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A ten-year pact between Hitler and Stalin
In addition to agreeing not to fight, they agreed to divide Poland and to give USSR much of Eastern Europe. |
Nonaggression Pact
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Germany’s strategy of “lightening war”
It used fast-moving tanks and airplanes followed by massive infantry. |
Blitzkrieg
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A defensive line built by the French after WWI in order to defend against German attack.
The Germans went around it and it failed. |
Maginot Line
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The leader of France’s government-in-exile located in London.
He was the leader of the very effective French resistance. |
Charles de Gaulle
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Became prime minister of Britain in 1940.
He was a highly effective leader for Britain when all other nations had been defeated by the Nazis. |
Winston Churchill
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