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14 Cards in this Set
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Anschluss |
German term for "joining"it was Nazi. Propaganda term for the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in March 1938 |
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Battle of Britain |
Known as the "Blitz" the series Aerial combat that took place between British and German aircraft during the autumn of 1940 that included the severe and varmint of British cities the German left Wharfie Air Force field to defeat Britain |
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Pearl Harbor |
Site of the US navy's main pacificbass that was attacked by Japanese |
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Operation torch |
US invasion of North Africa |
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Battle of midway |
Turning point of WW11 in the pacificThe Japanese advance was stopped |
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Operation overload |
US invasion of France and Germany - D-Day |
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D-Day |
June 6, 1944, the allies landed in the beaches of Normandy France |
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Battle of Bulge |
December of 1944, hurler ordered a counterattacki'm Allied troops in Belgium but it crippled Germany by using up reserves and demoralizing its troops |
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V-E Day |
Allied victory in Europe |
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V-J Day |
The day ( august 15) in 1945A day in which Japan ceased fighting in World War II or the day Japan formally surrendered |
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Holocaust |
Name used to describe the systematic murder of the Jews by h nazis |
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Potsdam conference / declaration |
Meeting between Truman, Churchill /Attle and Stalin in which they agreed to divide Germany into four zones of occupation and create new borders and free elections for Poland |
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Yalta conference |
Meeting between Roosevelt ,Churchill and Stalinconcerning postwar Germany eastern Europe and Asia |
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Nuremberg trails |
Trials in witch nazi leaders were charged with war crimes |
