World War II
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| Allies | show 🗑
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| show | World War II military alliance of Germany, Italy, Japan, and six other countries
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| Battle of Midway | show 🗑
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| show | Germany's use of the blitzkrieg on this country led to the start of World War II.
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| show | "lightning war " German military tactic for quick victory by use of massed airplanes, tanks and mobile infrantry.
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| Phony War | show 🗑
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| Dunkirk | show 🗑
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| show | Germany's failed attempt to subdue Britain in 1940 in preparation for an invasion (Operation Sealion). This was the first battle fought entirely in the air and the first time that Hitler suffered a military setback.
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| show | The codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II.
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| show | The suprise attack by Japan on U.S naval base in Hawaii, December 7, 1941. This brought the United States into World War II.
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| D-Day | show 🗑
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| Battle of Stalingrad | show 🗑
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| El Alamein | show 🗑
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| show | On August 6, 1945 the nuclear weapon Little Boy was dropped by Americans, killing an estimated 80,000 people and heavily damaging 80% of the city. The first use of atomic weapons in history.
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| Nagasaki | show 🗑
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| show | Germany's systematic elimination of Europe's Jews during World War II. Over 6 million Jews were killed.
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| Adolf Hitler | show 🗑
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| Invasion of Norway | show 🗑
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| Fall of France, 1940 | show 🗑
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| show | Was thought of as a satellite state or "puppet state" of Germany after the fall of France in 1940.
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| show | A World War II Nazi Germany plan to invade the United Kingdom, beginning in 1940. It never actually happened because Germany lost the Battle of Britain.
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| Luftwaffe | show 🗑
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| The Blitz | show 🗑
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| show | He was the commander of the Afrika Korps. His nickname was The Desert Fox because of the skillful military campaigns he waged for Germany in North Africa. He was later in command of the German forces opposing the Allies in the invasion of Normandy.
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| Winston Churchill | show 🗑
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| Battle of the Atlantic | show 🗑
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| show | One of the turning point battles of World War II. A German defeat by Soviets. Afterward Germany was totally on the defensive. The largest tank battle in history.
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| show | Allied invasion of northwestern Africa. Improved naval control of the Mediterranean, and prepared an invasion of Southern Europe 1943.
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| Operation Husky | show 🗑
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| Siege of Leningrad | show 🗑
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| Battle of the Coral Sea | show 🗑
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| Battle for Leyte Gulf | show 🗑
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| show | The largest of Nazi Germany's concentration camps and extermination camps. This camp was a major element in the perpetration of the Holocaust; at least 1.1 million people were killed there, and 90% of them were Jews.
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| show | The 'big three' (Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt) met to decide how to divide up Europe after the defeat of Germany.
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| Harry Truman | show 🗑
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| show | The Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the U.S represented by Joseph Stalin, Prime Minister Clement Attlee, and President Harry S. Truman. They tried to decide what to do with a defeated Germany but couldn’t come to an agreement.
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