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| Third Reich | Hitler's government was called this |
| more land and more power | All three Axis powers wanted the same thing. It was what? |
| Austria | Hitler's first aggressive move |
| Luftwaffe | German airforce |
| Winston Churchill | British Prime Minister during WWII |
| Pact of Steel | When Japan joined Germany and Italy in mutual feelings of aggression, they became known as this. |
| The Axis powers | Germany, Italy, Japan |
| When Hitler invaded Poland | Britain and France declared war on Germany |
| France | was the first Allied nation to surrender to Hitler |
| Battle of Britain | first air war in history and the first German defeat in WWII |
| Erwin Rommel | German tank commander in North Africa. |
| Desert Fox | Rommel's nickname |
| collaborators | leaders of a country who betrayed their country and gave aid to Hitler |
| kamikaze | Japanese suicide planes. Zero planes with TNT in the nose. |
| three strong dictators that arose after WWI | Hitler-Germany, Mussolini-Italy, Tojo-Japan |
| Eisenhower | the General in charge of a surprise landing in North Africa. Three landings were made; Casablanca, Oran, and Algiers |
| Rome, Italy | first Axis capital to surrender |
| Operation Overlord | code name for the preparation for the invasion from Britain onto the shores of France. |
| D-day | the day of the invasion onto Hitler's "fortress Europe"; June 6, 1944 |
| Eisenhower | in charge of planning D-day |
| sonar | finally neutralized the u-boat threat |
| Battle of the Bulge | last German drive of the war |
| island hopping | The U.S. plan to hop, skip, and jump from one island to another working their way to Japan. |
| May 7, 1945 | Germany surrendered |
| May 8, 1945 | V-E day (victory in Europe) |
| Battle of the Coral Sea | The Japanese had to give up their plan to take Australia and New Guinea |
| Battle of Midway | The Japanese fleet was mauled so badly that they had to retreat. This put the U.S. navy on the offensive. |
| Douglas MacArthur | led U.S. troops in the Pacific |
| Battle of Leyte Gulf | was fought to retake the Philippines |
| Okinawa | by taking this island the Americans moved to within 350 miles of the Japanese mainland. |
| Harry Truman | became President after Roosevelt died |
| Potsdam Declaration | a document that warned Japan of immediate destruction if she did not surrender |
| England, France, Russia, U.S. | four of the Allied nations in WWII |
| Name four things the occupied people of Europe did to show they resisted the Germans | 1. wrecked trucks and blew up ammunition dumps. 2. put glass in oil and sugar in gasoline 3. made bullets and shells that wouuldn't explode 4. killed Nazi officers and soldiers |
| September 1, 1939 | Hitler invaded Poland |
| September 3, 1939 | Britain and France declared war on Germany |
| June 22, 1940 | France surrendered to Germany |
| December 7, 1941 | Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor |
| December 8, 1941 | The U.S. declared war on Japan |
| December 11, 1941 | Germany and Italy declared war on the U.S. |
| August 6, 1945 | atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima |
| August 9, 1945 | atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki |
| September 2, 1945 | Japan surrendered |
| What kind of revenge did Hitler order because of Reinhard Heydrich's death? | In the village of Lidice, every man (190) was machine gunned down. The 195 women were sent to concentration camps. The 82 children were scattered abroad and sent to re-educational camps. Every trace of Lidice was destroyed, and the ground was plowed flat. |
| Operation Mincemeat | Operation Mincemeat – the plan to fool Hitler on the landing point of the Allied armies as they came into Italy to work their way up to Germany. They took a dead body form a funeral home and dressed him up like a British Major. They gave him the name of William Martin. They put a coded message on him that said, “He might bring Sardines with him.” Hitler was sure this meant the Allies were coming from N. Africa through Sardinia. He moved troops to that location, but the Allied troops came in by way of the island of Sicily. The plan worked to perfection. Later a movie was made about this “man who never was.” |
| Omaha Beach | deadliest beach landing on D-day; nicknamed Bloody Omaha due to the number of deaths on D-day |
| 5 | the number of landings on D-day |
| Defenses the Germans put up on the beaches for D-day | log ramps with mines, log post with mines, Belgian gates, shingles, barbed wire, fire trenches, mines on the beaches, hedgehogs |
| Why did the United States feel that it was important to occupy Imo Jima? | The US had no protective fighters with enough range to escort the b-29's on raids over Japan. Many bombers fell prey to Japanese fighter-interceptor attacks. Iwo, with its three airfields, was ideally located as a fighter-escort station. It was also an ideal sanctuary for crippled bombers returning from Japan. |
| What was unusual about the fighting on Iwo Jima? | The Japanese fought underground in a series of rooms and tunnels they had built into the island. The Americans fought above ground. The American soldiers hardly ever saw a Japanese soldier. |
| What was the Japanese battle strategy for Iwo Jima? | 1. The Japanese didn't fight above ground. They fought the battle entirely from beneath the ground. They dug 1,500 rooms into the rock. These were connected with 16 miles of tunnels. 2. Japanese strategy called for "no Japanese survivors." They planned not to survive. 3. Japanese strategy was for each soldier to kill 10 Americans before they themselves are killed. |
| What kind of revenge did Hitler show when Reinhard Heydrick was murdered? | In the village of Lidice, every man (190) was machine gunned down. The 195 women were sent to concentration camps. The 82 children were scattered abroad and sent to re-educational camps. Every trace of Lidice was destroyed, and the ground plowed flat. |
| Shuttle bombing | round the clock bombing of Germany. Planes took off from England, dropped their bombs on Germany, landed in North Africa for rest and more bombs. They took off from North Africa, went back to England by way of Germany, dropping more bombs. |
| Miracle at Dunkirk | Germans invaded Belgium. The Allies pulled back to Dunkerque, on the coast of France. They were pushed further and further back until they were on the beach. The Germans were behind them and the water was in front of them. They were sitting ducks! Then came Operation Dynamo. A strange rescue fleet set out from England. Almost anything that would float (motor boats, sail boats, life boats, tug boats, etc.) manned by British citizens came across the channel. Packed beyond the limits of safety, these boats sailed back to England and then returned for more men. A great defeat was turned into a moral victory. The army was saved and would live to fight another day. |
| Navajo code | This ancient Indian code kept the Japanese from breaking the American codes in the Pacific. |
