10th Hisotry WWII
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- leader of Russia; more ruthless than Hitler
- Joseph Stalin
- leader of Great Britain; democracy
- Winston Churchill
- chancellor of Germany, leader of Nazi party
- Adolf Hitler
- president of U.S. had polio
- Franklin Roosevelt
- came to power in Italy; set up brutal gov't
- Benito Mussilini
- state should have a strong leader and everyone should obey him
- Facism
- giving into German demands in order to prevent war
- appeasement
- "lightning war"; speed vital; want to create panic and confusion
- Blitzkrieg
- the Ger. attack in the West May 10-22, want to push army to Eng. Chanel
- Plan Yellow
- hundreds of ships sent across Eng. channel to save French Soldiers
- Operation Dynamo
- Ger. invasion of Poland, tore Polish army to pieces
- Plan White
- Port where British and French troops were trapped and looked doomed until Germany stopped
- Dunkirk
- codename for the building of the atomic bomb
- Manhatten Project
- name for the Ger. air force
- Luftwaffe
- leader of Luftwaffe; one of Hitler's most imp. men
- Herman Goering
- head of African Korps for Germany also konwn as "desert fox"; very smart
- Irwin Rommel
- 1939 over 1/2 of military officers were killed by Hitler, kept very secret
- Purges
- city Hitler was going to wipe off the face of the earth
- Leningrad
- followed the army around-killing squads-killed all survivors
- Einsatzgruppen
- worst march for any POW; killed almost half the soldiers in it..very little water...60 miles
- Bataan Death March
- date Pearl Harbor took place
- December 7, 1941
- devised plan for Pearl Harbor
- Admiral Yamamoto
- D-Day; allied attack on German occupied France
- Operation Overlord
- worst beach to be on during D-Day
- Omaha Beach
- lead the D-Day attack became pres.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- bloodiest battle fot he war
- Flaise
- led assassination attemped on Hitler w/ a bomb..hitler escaped w/ only a few scratches
- Count Von Stauffenberg
- Christmas 1944; Hitler launched massive counter attack-surprise-their army got U.S. uniforms and sneaked into camp
- Battle of the Bulge
- Victory in Europe; May 7, 1945-Ger. surrenders
- VE Day
- name of the first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshim
- Little Boy
- led the Manhatten Project
- Robert Oppenheimer
- set up to help support World peace
- United Nations
- nuclear arms race w/ russia
- Cold War
- the "perfect" German race
- Aryan
- first ship blown up in Pearl Harbor
- The Arizona
- 2 sites of the atomic bombs
- Hiroshima and Nagasake
- final battle of Pacific; fanatical fighting
- Okinawa
- auto-biography Hitler wrote
- Mein Kamf
- arrest and execution of all SA leaders
- Knight of the Long Knives
- U.S. intercepts Jap. on their way to Midway Island; fought almost entirely by aircraft
- Midway
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German street police-controlled occupied territories
-made ppl obey Nazi rules - Gestapo
- Germany tried to destroy Britain Moral by bombing day and night-huge failure
- Battle of Britain
- Germany was going to cut off all supplies from Britain, almost worked
- Battle of the Atlantic
- German attack on Russia
- Operation Barbarossa
- Where Russia stopped German advancements...many people died
- Stalingrad