People (Allies)
President of The U.S. at this time. Winston talked to him on the phone about ships in the "Darkest Hour".
FDR or Franklin D. Roosevelt
The man who started to invade surrounding areas of Germany. Built up the economy, manufacturing and amassed a massive armed force. Had backstabbed the Russians.
Adolf Hitler
The forest in France that the Germans pushed through. It came as a "surprise" to the French.
Defensive fortifications the French made in planning where the Germans would invade. The word line is apart of this answer
Ardennes Forest. Maginot Line.
Capital of Russia, the German armed forces stopped just short of this city.
Moscow.
What was Operation Barbarossa?
Germany's invasion of Russia. Breaking the Non-aggression pact.
Ruthless Tyrant who threw numerous bodies at an invasion force. Also responsible for starving over 4 million Ukrainian people from 1932-1933.
Joesph Stalin
Leader of the Luftwaffe.
Hermann Göring
This was where the British forces were encircled in France. 200,000 men were left to defend themselves in hopes of rescue from mainland England. Civilian boats ended up reliving the troops.
Dunkirk.
1,000,000 People starved in this city. It was laid under siege, and Stalin refused a mass evacuation in order to protect his image and ego
Leningrad
What's the importance of Sept 1. 1939
Invasion of Poland AKA start of WW2.
This man took over the position of prime minister from Neville Chamberlin. Had a fiery speech called they shall fight on the beaches.
Winston Churchill
The Desert Fox, lead troops in Africa. One the best generals in the War.
Erwin Rommel.
Hitler's war strategy for invading Poland and France. Known as Lightning war.
Blitzkrieg.
Hitler and Stalin used this country for food, while letting these people starve. The Hunger Plans/ Games were used here as well.
Ukraine.
Hitler's philosophy to overtake land, and territory. Belief of taking land from inferior people to help build a superpower.
Lebensraum
The force of British soldiers sent to France after Great Britain declared war on Germany in 1939. (BEF)
British Expeditionary Force
#2 in Command, The almost "mastermind" behind the Holocaust. Commander of the S.S. guard.
Heinrich Himmler
The Act signed by FDR to help "lend" supplies to Allied nations. Started in 1941.
The shared interests, goals, and outcomes of World War 2 between the UK (Great Britain) and the U.S.
Lend Lease. Atlantic Charter.
Great Britain had tried to help a Scandinavian Country repel the Germans, which country was it?
Norway
Why did Hitler's Invasion Fail?
Arrogance, Ignorance, ill Equipped troops, the sheer will power of the Russian people, Stalin's ruthlessness, Russia's ability to move their industry out of German scope, WINTER
Name of the Operation to save men from Dunkirk. In the Darkest Hour it was supposedly named after a fan manufacturer. *Dynamic name
Operation Dynamo
The man behind the propaganda success, Reich Minister of Propaganda. *Hint think of a Turkey
Joseph Goebbels
Name of the German Air Force
Name of the German Army
Luftwaffe
Wehrmacht
Operation Sea Lion was used for Hitler's plans to invade this country. Name the body of water that separates this country and mainland Europe. *Channel
Great Britain / U.K.
English Channel.
Deputy Führer to Hitler. Tried to negotiate peace in Scotland.
Rudolf Hess.