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- Lend-Lease
- name of the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, France and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war material between 1941 and 1945 in return for, in the case of Britain, military bases in Newfoundland, Bermuda, and the British West Indies
- Phoney war
- a phase in early World War II - in the months following the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and preceding the Battle of France in May 1940 - that was marked by a lack of major military operations in Continental Europe.
- Battle of Scheldt Esturary 1944
- The Battle of the Scheldt was a series of military operations of the First Canadian Army, led by Lieutenant General Guy Simonds. The battle took place in northern Belgium and southwestern Netherlands during World War II from October 2, 1944 to November 8, 1944[1]
- Operation Barbarossa
- the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that commenced on June 22, 1941.
- Monte Cassino
- The Battle of Monte Cassino (also known as the Battle for Rome and the Battle for Cassino) was a costly series of four battles during World War II, fought by the Allies with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome.
- Operation Sea Lion
- Germany's plan to invade the United Kingdom during World War II, beginning in 1940.
- Wolf Pack
- The term wolf pack refers to the mass-attack tactics against convoys used by German U-boats of the Kriegsmarine during the Battle of the Atlantic and submarines of the United States Navy against Japanese shipping in the Pacific Ocean in World War II.
- Operation Husky
- Invasion of Sicily
- Franklin Roosevelt
- He was a central figure of the 20th century during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war. Elected to four terms in office, he served from 1933 to 1945 and is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms.
- Bomber Command
- RAF Bomber Command was the organisation that controlled the RAF's bomber forces from 1936 to 1968. During World War II, the command destroyed a significant proportion of Nazi Germany's industries and many German cities, and in the 1960s, was at the peak of its postwar power with the V bombers and a supplemental force of Canberra light bombers.
- Wartime Price and Trade Board
- ts creation reflected the government's concern that WWI conditions of inflation and social unrest should not return.
- Luftwaffe
- generic German term for an air force.
- Lancaster Bomber
- During World War II the Lancaster was the most successful bomber used by the Royal Air Force and the Royal Canadian Air Force.