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| 152757179 | Blitzkrieg Warfare | Lightening War - a form of warfare in which surprise attacks with fast-moving airplanes are followed by massive attacks with infantry forces. | 0 | |
| 152757180 | Lebenstaum | TERRITORY EXPANSION | 1 | |
| 152757181 | Truman Doctrine | First established in 1947 after Britain no longer could afford to provide anti-communist aid to Greece and Turkey, it pledged to provide U.S. military and economic aid to any nation threatened by communism. | 2 | |
| 152757182 | Munich Conference | 1938 conference at which European leaders attempted to appease Hitler by turning over the Sudetenland to him in exchange for promise that Germany would not expand Germany's territory any further. | 3 | |
| 152757183 | NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries | 4 | |
| 152757184 | D-Day | Planned June 5th June 6 1944 Germans occupied Normandy France Germans though it would occur at Calais and goal was to liberate Paris | 5 | |
| 152757185 | Potsdam Conference | The final wartime meeting of the leaders of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union was held at Potsdamn, outside Berlin, in July, 1945. Truman, Churchill, and Stalin discussed the future of Europe but their failure to reach meaningful agreements soon led to the onset of the Cold War. | 6 | |
| 152757186 | Anschluss | The union of Austria with Germany, resulting from the occupation of Austria by the German army in 1938. | 7 | |
| 152757187 | Operation Barbarossa | codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. | 8 | |
| 152757188 | The Final Solution | The Nazi cover-up name for the plan to annihilate all of the Jews | 9 | |
| 152757189 | United Nations | an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security | 10 | |
| 152757190 | The Blitz | Sustained bombing of Britain by Nazi Germany between 1940 and 1941 | 11 | |
| 152757191 | Tripartite Pact | Signed between the Axis powers in 1940 (Italy, Germany and Japan) where they pledged to help the others in the event of an attack by the US | 12 | |
| 152757192 | Pearl Harbor | United States military base on Hawaii that was bombed by Japan, bringing the United States into World War II. Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941. | 13 | |
| 152757193 | Rape of Nanking | infamous genocidal war crime committed by japanese military in Nanjing. started in 1937 and lasted a few weeks. japanese army raped, stole and killed prisoners of war and civilians | 14 | |
| 152757194 | 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. | 15 | |
| 152757195 | Yalta Conference | FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Yalta. Russia agreed to declare war on Japan after the surrender of Germany and in return FDR and Churchill promised the USSR concession in Manchuria and the territories that it had lost in the Russo-Japanese War | 16 | |
| 152757196 | Lend-Lease Act | Approve by Congress in March 1941; The act allowed America to sell, lend or lease arms or other supplies to nations considered "vital to the defense of the United States." | 17 | |
| 152757197 | Marshall Plan | Introduced by Secretary of State George G. Marshall in 1947, he proposed massive and systematic American economic aid to Europe to revitalize the European economies after WWII and help prevent the spread of Communism. | 18 | |
| 152757198 | 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. | 19 |
