World War II
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328335834 | Third Reich | German empire/government under Adolf Hitler | |
328335835 | Benito Mussolini | Dictator of Italy | |
328335836 | Erwin Rommel | German leader defeated at El Alamein | |
328335837 | September 1,1939 | German invades Poland | |
328335838 | Manchuria | Northern province of China where Japan began its aggression | |
328335839 | Blitzkrieg | Attack with speed and surprise causing death and destruction | |
328335840 | Appeasement | Giving in to keep the peace | |
328335841 | Battle of Midway | Worst naval defeat for Japan in W W II; turned them from offense to defense | |
328335842 | English Channel | Body of water separating England and France | |
328335843 | Paul Tibbetts | Pilot of Enola Gay | |
328335844 | Final Solution | Hitler's plan to destroy entire population of Jews in Europe | |
328335845 | D-Day | Landing of Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France | |
328335846 | Kamikaze | Suicide mission | |
328335847 | Hiroshima | Japanese city where 1st atomic bomb was dropped August 6, 1945 | |
328335848 | Stalingrad & Moscow | Major German losses by the Russians | |
328335849 | Baby Boom | Sudden rise in birth rate after World War II | |
328675547 | 5 Normandy beaches | Omaha, Utah, Gold Juneau, Sword | |
328675548 | December 7, 1941 | Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor | |
328675549 | Battle of Guadalcanal | After this victory in the Pacific, the U.S. started island hopping | |
328675550 | Pearl Harbor | Main U.S. naval base in the Pacific | |
328675551 | Franklin Roosevelt | Elected president of the United States 4 consecutive times | |
328675552 | Rosie the Riveter | Fictitious character representing working women during World War II | |
328675553 | August 14, 1945 | Japan surrenders | |
328675554 | Josef Stalin | Dictator of Russia | |
328675555 | Harry Truman | FDR's Vice-president Made the decision to drop the atomic bomb | |
328675556 | Winston Churchill | Great Britain's Prime Minister during World War II | |
328675557 | Dwight D.Eisenhower | Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces | |
328675558 | June 6, 1944 | D- Day | |
328675559 | Nagasaki | 2nd atomic bomb dropped on this city August 9, 1945 | |
328675560 | Hidecki Tojo | General who approved plan to attack Pearl Harbor | |
328675561 | Adolf Hitler | Authorof "Mein Kampf" | |
328675562 | Fuhrer | German word for leader | |
328675563 | United States,China,GreatBritain, Russia, France | 5 main Allied powers | |
328675564 | Japan, Italy, Germany | 3 main Axis powers | |
328675565 | Homosexuals, handicapped, Poles, Soviets, gypsies | Others considered "undesirable" by Hitler | |
328675566 | Rhineland, Austria, Sudentenland, Czechoslovakia | Areas taken by Germany without reaction from Great Britain or France | |
328675567 | September 3, 1939 | Great Britain and France declare war on Germany because they refused to withdraw their troops from Poland | |
328675568 | "Mein Kampf" | "My Struggle" | |
328675569 | Rationing | Putting a limit on anything | |
328675570 | Manhattan Project | Top secret work on the atomic bomb | |
328675571 | Climb Mount Nitaka | Code for attack Pearl Harbor | |
328675572 | Enola Gay | Name of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima | |
328675573 | Gestapo | Hitler's Secret Polic | |
328675574 | New Order | Hitler's plans for Germany | |
328675575 | Island hopping | U.S.military strategy which captured certain islands to use for military bases moving closer to Japan in case an invasion was needed to end the war |