| A | B |
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| Battle of Dunkirk | Allies failed attempt to save France from falling into the hands of the Axis |
| Operation Sea Lion | Hitler's Plan to invade Britain by sea |
| "London can take it" | Churchills famous words which reflect his successful attempt to divert Nazi air raids to London and away from factories |
| the Blitz | bombing of London by Luftawffe |
| Lend-lease Act | US policy of allowing allied nations to borrow equipment and pay after the war |
| USS Reuben James | US ship sunk by German U boat |
| enigma code book | German code book intercepted by the British and successfully kept a secret for the duratio nof the war |
| Operation Barbarossa | Nazi's plan to invade Russia |
| Stalin | Communist leader of Russia |
| Japan | invades China during WWII |
| Battle of Stalingrad | Germans fight more for the victory of the name than strategic importance |
| D-Day | Day for the invasionof Normandy |
| Dwight Eisenhower | American General who led the invasionof Normandy |
| Omaha Beach | Beach at Normandy where the fighting was most fierce |
| Pas de Calle | Allies tried to misdirect Germans to believe that the invasion of France was going to happen here |
| Theatre of War | major area of land, sea and air that is directly involved in war |
| Battle of the Bulge | Germans's last great offensive to hold the line against allies advancing to liberate Paris |
| Wolfpack | group of u-boats that "hunt" together at night to sink Allied merchant ships |
| Total War | idea that all options should be used to fight a war no matter what cost to the civilians or non combatants |
| Winston Churchil | Prime Minster of Great Britain during World War II |
| V- Day | Dy that Germany Surrendered: May 8, 1945 |
