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Who led Britain to victory in WW 2
Who led the French resistance against Nazi Germany in WW 2
Who was one of Germany’s most respected military leaders in WW 2
Who was the commander-in-chief of the combined fleet during WW 2
Who led the massive invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe that began on D-day
What battle started July 10, 1940 and ended October 31, 1940
Which battle occurred only six months after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the battle of the Coral sea
What battle was the largest confrontation of WW 2 where Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union
A declaration of principles issued in August 1941 by British prime minister Winston Churchill and U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt, on which the Allied peace plan at the end of World War 2 was based
To the Nazis, the Germanic peoples who formed a “master race”
A 1944–1945 battle in which Allied forces turned back the last major German offensive of World War 2
“Lightning War”— a form of warfare in which surprise attacks with fast-moving airplanes are followed by massive attacks with infantry forces
June 6, 1944– the day on which the Allies began their invasion of the European mainland during World War 2
A reduction in a country’s ability to wage war, achieved by disbanding its armed forces and prohibiting it from acquiring weapons
The process of creating a government elected by the people
Hitler’s program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people
The systematic killing of an entire people
City neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live
A mass slaughter of Jews and other civilians, carried out by the Nazi government of Germany before and during World War 2
During World War 2, Japanese suicide pilots trained to sink Allied ships by crashing bomb-filled planes into them
“Night of Broken Glass”— the night of November 9, 1938, on which Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues throughout Germany
An agreement in which nations promise not to attack one another
A series of court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany, after World War 2, in which Nazi leaders were tried for aggression, violations of the rules of war, and crimes against humanity
U.S. naval base in Hawaii attacked by the japanese, Dec. 7, 1941, precipitating U.S. entry into World War 2
U.S. general who commanded Allied forces in the Pacific, during the Battle of Guadalcanal

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