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Sudetenland |
in 1938, Hitler demanded, and was given, what area in Northwestern Czechoslovakia |
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Poland |
Two days after Hitler invaded this country Britain and France declared war on Germany |
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Blitzkrieg |
a form of attack that used tank divisions supported by air attacks |
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December 7, 1941 |
Japanese launched a surprise attack on the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor |
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Battle of Midway Island |
was the turning point of the war in the Pacific |
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Appeasement |
Great Britain's policy of what toward Germany was based on the belief that the satisfaction of reasonable demands would maintain peace in France |
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"Peace for our time" |
Neville Chamberlain boasted that the Munich Conference meant |
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Battle of Dunkirk |
at this battle heroic efforts by the British Royal Navy and civilians in private boats managed to evacuate 338,000 allied troops |
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The battle of Stalingrad was a crushing defeat for Germany because |
the entire Sixth Army, considered the best of the German troops, was lost |
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Einsatzgruppen |
were special strike forces charged with the task of rounding up and killing the Jews |
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In order to address labor shortages during the war Japan did what |
brought in Korean and Chinese laborers |
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Vichy France |
occupied France, governed by authoritarian regime under German control |
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Axis Power |
Germany, Italy, Japan |
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Holocaust |
the slaughter of European civilians, particularly European Jews, by the Nazis |
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Blitz |
British term for the German air raids |
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Luftwaffe |
German airforce |
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Anti-Comintern Pact |
treaty between Germany and Japan promising a common front against communism |
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Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact |
gave Hitler the freedom to attack Poland |
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Isolationism |
policy that initially kept the United States from becoming involved in the war against Germany |
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Allied Powers |
Great Britain, United States, Soviet Union |
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Normandy |
history's greatest naval invasion |
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Final Solution |
Nazi plan for the extermination of the Jews |
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Kamikaze |
Japanese pilots who flew suicide missions against U.S warships |
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Blitzkrieg |
"lightning war" that utilized tanks supported by airplanes |
