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| 6374485808 | Blitzkrieg | "Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland in 1939 | 0 | |
| 6374489262 | Winston Churchhill | (1874-1965) Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II. His involvement in World War I was a prime lord of the British admiralty. He led an attack on the Turks which failed miserably at Constantinople with over 150,000 casualties. | 1 | |
| 6374495629 | Battle of Britain | An aerial battle fought in World War II in 1940 between the German Luftwaffe (air force), which carried out extensive bombing in Britain, and the British Royal Air Force, which offered successful resistance. | 2 | |
| 6374499175 | Tripartite Pact | Pact between Japan, Germany, and Italy signed in September 1940, by which each pledged to declare war on any nation that attacked any of them | 3 | |
| 6374502276 | Attack on Pearl Harbor | Bombing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii by Japan on December 7, 1941. The Japanese were hoping to cripple the American fleet, which had been enforcing Embargo, which denied Japan the raw materials it needed to increase their power and this attack failed leading to Japan's defeat. | 4 | |
| 6374507568 | D-Day | (FDR) , June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which "we will accept nothing less than full victory." More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day's end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy. | 5 | |
| 6374514971 | Battle of Stalingrad | Unsuccessful German attack on the city of Stalingrad during World War II from 1942 to 1943, that was the furthest extent of German advance into the Soviet Union. | 6 | |
| 6374523121 | Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki | Two atomic bombs were dropped on these cities on August 6, 1945 (Little Boy/Hiroshima), and August 9th, 1945 (Fat Man/Nagasaki), ended the war against Japan. They killed over 120,000 instantly. This was used by Truman because he wanted a quick way to end the war. | 7 | |
| 6374528322 | Holocaust | A methodical plan done by Hitler to ensure German supremacy. It called for the elimination of Jews, homosexuals, non-Aryans, and mentally and physically disabled, and gypsies. Antisemitism was present prior to holocaust - the holocaust was the most severe form of antisemitism | 8 | |
| 6374532703 | Marshall plan | A plan that the US came up with to revive war-torn economies of Europe. This plan offered $13 billion in aid to western and Southern Europe. | 9 |
