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| Phony War | Britain and France waited behind the Maginot Line for the German attack in the winter of '39-'40 in what became known as the... |
| Miracle of Dunkirk | When 300,000 British soldiers were rescued from the approaching German army |
| Maginot Line | A line of fortifications on France's eastern border built as a defense against a German invasion |
| Battle of Britain | Hitler's constant bombardment of England's airforce, cities, and industrial cities |
| London Blitz | The 57 consecutive nights of German bombing of this capital city |
| Lend-Lease | A plan passed by Congress allowing the US to loan war materials |
| Operation Barbarossa | Germany's failed invasion of the USSR |
| Blitzkrieg | Germany's lightning fast and effective invasion technique |
| Luftwaffe | Germany's airforce |
| Royal Air Force | The Heroes of the Battle of Britain |
| Island Hopping | The American strategy in the Pacific to get them closer to the Japanese mainland with the fewest amount of casualties |
| Operation Sea Lion | Germany's failed invasion of England |
| Vichy | The puppet gov't in France that collaborated with the Nazis |
| The Big 3 | Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt |