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A few days after German troops marched across the border into--- on September 1, 1939, the Allies declared war.
Poland
Britain and France let Hitler take the Sudetenland at the ______ Conference.
Munich
______ was president during World War II and died shortly before the war ended.
Roosevelt
The Germans called their air force the _______.
Luftwaffe
Allied troops were trapped in this place after the Germans pushed them back.
Dunkirk
The Japanese attack on ----on December 7, 1941, brought the United States into the war.
Pearl Harbor
The Allies finally achieved victory in Europe on ______.
May 8, 1945
This English prime minister tried to avoid war by giving in to Hitler’s demands.
Neville Chamberlain
What is the term for avoiding conflict by making concessions?
appeasement
The Germans suffered a great defeat here.
Stalingrad
Another name for June 6, 1944, when the Allies launched a massive invasion of France, is --
D-day
Which event occurred on September 2, 1945?
Japan surrendered and ended its involvement in the war.
the German invasion of the USSR
Operation Barbarossa
This was a series of concrete fortifications and guns on the French-German border that the Allies depended on protecting them.
the Maginot Line
This was the second city to be bombed with an atomic bomb
Nagasaki
General Erwin Rommel led German forces in ______.
Africa
A big difference between the Allies and Axis was that the Allies ______.
coordinated their efforts
gave the US president authority to offer vast military and material aid to the Allies
Lend-lease Act
the union of Austria and Germany
Anschluss
The Soviet Union invaded this country in 1939.
Finland
Hitler reoccupied this land in 1936.
Rhineland
This was the first battle to take place completely in the air.
Battle of Britain
these caused major losses to merchant shipping in the Atlantic
u-boats
lightning war
blitzkrieg
Allied commander in the Pacific
Douglas MacArthur