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Unit VIII G5 & G6
Unit VIII G5
| Term | ID |
|---|---|
| "phony war" | -period of time in which no battles occurred in the war -ended when Germany invaded Denmark and Norway |
| Maginot Line | -French wall of defense on it's border with Germany -was believed to avoid German invasion |
| "miracle of Dunkirk" | -evacuation of allies from the beaches of Dunkirk -allowed hundreds of thousands of troops to escape |
| Winston Churchill | -Prime Minister of England during WWII -elected after previous prime minister focused on apeasement |
| Battle of Britain | -The air invasion of Britain by Germany -originally attacking military posts, but failed when they changed directions and attacked cities |
| Pearl Harbor | -preemptive strike of Japanese on Pearl Harbor (Hawaii, USA) -resulted in US declaring war on Japan |
| Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere | -The Japanese controlled islands occupied and controlled by Japan. -Used to give Japan resources for the war |
| Grand Alliance | -side against the Axis powers -Included USA, USSR, and Great Britain |
| Erwin Rommel | -German General sent to North Africa after the defeat of Italian troops there -accompanied by Afrika Corp, although they never fully controlled north Africa |
| Afrika Corp | -German military sent to take control of North Africa -Was able to break through British defense in Egypt, but never fully control North Africa |
| Stalingrad | |
| Battle of Midway | |
| Normandy | -aka D-day was the invasion of Great Britain and USA on German controlled France -Invasion on coast of France from sea which was the largest seaborne invasion in history |
| Battle of Kursk | |
| The Holocaust | -Mass murder and mistreatment of Jews by Nazi Germany in WWII. -responsible for the deaths of 6 million+ Jews and strongly supported by Adolf Hitler |
| Final Solution | |
| Ensatzgruppen | |
| Auschwitz | -largest death camp of the holocaust where majority of Jews were killed -a part of Hitler's antisemitist initiative |
| Wannsee Conference | |
| gas chambers | |
| Luftwaffe | |
| the Blitz | |
| Dresden | |
| Allied Strategic Bombing Survey | |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | |
| Manhattan Project | |
| Big Three | |
| Yalta | |
| Potsdam |
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