| A | B |
|---|
| September 1, 1939 | German invasion of Poland |
| August 23, 1939 | Non-Aggression Pact |
| Anchluss | Union |
| Lebensraum | Living Space |
| Kristallnacht | Night of Broken Glass-November9-10, 1938 |
| Final Solution | Nazi plan to exterminate Jews of Europe |
| Munich Pact of 1938 | Britain, France, Germany, and Italy meet to solve problems |
| Rhineland | Demilitarized zone in Germany after WWI |
| Luftwaffe | German airforce |
| Blitzkrieg | Lightning War |
| April 9, 1940 | German invasion of Norway and Denmark |
| May 10, 1940 | German invasion of Belgium and France |
| Maginot Line | French fixed forifications that were flanked by the Germans |
| Operation Sealion | Proposed plan for invasion of Britain |
| August-October 1940 | Battle of Britain |
| Phony War | Time period when no fighting occured between combative nations |
| Dunkirk | British evacuation of allied armies from mainland France |
| The Blitz | Bombing of London |
| June 22, 1941 | German invasion of Russia |
| Sudetenland | Disputed area in Czechoslovakia |
| March 13, 1938 | German annexation of Austria |
| Anti-Commintern Pact | German anti-communist pact with Japan |
| R.A.F. | British Royal Airforce |
| Leningrad | Besieged Russian city which was never taken by the Germans |
| Stalingrad | Major defeat for the German 6th Army |
| Adolf Hitler | German dictator |
| Joseph Stalin | Russian dictator |
| Benito Mussolini | Italian dictator |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | American president |
| Winston Churchill | British Prime Minister |
| Harry Truman | American president after FDR |
| July 5-12, 1943 | Battle of Kursk |
| 1940-1943 | North African campaign |
| 1943-1945 | Italian campaign |
| Afrika Korps | German desert force in North Africa |
| Erwin Rommel | Commander of Afrika Korps |
| Bernard Montgomery | Most successful British Field Marshal |
| George Patton | Scandelous American general during WWII |
| El Alamein | Defeat of Afrika Korps by British |
| June 6, 1944 | Allied invasion of mainland France |
| Omaha & Utah | American landing beaches |
| Gold, Juno, Sword | British and Canadian landing beaches |
| Operation Overlord | Code name given to D-Day landings |
| Normandy | Place where D-Day landings took place |
| December 16-26, 1944 | Battle of the Bulge |
| September 1931 | Japanese invade Manchuria |
| 1937 | Japanese move into mainland China |
| Dutch East Indies, India, Burma, & Malaya | Key areas where Japanese seek natural resources |
| Decamber 7, 1941 | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
| December 8, 1941 | US declares war on Japan |
| May 1942 | Coral Sea-Japanese prevented from invading Australia |
| June 1942 | Midway- Japanese soundly defeated by smaller US force |
| Guadalcanal | 1st American amphibious landing against Japan |
| Leyte Gulf | 1st use of Kamikaze planes |
| Douglas MacArthur | American general who reconquered the Philippines |
| Manhattan Project | Research and development of Atomic bomb |
| July 16, 1945 | Successful A-Bomb test |
| August 6, 1945 | A-Bomb dropped on Hiroshima |
| August 9, 1945 | A-Bomb dropped on Nagasaki |
| September 2, 1945 | Official Japanese surrender abord USS Missouri |
| Lend-Lease | American program to help supply allied armies |
| U-Boats | German Submarines |
| Battle of the Atlantic | German attempt to stop supplies from reaching Britain and Russia |
| Potsdam Treaty | How to deal with Japan and restore post war Europe |
| Concentration Camps | Places where final solution was carried out |
| S.S. | German secret police/terror squads |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, Japan |
| Hirohito | Emperor of Japan |
| Tojo | Militaristic Japanese Prime Minister |
| Yammamoto | Planed attack on Pearl Harbor |
| Radar | Technological advance which helped Britain win the Battle of Britain |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | Scientist in charge of A-Bomb project |
| Dunkirk | Allied soldiers evacuated from here |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Supreme Allied commander in Europe |
| Kursk | Largest tank battle of the war; Germans lose & are on the defensive the rest of the war |
| Italy & Sicily | Open second front in Europe |
| Desert Fox | Name given to Erwin Rommell |
| Iwo Jima | Bloodiest battle for US Marines |
| Okinawa | Battle on Japanese home island |
