People
German dictator who was one of the main causes of WWII
Adolf Hitler
Treaty that formally ended WWI
Treaty of Versailles
In 1939, Germany made a treaty with this country
Russia, Soviet Union
Operation Overlord
Battle that was a turning point in the Pacific
Battle of Midway
British Prime Minister and military officer during WWII
Winston Churchill
A diplomatic policy of making concessions to aggressive power to avoid conflict
Appeasement
Countries that were members of the Allied powers
Britain, US, France, and Russia
Germany broke their pact with the USSR and invaded Russia in an operation called
Operation Barbarossa
Russian forces repelled a German attack in this important battle
Battle of Stalingrad
American president who served from 1933 - 1945
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
The country Germany invaded that began WWII
Poland
Fast moving military strategy created by the Nazis and Germany
The two Japanese cities that the atomic bombs were dropped on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Battle that was a last ditch effort by the Germans to push the Allies back to the Atlantic
Prime Minister and dictator of Japan during WWII
Hideki Tojo
The attack on Pearl Harbor spurred what country to join the war?
The United States
Strategy used by Japan to take control of islands in the Pacific
Island-Hopping
The day Germany conceded defeat
VE-Day
The largest seaborne invasion in history, done by the Allies
Invasion of Normandy (D-day)
Japanese emperor who brung Japan into WWII
Hirohito
What place did Germany remilitarize, transgressing the Treaty of Versailles?
The Rhineland
Agreement that let Hitler take the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia
Munich Agreement
This man became president in the wake of FDR's death
Harry S.Truman
Day the United States decided to join the war
December 8th