Key Terms
The American defeat of Mussolini in 1943.
What is the Invasion of Italy?
The Normandy Invasion is also often called this.
What is D-Day?
Was a warning to the Soviets (and a tactic for ending the war in the Pacific).
What is the atomic bomb? (Hiroshima & Nagasaki)
Was bombed during the attack on Dresden.
What is Germany?
This event wiped one of the Allies out before the war ever began.
What was the Battle of France?
The Russo-Finnish war before WW2 officially began.
What was the Winter War?
Eliminated one of Hitler's most important allies.
What was the Invasion of Italy?
Not defeated by German bombing in 1940.
What is Britain?
DAILY DOUBLE: The German airforce.
What is Luftwaffe?
Attack on a German city viewed as retaliation for the bombing of London.
What is the Bombing of Dresden?
Germany's first defeat on the Eastern Front.
What is Operation Barbarossa?
This Allied Victory halted the German efforts to conquer Europe.
What is the Battle of Britain?
What is Japan (Okinawa)?
The strategic deployment of US troops from location to location to get closer to targets in the Pacific.
The first WW2 battle won through blitzkrieg.
What is the Battle of France?
The last major battle in the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Battle of Okinawa?
Forced German retreat (definitively ended the "expansion" phase of the war).
What is the Battle of El Alamein?
Where the Japanese troops rounded up and marched prisoners to their death.
What is the Philippines? (Bataan Death March)
Bombing that focused on buildings and military targets.
What is strategic bombing?
This battle (actually 2 battles) involved the defeat of the Panzer Army (German & Italian army in Africa).
What was the Battle of el Alamein?
Also called Operation Sea Lion.
What was the Battle of Britain?
What was the Battle of Okinawa?
Where Axis and Allied powers clashed in Africa.
What is Egypt (Battle of El Alamein)?