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| 1513276249 | Rome-Berlin Axis | an alliance between Hitler and Mussolini | 1 | |
| 1513276250 | appeasement | policy used by Chamberlain when he accepted Hitlers demands for territory | 2 | |
| 1513276251 | Neville Chamberlain | British prime minister who believed he could avoid war if he gave into Hitler's demands | 3 | |
| 1513276252 | Franklin Roosevelt | president during World War1 | 4 | |
| 1513276253 | blitzkrieg | German war strategy aimed at taking the enemy by surpise | 5 | |
| 1513276254 | sitzkrieg | dubbed the "phony war" when things were quiet on the western front | 6 | |
| 1513276255 | luftwaffe | German air force | 7 | |
| 1513276256 | dunkirk | french seaport where a heroic rescue of Allied armies took place | 8 | |
| 1513276257 | maginot line | 200 mile of fortifications built along France's border with germany | 9 | |
| 1513276258 | battle of britain | German planes outnumbered the British planes but the Germans never did gain air supremacy | 10 | |
| 1513276259 | blitz | night bombings of London for 57 consecutive nights | 11 | |
| 1513276260 | Atlantic Charter | joint declaration by Roosevelt and Churchill which called for the "final destruction of Nazi tyranny" | 12 | |
| 1513276261 | Charles de Gaulle | french tank commander who organized a French resistance movement after the fall of France to Germany | 13 | |
| 1513276262 | Winston Chruchill | British prime minister who warned of the Nazi danger | 14 | |
| 1513276263 | Erwin Rommel | German tank commander who had many victories in Africa | 15 | |
| 1513276264 | operation Barbarossa | code name for the massive attack on the Soviet Union by Germany | 16 | |
| 1513276265 | scorched earth policy | policy used by Stalin to destroy everything that could be used by the German invaders | 17 | |
| 1513276266 | Holocaust | mass destruction of 6 million Jewish people | 18 | |
| 1513276267 | Final Solution | Nazi code word for the destruction of all jews | 19 | |
| 1513276268 | ghetto | designated area of the city with poor living conditions | 20 | |
| 1513276269 | German SS | special units of Nazi who captured and killed jews | 21 | |
| 1513276270 | genocide | deliberate planned killing of an entire group of people based on race, politics, or culture | 22 | |
| 1513276271 | Tripartite pact | agreement with Japan, Germany,Italy | 23 | |
| 1513276272 | Pearl Harbor | first Japanese attack on the U.S. | 24 | |
| 1513276273 | battle of Midway | ended Japanese naval superiority in the Paciftic | 25 | |
| 1513276274 | guadalcanal | first in the series of island battles the Americans fought as they made their way north of japan | 26 | |
| 1513276275 | Kamikaze | Japanese suicide bombers | 27 | |
| 1513276276 | operation Overload | plan to land Allied troops in France | 28 | |
| 1513276277 | D-Day | refers to the Allied landing in France on June 6,1944 | 29 | |
| 1513276278 | Bernard Montgomery | British general who fought in Africa against Germany | 30 | |
| 1513276279 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Allied Commander who assembled troops for Operation Overload | 31 | |
| 1513276280 | Douglas MacArthur | American general who fought in the Pacific against Japan | 32 | |
| 1513276281 | Axis powers | included Germany, Italy, Japan | 33 | |
| 1513276282 | Soviet Union | Hitler attacks after failing to defeat Great Britain | 34 | |
| 1513276283 | Poland and Soviet Union | largest number of Jews lived in | 35 | |
| 1513276284 | U.S. was officially at war the day after | Japan attacked Pearl Harbor | 36 |
