0
147726174Hitlerdictator of Germany responsible for the start of WWII and the Holocaust1
147726175MussoliniFascist dictator of Italy whowas an ally of Hitler2
147726176Neville ChamberlainLeader in Britain, weak and insufficent3
147726177Winston ChurchillA noted British statesman who led Britain throughout most of World War II and along with Roosevelt planned many allied campaigns. He predicted an iron curtain that would separate Communist Europe from the rest of the West.4
147726178Nazi-Soviet PactSecret agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union; Soviet Union agreed not to attack Germany in exchange for Eastern Poland5
147726179BlitzNighttime bombings on London and other cities6
147726180LuftwaffeGerman term for their airforce7
147726181PanzerGerman term for tank divisions8
147726182DunkirkCity in France were all of the Allied troops centered at one time; Germans did not attack the town and the Allies lived to fight another day9
147726183BlitzkreigLightining warfare; planes ->tanks->troops10
147726184Vichy France2/5 of France ruled as a puppet nation through Germany11
147726185Atlantic Charter of 1941WWII alliance agreement between the United States and Britain; included a clause that recgonized the right of all people to choose the form of gov't under which they live; indicated sympathy for decolonization12
147726186Pearl HarborName for the harbor that the Japanse bombed; this brought the US into the war13
147726187Operation BarbarosaWhen the Germans broke the Nazi-Soviet Pact and attacked Russia14
147726188HolocaustThe mass killing of Jews orchastrated by the Germans15
147726189Final SolutionHitler's attempt to rid Europe of any undesirables16
147726190Genocidea mass killing of a race17
147726191Ghettoan area in the city where a minority lives18
147726192EisenhowerUnited States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany19
147726193PattonThe Commander of the Allied forces in North Africa20
147726194MacArthurUnited States general who served as chief of staff and commanded Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II21
147726195D-DayJune 6, 1944;155,000 men landed on the beaches of Normady and stormed German occupied France22
147726196Stalingradturning point for Russia during the war; Red army victory23
147726197HimmlerGerman Nazi who was chief of the SS and the Gestapo and who oversaw the genocide of six million Jews (1900-1945)24
147726198Joseph Mengele"doctor death" performed experiments on Jews25
147726199YamamotoJapanese admiral who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 (1884-1943)26
147726200TojoJapanese army officer who initiated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and who assumed dictatorial control of Japan during World War II27
147726201Mobilizationto prepare one's country for war28
147726202KamikaziJapanese suicide pilots29

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