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| 5683116707 | Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact | Agreement to split Poland between Germany and Russia (secret part) without fighting (public part) |  | 0 |
| 5683116708 | Axis Powers | Rome Berlin Axis Italy, Germany, Japan (Austria as well) |  | 1 |
| 5683116709 | Allied Powers | Britain, France Then, the Soviet Union and United States |  | 2 |
| 5683116710 | Blitzkrieg | "Lightening War" Swift, quick, controlled strikes Very Precise, no let up Planes, Tanks, Army Timing is key |  | 3 |
| 5683116712 | Addrennes Forest | The way Germany pushes through France without having to go through the Maginot line. VERY successful | 4 | |
| 5683116713 | Dunkirk Evacuation | Dunkirk was a small town in France along the English channel. The Germans were pushing the Allies to the sea. Fisherman notice these troops and begin to save them, taking them to Britain. Hitler tells his men not to pursue them, so many troops are saved to later kill Germans. |  | 5 |
| 5683116714 | Vichy France | Part of France free from German control |  | 6 |
| 5683116715 | Philippe Petain | Leader of Vichy government in France. He must comply to all of the German policies that the Germans tell them too like Racial policies. |  | 7 |
| 5683116716 | Charles de Gaulle | Leader of officials who escaped to England when Germany attacked France. He smuggled war goods to France against Germany. |  | 8 |
| 5683116717 | The Battle of Britain | Following the occupation of France, Germany's air force attacks Britain. As they were about to win, Hitler decides to attack civilian areas to show the public what war really was like. He wanted them to go to their leader to end war. It doesn't work. They get even more angry at Hitler and the air force is able to recover in this time period. |  | 9 |
| 5683116718 | The Blitz | The bombing of London |  | 10 |
| 5683116719 | Neutrality Acts | The United States promises to be completely isolated even with trading to avoid war. |  | 11 |
| 5683116720 | The Atlantic Charter 1941 | Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in the middle of the ocean and both believe America would get involved in the war. They start planning the future and what the world would look like after the war. Both know the Allies would win. They know all countries will return to original borders from 1930 and agree to a more general form of General Security. |  | 12 |
| 5683116721 | The Lend Lease Act 1941 | Arsenal of Democracy The United States started helping the Allies with military goods. Roosevelt was able to convince Congress to do this Saw the war as Democracy vs. Dictators |  | 13 |
| 5683116723 | Oil Embargo against Japan | America had the largest oil companies and Japan was the largest buyer. They cut Japan off from buying oil because they were threatening the Philipenes and Guam, both American territories | 14 | |
| 5683116724 | Operation Barbarossa | June 1941 Hitler's biggest mistake Desires taking over Russia, but it was a huge fail due to their policy of Scortched Earth |  | 15 |
| 5683116727 | Battle of Stalingrad | Most important battle of the war: Major turning point in Europe The Germans want a Russian city for important waterways. The Russians start to surround the city and cut off German supplies and basically recaptured the city. Hitler tells them to never retreat, so he looses a lot of men. |  | 16 |
| 5683116728 | The North African Campaign | Early on, the Germans gain many territories in Africa, but the Americans and Africans help regain influence in Africa |  | 17 |
| 5683116729 | General Erwin Rommel | The Desert Fox Germany's famous and successful tank commander |  | 18 |
| 5683116730 | General Bernard "Monty" Montgomery | Britain's famous and successful tank commander |  | 19 |
| 5683116731 | The African and Italian Campaign: Operation Tourch | Allies plan to assault on weakest Axis area: Italy's north Africa. George S. Patton leads American troops and traps the Germans in Tunisia: Surrender 275,000 troops Hitler is embarrassed because Mussolini was captured and put in jail | 20 | |
| 5683116732 | Casablanca Conference 1943 | Roosevelt and Churchill declared a policy of unconditional surrender. Basically when all enemies surrendered, they couldn't ask for ANYTHING! Way of allies saying they are going to win and bring Hitler to justice. |  | 21 |
| 5683116733 | Moscow Conference 1943 | The Untied States obtained Soviet agreement to enter war against Japan after Germany was defeated. | 22 | |
| 5683116734 | Tehran Conference 1943 | Big Three Meet Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill agree to invade Western Europe in 1944 Stalin wants Russian control of Eastern Europe after the war Churchill wants to free nations in Eastern Europe and to create a strong Germany Roosevelt was the mediator between Stalin and Churchill |  | 23 |
| 5683116735 | D-Day | Invasion of Normandy German Atlantic Wall, where Germany controls France Create a fake message and armies around deceiving Germany. The Germans don't know where the Allies are going to attack Axis must spread out their defenses (disadvantage) Largest sea and land invasion ever!! Successful for the Allies Many deaths |  | 24 |
| 5683116737 | Battle of the Bulge | Last major attempt or offense by Germany Failed |  | 25 |
| 5683116738 | Yalta Conference: February 1945 | Big 3 meet 1 last time United States: Quick Soviet entry into Pacific War, weak Germany and a United Nations Britain: Churchill wants a strong Germany as a buffer against the USSR USSR: Stalin wants spheres of influence in Asia and Eastern Europe |  | 26 |
| 5683116740 | Island Hopping | Japan virtually controlled all of southeast Asia Basically the United States wanted to free all of the land Japan controlled and push them back to Asia Free air forces from Japanese control so that they could bomb Japan |  | 27 |
| 5683116741 | Battle of Midway Island: June 4-6 1942 | Considered the turning point of the war Start pushing Japan back to Asia | 28 | |
| 5683116742 | Potsdam Conference: July 1945 | Attlee, Truman, and Stalin meet Agreed that Germany would be divided into 4 occupation zones Russia, Britain, France, and America and would assist Germany in rebuilding and de-Nazifying Germany |  | 29 |
| 5683116743 | Clement Atlee | New leader of Britain Prime minister |  | 30 |
| 5683116744 | Hiroshima and Nagasaki | August 6 and 9, 1945 Powerful, killing weapon tested in New Mexico Obliterated everything in civilian areas |  | 31 |
| 5683116746 | 40-50 million died | How many were left dead at the end of the war? | 32 | |
| 5683116747 | Russia and the United States | 2 superpowers | 33 | |
| 5683116751 | Wannsee Conference | The official coordination of creating extermination camps, but never use the word extermination; instead they use the word evacuation |  | 34 |
| 5683116753 | Death Camp | Auschwitz |  | 35 |
| 5683116759 | 6 million | Jews killed in the Holocaust killed |  | 36 |
| 5683116760 | Numberg War Trials | Nazi officials were tried by Allies following the war for crimes against war and humanity |  | 37 |
