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World War II, 1939-1945

The largest war in the history of the world...what do you know about it?

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Winston ChurchillPM of England during the war
BlitzkriegGerman for "lightening war"
Battle of BritianAll air battle- RAF vs. Luftwaffe
HolocaustDestruction of Jews and minorities in concentration camps
Final SolutionGerman term for Destruction of Jews and minorities in concentration camps
DunkirkBritish army evacuated here
Phoney WarOctober 1939-April 1940
December 7, 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
June 6, 1944Invasion of Normandy, France, D-Day
PattonFamous US tank commander
EisenhowerIn charge of D-Day
RommelGerman General; Desert Fox
MidwayTurning Point in the Pacific
El AlameinTurning Point in Africa
StalingradTurning Point in Russia
Spitfire/HurricaneBritish fighters that saved England during the battle of Britian
B-17 Flying FortressAmerican heavy bomber
StukaInfamous German dive bomber
Hiroshima/Nagasaki2 Japanese cities destroyed by the atomic bomb
Iwo Jima/OkinawaFierce Island battles in the Pacific
Auschwitz/ Treblinka/ BuchenwaldNotorious Concentration Camps
Dr. MengeleConcentration camp DR
Island-HoppingStrategy in the Pacific- take some island, leave others
Manhatten ProjectCode Name- Atomic Bomb Project
MontgomeryFamous British General
Omaha/UtahAmerican beaches: D-Day
Gold/SwordBritish beaches: D-Day
JunoCanadian beach: D-Day
Battle of the BulgeHitler's last attempt to stop the U.S.
August 6/9, 1945Dropping of the atomic bombs-Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Operation OverlordCode name for D-Day
KamikazeJapanese suicide planes
Tehran Conference2nd front agreed to
Yalta ConferenceGerman occupation zones; United Nations
Postdam ConferenceDiscussed war criminals, reparations



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