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| Became President upon the death of President FDR | Harry Truman |
| US Naval General that lead the Pacific war efforts and accepted Japan's surrender | General Douglas MacArthur |
| Allied Countries | Britain, France, United States |
| Axis Countries | Germany, Italy, Japan |
| Name of Operation when Germany attacked the Soviet Union | Operation Barbaossa |
| Most important battle in the Pacific that was a critical win for the US and crippled the Japanese Navy | Battle of Midway |
| Location for the United States to battle test it's ground troops | North Africa |
| The battle that stopped Germany's advance into the Soviet Union and ended Germany's last major advances in the war | Battle of Stalingrad |
| This was the first advance by American troops into Northern France and would be the start to breaking Germany's hold on Europe | D-Day/ Normandy, France |
| What we call May 8th, 1945 the day that Admiral Donitz, Hitler's successor when he signed Germany's surrender | V.E. Day/ Victory in Europe |
| Cities (in order) where the A-Bomb and Hydrogen Bomb's were dropped in Japan | Hiroshima, Nagasaki |
| Japanese city that was fire bombed due to the amount of wooden structures | Tokyo |
| Name given to the new U-Boat strategies where they were lining up multiple U-Boats in an effort to attack larger numbers of ships | Wolfpack |
| A joint effort between the US and Britain to share intelligence and technologies to defeat Germany by shipping a box full of materials from Britain to the US and included information on the A-Bomb | Tizard Mission |
| The importance of the Battle of Britain | High number of losses to the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) that causes Hitler to turn his attention to the Soviet Union |
| Leader in the Soviet Union during WWII | Joseph Stalin |
| The fighter airplane that was built to fly further and be able to support the bombers so that they could fly further into Europe to attack oil reserves of the Germans | P-51 Mustangs |
| Russian oil fields that Hitler wanted to capture | Caucuses |
| Two main reasons why Hitler wanted to attack Russia | Communism/Judaism |
| Main reason Hitler wanted to attack and capture Stalingrad | Embarrass Stalin |
| Reasons for Germany's defeat in the Soviet Union | Cut-off from supplies/ Trapped in the Soviet winter with no supplies |
| The loss of this battle against the Soviets was Hitler's nightmare, and meant that Germany faced a war on two fronts | Battle of Kursk |
| Reason for Stalin to be upset with the other Allies | Took them so long to get involved |
| Operation Torch, a landing in North Africa, was a tune-up for the US for what? | Invasion of D-Day in Normandy, France |
| The loss at Kasserine Pass in North Africa was good for the Americans why? | The Americans gained experience/ better to lose there than in Europe/ |
| Major losses for Japan after the Battle of Midway occurred because of | The loss of aircraft carriers and war experienced pilots |
| This was the major determinate of who would win the war | Air superiority |
| The fire bombing of Tokyo, Japan was known as | "Night of the Black Snow" |
| "Ghost Divisions" created to deceive the Germans about where the Allies would land during D-Day | Operation Fortitude |
| 1,600 miles of German bunkers, land mines, and defenses against ships along the Northern shores of France | Atlantic Wall |
| The final large scale battle for Hitler/Germany | Battle of the Bulge |
| The two smaller islands that the US forces faced fierce fighting from the Japanese, leading to the decision to ultimately drop the bomb | Okinawa/Iwo Jima |
| This group of Americans were critical in defeating the Japanese because of the code breaking abilities and unique language | Native American Code Talkers |
| Was the General who had a great deal of success with his tank divisions across Europe | General George Patton |
| Auschwitz was Germany's largest and what? | Concentration & Extermination Camp |
