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| 1328557933 | phony war | The Phoney War was a phase early in World War II that was marked by a lack of major military operations by the Western Allies against the German Reich. | 1 | |
| 1328557934 | miracle at dunkirk | The Dunkirk evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo, also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940 | 2 | |
| 1328557935 | blitzkrieg | an intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory. | 3 | |
| 1328557936 | german soviet non-aggression pact | The most famous non-aggression pact is the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, which lasted until the 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. | 4 | |
| 1328557937 | operation barbarossa | Operation Barbarossa (German: Fall Barbarossa, literally "Case Barbarossa"), beginning 22 June 1941, was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II | 5 | |
| 1328557938 | scorched earth policy | a military strategy of burning or destroying buildings, crops, or other resources that might be of use to an invading enemy force. | 6 | |
| 1328557939 | benito mussolini | Mussolini: Italian fascist dictator (1883-1945) | 7 | |
| 1328557940 | adolf hitler | Hitler: German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945 | 8 | |
| 1328557941 | hideki tojo | Hideki Tōjō was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army, the leader of the Taisei Yokusankai, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II, from October 17, 1941 to July 22, 1944 | 9 | |
| 1328557942 | emperor hirohito | Hirohito, posthumously referred to as Emperor Shōwa in Japan, was the 124th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order, reigning from December 25, 1926, until his death in 1989 | 10 | |
| 1328557943 | frankin d. roosevelt | Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known by his initials, FDR, 32nd President of the United States, served for 12 years and four terms until his death in 1945, the only president ever to do so, and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a | 11 | |
| 1328557944 | harry s. truman | Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States. The final running mate of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944, Truman succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when Roosevelt died after months of declining health. Under Truman, the U.S. | 12 | |
| 1328557945 | neville chamberlain | Chamberlain: British statesman who as Prime Minister pursued a policy of appeasement toward fascist Germany (1869-1940) | 13 | |
| 1328557946 | winston churchill | Churchill: British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953 (1874-1965 | 14 | |
| 1328557947 | josef stalin | Joseph Stalin or Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin was the de facto leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. | 15 | |
| 1328557948 | lend lease act | lend lease act. lend-lease. the matériel and services supplied by the U.S. to its allies during World War II under an act of Congress (Lend-Lease Act) passed in 1941: such aid was to be repaid in kind after the war. the two-way transfer of ideas, styles, etc | 16 | |
| 1328557949 | atlantic charter | The Atlantic Charter was a pivotal policy statement issued in August 14,1941 that, early in World War II, defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. It was drafted by the leaders of Britain and the United States, and later agreed to by all the Allies. | 17 | |
| 1328557950 | meeting at yalta | Yalta Conference. Yalta Conference in February 1945 with (from left to right) Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin | 18 | |
| 1328557951 | meeting at potsdam | Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman meeting at the Potsdam Conference on 18 July 1945. From left to right, first row: Premier Joseph Stalin; President Harry S. Truman, Soviet Ambassador to the United States Andrei Gromyko, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov | 19 | |
| 1328557952 | manhattan project | The Manhattan Project was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. | 20 | |
| 1328557953 | robert openheimer | Definition of J Robert Oppenheimer from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. J Robert Oppenheimer. (Julius Robert Oppenheimer 1904-67) the scientist in charge of the US Manhattan Project (1942-5) which built the first atom bomb. After World War II, Oppenheimer directed the Institute for Advanced Study. | 21 | |
| 1328557954 | atomic bombs | a bomb that derives its destructive power from the rapid release of nuclear energy by fission of heavy atomic nuclei, causing damage through heat, blast, and radioactivity | 22 | |
| 1328557955 | kamakaze | (in World War II) a Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target. | 23 | |
| 1328557956 | island hopping | travel from one island to another, esp. as a tourist in an area of small islands | 24 | |
| 1328557957 | pearl harbor | a harbor on Oahu to the west of Honolulu; location of a United States naval base that was attacked by the Japanese on 7 Dec 194 | 25 | |
| 1328557958 | unconditional surrender | An unconditional surrender is a surrender in which no guarantees are given to the surrendering party | 26 | |
| 1328557959 | final solution | the Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews. Introduced by Heinrich Himmler and administered by Adolf Eichmann, the policy resulted in the murder of 6 million Jews in concentration camps between 1941 and 1945 | 27 | |
| 1328557960 | nuremberg laws | The Nuremberg Laws were the first attempt by the Nazi government to define the Jews and as such, play a pivotal role in the process that lead to their annihilation. The Nuremberg Laws were adopted by the Reichstag at the Nazi Party Day of September 15, 1935 | 28 | |
| 1328557961 | kristal nacht | Kristallnacht (German pronunciation: [kʁɪsˈtalnaχt]; English: "Crystal Night"), also referred to as the Night of Broken Glass, or Reichskristallnacht [ˌʁaɪçs.kʁɪsˈtalnaχt], Pogromnacht [poˈɡʁoːmnaχt] ( listen), and November pogrome [noˈvɛmbɐpoɡʁoːmə] ( listen), was a pogrom (a series ... | 29 | |
| 1328557962 | extermination camps | Extermination camps (or death camps) were camps during World War II (1939-45) built primarily but not exclusively by Nazi Germany to systematically kill millions of people by execution (primarily by gassing) and extreme work under starvation conditions | 30 |
