AP Euro - World War II (1939-1945)
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| 1939; Germany, Italy, and Japan | ||
| 1940; An extension of the Rome-Berlin Axis to Include Japan | ||
| Germany's "Ligntning war" | ||
| Hitler's Agreement with Stalin over the conquering of Poland | ||
| "Phony War" with Hitler in 1939-1940 where Hitler prepared for his attack | ||
| 1939; The French defense against a German invasion | ||
| 1940; After Hitler conquered France and trapped the British soldiers, the British were able to ferry the British soldiers accross the English Channel to saftey | ||
| 1940; Puppet State in France | ||
| 1940; The head of the Vichy Government | ||
| 1940; The leader of French resistance forces; Escaped to England to orchestrate French resistance against the Vichy Government and the Nazis | ||
| Prime Minsiter of England in 1940 and 1955; Successor to Chamberlain | ||
| German Air Force during the Battle for Britain | ||
| The leader of the German Luftwaffe | ||
| 1941; Hitler's offensive against Russia; Goal was to gain control of the Ukraine's wheat fields and oil fields | ||
| The battle where Hitler's soldiers waited during the cold, Russian winter | ||
| 1941 March; Congress' act which alled the president to lend or sell war materials to any country he deemed vital to that country's defense | ||
| The common name for British-Soviet-US economic alliance | ||
| 1941 August; Roosevelt and Churchill's peace principles | ||
| 1942; British General who defeated German and Italian forces in North Africa | ||
| 1942; Led German and Italian forces in North Africa at El Alamein | ||
| 1942; American general who took command of joing Anglo-American forces in Morocco and Algiers | ||
| 1942; The first battle where the US defeated Japan and both stopped their advance in the Pacific and prevented another attach on Hawaii | ||
| 1942; Battle between the US and Japan wheich established American naval superiority in the Pacific | ||
| 1942; The Americnan General who started island-hopping to capture strategic Japanese-held islands | ||
| The location of the first US offensive against Japan in the Solomon Islands | ||
| 1942-1943; A six month struggle in which Soviet forces defeated Germany; The turning point in World War II | ||
| The meeting place of Roosevelt and Churchill where they decided to not surrender until the Axis surrendered unconditionally | ||
| The Allies' General who invaded Sicily then mainland Italy; Made Mussolini resign and Italy surrender | ||
| 1943; The location of the meeting of the Big Three for the first time; Agreed on postware occupation of Germany, demilitiraziton of Germany, and the creation of an international peace organization; Roosevelt promised to open up a second front through France | ||
| 1944; "D-Day"; Eisenhower directed an assault on a beach in France; Established the second front through France | ||
| 1944; Germany's last effort of a counterattach through Belgium and the Argonne Forest | ||
| 1945; The name of the meeting which drew the structure of postware Europe; Finally decided on the division of Germany; Stalin agreed to hold free elections in Easter Europe and to declare war against Japan in return for land lost in the Russo-Japanese war | ||
| 1945; Battle agasint America and Tokyo | ||
| May 8, 1945; The name of the day which ended World War II | ||
| 1945; The meeting of Chruchill, Stalin, and Truman to address issues of postware Gernamy and free Eastern Europe elections | ||
| The efforts of Hitler and the Nazis to destroy all of the Jews of Europe | ||
| 1935; Laws which placed severe restrictions on Jews in Germany | ||
| 1938; Riots against Jews which initiated a persecution of Jews | ||
| 1945; An international organization to preserve peace; Proceeded the League of Nations |
