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| 334998446 | Winston Churchill | British General; knew war was inevitable given Hitler's insatiable ambitions | 0 | |
| 334998447 | BlitzKreig | "lightning warfare" rapid penetration of enemy territory by a combination of tanks and troops | 1 | |
| 334998448 | Vichy | city in charge of southern France when Hitler invaded and took the northern part of France | 2 | |
| 334998449 | Holocust | name for Hitler's genocide of European Jews During WWII killing 6 million jews | 3 | |
| 334998450 | Battle of the Bulge | Allied forces invaded Germany from the west while the Red armies invaded from the East; American and Russian troops linked at the Elbe River leading to the suicide of Adolf Hitler | 4 | |
| 334998451 | Pearl Harbor | Japanese sneak attack on an American naval harbor in Hawaii | 5 | |
| 334998452 | Battle of Coral SEa | Japanese and American naval and air force standoff leading to the battle of Midway which the Americans decisively defeated the Japanese forces | 6 |