WWII Leaders
Rallied the British people during World War II and led his country from the brink of defeat to victory.
As prime minister, he oversaw British involvement in the Allied war effort against the Axis powers.
Winston Churchill
German liked to ______ a lot of ships.
sink
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as
D-Day
In the night of 23-24 August 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union signed a __________ pact., known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The countries agreed that they would not attack each other and secretly divided the countries that lay between them.
non-agression
a political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.
Facism
Rejected socialism (even though he was once a socialist)
Organized veterans and other discontented Italians into the Fascist party
Mussolini
Which countries were apart of the Axis Powers?
Germany, Italy, and Japan
Blitzkrieg
The ________, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.
Holocaust
The ________ Airmen were a group of African American military pilots and airmen who fought in World War II.
Tuskegee
Third Reich = His reign where he boasted the Aryan master race would dominate Europe for 1,000 years
He launched a lot of public works projects (building highways and housing, replanting forests) to help economy
Within a year, he was dictator of Germany and created a one-party state.
Hitler
What event ended the United States neutrality and was the "last straw" for them entering the war?
Pearl Harbor
From 7 September 1940, London was systematically bombed by the Luftwaffe for 56 of the following 57 days and nights. Notable attacks included a large daylight attack against London on 15 September, a large raid on December 29 1940 against London resulting in a firestorm known as the Second Great Fire of London. What is this known as?
London Blitz
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- After Lenin died in 1924, he turned the Soviet Union into a totalitarian state controlled by a powerful and complex bureaucracy.
- Five Year Plan
Stalin
Tripartite Pact
Agreement between ______, _______ and ______. The agreement stated that if the US Declared war on any of the 3 countries, the other two would come to their aid.
Japan, Germany and Italy
The Battle of the ______, also known as the Ardennes Offensive, was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II.
The Allies won. The Germans suffered more than 100,000 casualties; the Americans approximately 81,000.
Buldge
In the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps, women received ____ than men. Meaning in ranks, pay, and benefits.
less
Who did the U.S. declare war on December 8, 1941?
Japan
In his January 1941 State of the Union Address—often called the Four Freedoms speech—_________ cast the war as a fight for four universal human freedoms, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
__________ was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe.
FDR; Dwight Eisenhower
Which countries were apart of the Allied Forces?
Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union
____ - Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945, marking the official end of World War II in Europe in the Eastern Front.
VE-Day
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