Dictators & Heroes
Hitler's European partner in crime
Benito Mussolini
The Germans weren't prepared for the harsh winter
Stalingrad
Lightening quick German battle tactic
Blitzkrieg
Beginning of the war began here
Poland
FDR & Churchill met to plan their strategy
Casablanca Conference
Leader of the American troops in the Philippines
Douglas Macarthur
First naval battle carried out entirely by the air
Coral Sea
American strategy in the Pacific
Island Hopping
Luftwaffe attack on Great Britain
London Blitz
Became part of the Allies after beginning the war on the side of the Axis powers.
Soviet Union
British Prime Minister who stood up to the Nazis
Winston Churchill
Largest counter offensive by the Germans
Battle of the Bulge
Operation that was full of hot air
Fortitude
Brought the United States into WW II
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
American development of the atomic bomb
Manhattan Project
Responsible for millions of deaths in Gulags
Joseph Stalin
The use of Navajo code breakers led to this surprise victory in the Pacific that "turned the tide"
Midway
Thousands of ________ took over factories & jobs in America to help win the war.
women
Hitler's betrayal
Stalingrad
The meeting of Allied leaders to discuss final stages of the war
Yalta Conference
Led the United Staes through the Great Depression & WW II
F.D.R.
Italians fully surrender to the Allied Forces.
Battle of Anzio
Atomic bomb dropped on these two cities led to the Japanese surrender
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Allied attack on June 6, 1944
D-Day
Country that lost the most soldiers & civilians during the war
Soviet Union