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blitzkrieg
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"lightning war" and the Germans used this when they attacked Poland and this happened on September 1, 1939.
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Baltic
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Stalin forced this group of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia to accept Soviet military bases.
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Finland
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Stalin tried to force this group too but war but war broke out between the two nations. March 1940, Finland finally surrendered to Soviets
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Maginot Line
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a string of steel-and-concrete bunkers along the German border from Belgium to Switzerland.
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Denmark and Norway
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In April Hitler attacked these two places.
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Netherlands and Belgium
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The following month after Hitler attacked Denmark and Norway he attacked these places.
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Dunkirk
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*allied troops retreated here after the collapse of Belgium.
*800 British ships evacuated 300,000 trapped soldiers to safety |
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English Channel
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A waterway in the western corner of France.
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Axis Powers
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It was when Italy, Germany, and later Japan formed this alliance.
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Winston Churchill
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Was Prime Minister and responded defiantly when Hitler told them to surrender.
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Battle of Britain
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Was when Hitler had a goal to break the British morale before invading Britain and started in August 1940 and ended in October when the RAF mounted a heroic defense and inflicted heavy losses on German air force.
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America First Committee
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*This is when the Isolationists banded together to form this and its members thought the U.S should keep out of Europe's business.
*Charles Lingbergh & Henry Ford |
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Lend-Lease Act
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Was allowed in March 1941 and this Act allowed America to lend, sell, or lease arms or other war supplies to any nation considered "vital to the defense of the US."
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Atlantic Charter
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*In August 1941, President Roosevelt and British prime minister Churchill met and drew this up.
*set goals for after the Nazi tyranny and pledged that every nation would be free to choose their own form of government. |
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disarmament
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giving up military weapons and the creation of a "permanent system of general security"
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Indochina
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After the fall of France in 1940, the Japanese seized this french colony in east Asia.
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Hideki Tojo
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*the new prime minister.
*didn't agree with former prime minister who wanted to negotiate with America because he felt they couldn't beat them. |
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Pearl Harbor
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At 7:55 am on Sunday Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese warplanes attacked this American military base,
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